Elena Esposito
Rita Levi Montalcini Researcher at ESOMAS, Department of Economics, University of Torino
Collegio Carlo Alberto, Affiliate and CEPR
E-mail: e.esposito@unito.it
ORCID: 0000-0001-5331-4992
Fields: economic growth and development, political economy, economic history
Publications
Reconciliation Narratives: The Birth of a Nation after the US Civil War, with Tiziano Rotesi, Alessandro Saia and Mathias Thoenig (last version: pdf) (2023) , American Economic Review 113 (6), 1461-1504.
Side Effects of Immunities: African Slavery in the US South (last version: pdf, appendix) (2022), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 14 (3), 290-328
Malaria and Chinese Economic Activities in Africa, with Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde and Song Yuan (2022), Journal of Development Economics 154 : 102739.
Epidemic Shocks and Civil Violence: Evidence from Malaria Outbreaks in Africa, with Matteo Cervellati and Uwe Sunde (last version: pdf, appendix) (2022), Review of Economics and Statistics 104.4 : 780-796.
The European coal curse, with Scott F. Abramson (last version: pdf, appendix) (2021), Journal of Economic Growth 26, 77-112
Long-term Exposure to Malaria and Violence in Africa, with Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde and Simona Valmori) (2018), Economic Policy 33.95 : 403-446.
Working Papers
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) R&R at the Journal of the European Economic Association.
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.
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)