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Carlo Ciccarelli
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Economic historian at @DEF_TorVergata, Rome, Program coordinator @MscEEBL at @DEF_TorVergata, @cage_warwick

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Carlo Ciccarelli @carciccar.bsky.social · Apr 6
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10th ASE annual meeting - Venice
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Carlo Ciccarelli @carciccar.bsky.social · Jul 16
Open Access here academic.oup.com/ereh/advance...
The Effects of Italy’s Unification on Its Dual Development: A Synthetic Control Approach
Abstract. There is a long-standing debate on the effect of Italian unification (1861) on the country’s dual development. We estimate the causal impact of u
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Reposted by Kris Inwood

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Carlo Ciccarelli @carciccar.bsky.social · Jun 29
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A cold case (over 160 years old): The effects of unification on Italy’s North-South divide
Few economic debates have lasted as long as the 160-year debate concerning the effects of Italian unification on the economies of Italy’s South and North. This column proposes a way to move the argument forward. The authors estimate the causal effects of unification on the agricultural share, literacy rates, and railway density in the South and the Centre-North using a rigorous counterfactual framework. Their findings challenge the idea that unification increased Italy’s North-South divide. In fact, neither region experienced widespread benefits from the unified state.
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Reposted by Sascha O. Becker, Matthias Doepke, Carlo Ciccarelli

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · Jun 14
More than 450 million Europeans. 29 countries. 1 shared freedom.

In 2025, we mark 40 years since the Schengen Agreement was signed.

This landmark event has reshaped how over 450 million Europeans live, work and travel.
Photo of Menton, a town on the border between France and Italy © Adobe Stock, Freesurf River Dunajec in the Pieniny Mountains on the border of Slovakia and Poland © Adobe Stock, Laura Douro river with Saucelle Dam on the border between Spain and Portugal © Adobe Stock, anetlanda View over steep slopes at the Ischgl/Samnaun ski resort on the Swiss-Austrian border © Adobe Stock, Leonid Tit
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Carlo Ciccarelli @carciccar.bsky.social · May 14
14 May 2025 - The one and only Alessandro Nuvolari, shedding light on the origins of the British Industrial Revolution for my European Economic History students at the University of Rome Tor Vergata

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Carlo Ciccarelli @carciccar.bsky.social · May 4
Forthcoming, with minor edits, in the Journal of Economic History
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Bank of Italy - No. 54 - Napoleonic Administrative Reforms and Development in the Italian Mezzogiorno
Napoleonic reforms, local administrative hierarchy, development
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Reposted by Carlo Ciccarelli

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Rivista di Storia Economica - Italian Review of Economic History @rivstoriaecon.bsky.social · May 4
📣📣 Ths special issue on Colonial Legacy in South Asia, guest edited by Tirthankar Roy and Maanik Nath, is now online!

🔗 www.rivisteweb.it/issn/0393-34...

#SouthAsia #ColonialLegacy #EconomicHistory #DevelopmentStudies #HealthHistory #LegalHistory #NewPublication
Rivisteweb: Rivista di storia economica: 1, aprile 2025
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Carlo Ciccarelli @carciccar.bsky.social · Mar 30
Our results question the robustness of the current theoretical consensus on the “little divergence” and suggest an alternative hypothesis: north-western Europe saw faster Smithian growth than the rest of Europe after 1500."
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Carlo Ciccarelli @carciccar.bsky.social · Mar 30
..the Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Spain and Sweden, with Groth and Persson’s (2016) general equilibrium model.
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Carlo Ciccarelli @carciccar.bsky.social · Mar 30
Abstract (1/3) "To address growing concerns on the representativeness of real wages, we generate new estimates of GDP pc in pre-industrial England and Italy, as well as new exploratory estimates for Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, ...
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Carlo Ciccarelli @carciccar.bsky.social · Mar 30
...little moments of academic bliss...

"..Thank you for submitting your manuscript to Explorations in Economic History. I am pleased to inform you that your manuscript has been accepted for publication"

"Smithian growth in the little divergence: a general equilibrium analysis" (with D. Chilosi)
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The European Historical Economics Society @theehes.bsky.social · Mar 25
New advanced article:

The Effects of Italy’s Unification on Its Dual Development: A Synthetic Control Approach

By G. Barone, D. Chilosi, C. Ciccarelli (@carciccar.bsky.social) and G. de Blasio.

doi.org/10.1093/ereh...
The Effects of Italy’s Unification on Its Dual Development: A Synthetic Control Approach
Abstract. There is a long-standing debate on the effect of Italian unification (1861) on the country’s dual development. We estimate the causal impact of u
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Reposted by Joan Subirats, Carlo Ciccarelli

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Enric Juliana @enricjuliana.bsky.social · Mar 15
Piazza Europa
Piazza del Popolo, 15,30h.
Roma.
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Reposted by Carlo Ciccarelli

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Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke @kevinhorourke.bsky.social · Mar 1
Don't think it was Zelenskyy who was humiliated yesterday. Humiliation is something you can do to yourself. Don't think it was Ukraine that was humiliated either.

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Zelenskyy’s humiliation in the White House
Ukraine’s president finds himself squeezed between two big powers
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Reposted by Yoto V. Yotov, Carlo Ciccarelli, Zambia

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Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke @kevinhorourke.bsky.social · Feb 28
Who will be the first to write the history of that short-lived period that began in 1989 and ended in 2025? So much hope and opportunity, so much short-sighted and incompetent leadership on all sides, and such an ugly, tragic ending.
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Carlo Ciccarelli @carciccar.bsky.social · Feb 5
ITALY: ....Our findings suggest that over the 50 years following the birth of the unified state, neither area drew generalized benefits from unification.....

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The Effects of Italy’s Unification on Its Dual Development: A Synthetic Control Approach
Abstract. There is a long-standing debate on the effect of Italian unification (1861) on the country’s dual development. We estimate the causal impact of u
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Carlo Ciccarelli @carciccar.bsky.social · Feb 3
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CfP: RSE/IREH Fast Track Review
The Rivista di Storia Economica / Italian Review of Economic History (RSE/IREH) aims to promote fresh research on economic history covering a wide range of countries, periods, and methods. To this aim...
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Carlo Ciccarelli @carciccar.bsky.social · Dec 15
DEF Tor Vergata Rome - Sant'Anna Pisa

"2024 Rome Workshop on Transport and History - Pushing the Frontiers of Data, Measurement, and Outcomes"

December 19, 20 - 2024 Tor Vergata Rome

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Special issue EREH - Deadline 1 March 2025
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2024 Rome Workshop on Transport and History
Pushing the Frontiers of Data, Measurement, and Outcomes will be held at the Department of Economics and Finance of the University of Rome Tor Vergata
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Carlo Ciccarelli @carciccar.bsky.social · Dec 13
Dan Bogart "Global Transport History" next Mon 2-5PM, Tue 10AM-1PM, Wed 2-5PM. A course for our PhD students at Rome Tor Vergata. Email me to get the link and follow online.

Reposted by Carlo Ciccarelli, Marco Sanfilippo

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Alberto Bisin @albertobisin.bsky.social · Dec 12
The UniCredit Foundation (unicreditgroup.eu) has just launched new contests for research grants:
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Carlo Ciccarelli @carciccar.bsky.social · Dec 4
The effects of Italy’s unification on its dual development: a synthetic control approach data.mendeley.com/datasets/hky... - European Review of Economic History
Replication Files - The effects of Italy’s unification on its dual development: a synthetic control approach
The files (Stata 18) allow the replication of the results presented in Barone, G., Chilosi, D., Ciccarelli, C., de Blasio, G. (2024), The effects of Italy’s unification on its dual development: a synt...
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