Elena Esposito
Rita Levi Montalcini Researcher at ESOMAS, Department of Economics, University of Torino
Collegio Carlo Alberto, Affiliate
E-mail: e.esposito@unito.it
Fields: economic growth and development, political economy, economic history
Working Papers
Reconciliation Narratives: The Birth of a Nation after the US Civil War, with Tiziano Rotesi, Alessandro Saia and Mathias Thoenig (last version: pdf), Forthcoming at The American Economic Review
Bite and Divide: Malaria and Ethnolinguistic Diversity, with Matteo Cervellati and Giorgio Chiovelli, (last version: pdf, appendix)
Epidemics and Conflict: Evidence from the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa, with Ada Gonzalez-Torres (last version: pdf)
Social Adaptation to Diseases and Inequality: Historical Evidence from Malaria in Italy, with Giorgio Gulino and Paolo Buonanno (last version: pdf)
Medication Against Conflict, with Matteo Cervellati, Elena Esposito, Dominic Rohner, Uwe Sunde (last version: pdf) R&R at the Journal of Development Economics.
Publications
Side Effects of Immunities: African Slavery in the US South (last version: pdf, appendix), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022
Epidemic Shocks and Civil Violence: Evidence from Malaria Outbreaks in Africa, with Matteo Cervellati and Uwe Sunde (last version: pdf, appendix), The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021
Malaria and Chinese Economic Activities in Africa, with Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde and Song Yuan, Journal of Development Economics, 2022
The Resource Curse in the Long-Run, with Scott F. Abramson (last version: pdf, appendix), Journal of Economic Growth, 2021
Long-term Exposure to Malaria and Violence in Africa, with Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde and Simona Valmori), Economic Policy, 2018
Teaching
Università di Torino: Global Economic Scenarios (Graduate), Spatial Data (Graduate)
Université de Lausanne, HEC: Microeconomics (Undergraduate), Development Economics (Graduate)
European University Institute: Causal Inference with Spatial Data (Graduate)