Paola Giuliano

About

Paola Giuliano is a professor of economics at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, holding the Chauncey J. Medberry Chair in Management. In 2025, she was appointed faculty vice chair of academic personnel. Her main areas of research are culture and economics and political economy. Giuliano holds a B.A. in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan, graduating summa cum laude in 1997, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, obtained in 2003. She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn. Her research has been widely covered by major media outlets including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Forbes, Foreign Affairs, Businessweek, Time, The Economist, The Guardian, Financial Times, the Boston Globe, CNBC, KPCC, and PBS. Giuliano teaches MBA courses in Global Macroeconomics and Managerial Economics at UCLA Anderson.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Political Science
• Economics
• Sociology
• Economic growth
• Political economy
• Demography
• Market economy
• Public administration
• Econometrics

Selected publications

• Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change

  The Review of Economic Studies · 2020 · 301 citations

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  Abstract We examine a determinant of cultural persistence that has emerged from a class of models in evolutionary anthropology: the similarity of the environment across generations. Within these models, when the environment is more stable across generations, the traits that have evolved up to the previous generation are more likely to be suitable for the current generation. In equilibrium, a greater value is placed on tradition and there is greater cultural persistence. We test this hypothesis b…

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• Nation-Building and Education

  The Economic Journal · 2021 · 105 citations

  Abstract Democracies and dictatorships have different incentives when it comes to choosing how much and by what means to homogenise the population, i.e., ‘to build a nation’. We study and compare nation-building policies under the transition from dictatorship to democracy in a model where the type of government and borders of the country are endogenous. We find that the threat of democratisation provides the strongest incentive to homogenise. We focus upon a specific nation-building policy: mass…

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• Born in the family: Preferences for boys and the gender gap in math

  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization · 2021-01-14 · 52 citations

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

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2021-01-01 · 6 citations

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• Aggregate Shocks and the Formation of Preferences and Beliefs

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01 · 5 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Alberto Alesina

  Harvard University

  263 shared

• Nathan Nunn

  150 shared

• Paola Sapienza

  149 shared

• Antonio Spilimbergo

  118 shared

• Armin Falk

  BRIQ Institute on Behavior and Inequality

  61 shared

• Pierre Cahuc

  61 shared

• Benjamin Enke

  51 shared

• Yiming Cao

  Boston University

  51 shared

Awards & honors

• Young Economic Award from the European Economic Association…
• European Economic Association Young Economist Award (2004)
• Winner of the 2013 IPUMS Research Award for 'On the Origins…

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