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Paola Giuliano

Research Fellow

University of California, Los Angeles

paola.giuliano@anderson.ucla.edu

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Research Interests

cultural economics labor economics political economy

Paola Giuliano is a Professor of Economics in the Global Economics and Management Group at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and holds the Chauncey J. Medberry Chair in Management. She is also Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge) and Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London).

Her main areas of research are culture and economics and political economy. She holds a B.A. from Bocconi University (Milan) and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. She received the Young Economic Award from the European Economic Association in 2004. Her research has been covered by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Forbes, Foreign Affairs, Businessweek, Time, The Economist, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Boston Globe, CNBC, KPCC and PBS.

She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in February 2006.

IZA Publications

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IZA Discussion Paper No. 18583

Sticky Traditions: Origin, Persistence, and Evolution of Cultural Norms

Paola Giuliano

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17110

Aggregate Shocks and the Formation of Preferences and Beliefs

Paola Giuliano, Antonio Spilimbergo

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2025, 62 (2), 542–597

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16877

Beliefs That Entertain

Ashvin Gandhi, Paola Giuliano, Eric Guan, Quinn Keefer, Chase McDonald, Michaela Pagel, Joshua Tasoff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15422

What Motivates Leaders to Invest in Nation-Building?

Paola Giuliano, Bryony Reich, Alessandro Riboni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14738

Herding, Warfare, and a Culture of Honor: Global Evidence

Yiming Cao, Benjamin Enke, Armin Falk, Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14196

Diversity in Schools: Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students

David N. Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Riccardo Marchingiglio, Umut Ozek, Paola Sapienza

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2024, 91 (2), 972–1006,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14007

The Family Origin of the Math Gender Gap Is a White Affluent Phenomenon

Gaia Dossi, David N. Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Paola Sapienza

published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2021, 111, 179 - 183

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13788

Historical Data: Where to Find Them, How to Use Them

Paola Giuliano, Andrea Matranga

published in: Alberto Bisin and Giovanni Federico (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Economics, Elsevier, 2021, 95-123

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13607

Gender and Culture

Paola Giuliano

publilshed in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2020, 36 (4); 944–961

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13571

Who Voted for Trump? Populism and Social Capital

Paola Giuliano, Romain Wacziarg

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13268

The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States

Paola Giuliano, Marco Tabellini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12987

The Cultural Origin of Saving Behavior

Joan Costa-Font, Paola Giuliano, Berkay Özcan

published in: PLoS ONE, 2019, 13 (9), e0202290

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12900

The Cost of Being Too Patient

Paola Giuliano, Paola Sapienza

published in: American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2020, 110, 314-318

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12156

Born in the Family: Preferences for Boys and the Gender Gap in Math

Gaia Dossi, David N. Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Paola Sapienza

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11528

Ancestral Characteristics of Modern Populations

Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn

published in: Economic History of Developing Regions, 2018, 33 (1), 1-17

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11463

Traditional Agricultural Practices and the Sex Ratio Today

Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn

published in: PLoS ONE, 2018, 13 (1), e0190510

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10931

Gender: An Historical Perspective

Paola Giuliano

published in:Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys, and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, 645–672

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10930

Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change

Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2021, 88 (4), 1541 - 1581

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10147

Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance

David N. Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Umut Özek, Paola Sapienza

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019, 11 (4), 272-309

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9246

Culture and Institutions

Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2015, 53 (4). 898-944

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7376

Family Ties

Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano

published in Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf (eds.), Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol. 2A, The Netherlands: North Holland, pp. 177-215, 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7156

The Transmission of Democracy: From the Village to the Nation-State

Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn

published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 86-92

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6961

Trust and Cheating

Jeffrey V. Butler, Paola Giuliano, Luigi Guiso

published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (595), 1703 - 1738

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6916

Trust, Values and False Consensus

Jeffrey V. Butler, Paola Giuliano, Luigi Guiso

published in: International Economic Review, 2015, 56 (3), 889-915

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5735

On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough

Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn

published in: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2013, 128 (2), 469-530

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5502

Fertility and the Plough

Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn

published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (3), 499-503

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4747

Family Values and the Regulation of Labor

Alberto Alesina, Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc, Paola Giuliano

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 13 (4), 599-630

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4416

The Right Amount of Trust

Jeffrey V. Butler, Paola Giuliano, Luigi Guiso

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2016, 14 (6), 1155 - 1180

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4365

Growing Up in a Recession: Beliefs and the Macroeconomy

Paola Giuliano, Antonio Spilimbergo

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2014, 81 (2), 787-817 (Note: Article has been retracted by the authors because the original findings cannot be replicated, likely as a result of an inadvertent coding error)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4150

Family Ties and Political Participation

Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (5), 817-839

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4056

Preferences for Redistribution

Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano

published in: Jess Benhabib, Alberto Bisin, Matthew O. Jackson (eds.): Handbook of Social Economics, Vol. 1A, The Netherlands: North-Holland 2010, 93-131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4032

Democracy and Reforms

Paola Giuliano, Prachi Mishra, Antonio Spilimbergo

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2013, 5(4), 179-204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2858

Where Has All the Money Gone? Foreign Aid and the Quest for Growth

Santanu Chatterjee, Paola Giuliano, Ilker Kaya

published as 'Where Has All the Money Gone? Foreign Aid and the Composition of Government Spending' in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2012, 12 (1), Article 26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2768

Like Mother Like Son? Experimental Evidence on the Transmission of Values from Parents to Children

Marco Cipriani, Paola Giuliano, Olivier Jeanne

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 90, 100-111

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2750

The Power of the Family

Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano

published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2010, 15 (2), 93-125

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2229

Genetic, Cultural and Geographical Distances

Paola Giuliano, Antonio Spilimbergo, Giovanni Tonon

published as 'Genetic Distance, Transportation Costs, and Trade' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2014, 14 (1), 179-198