Paola Giuliano
Paola Giuliano (Catania ,24 september 1972) is an economist and currently the Justice Elwood Lui Endowed Term Chair in Management Professor of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. Giuliano is a research affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, a research fellow at the Institute of Labour Economics (IZA) and a research associate at the NBER. In 2004, she won the Young Economic Award from the European Economic Association, which has also elected her fellow. Career and education. She obtained an B.A. and M.A. from Bocconi University and a Ph.D in economics from the  University of California, Berkeley in 2003. From 2003 to 2008, she was an economist at the International Monetary Fund. During her tenure at the IMF, she was also a visiting scholar at Harvard University from 2006 to 2008. In 2008, she joined the Anderson School of Management at UCLA where she stayed until now. In 2016-2017 she was a Visiting Associate Professor at Harvard University. Research. Giuliano mainly researches Cultural Economics, Social Economics and Political Economy. Her works have been cited over 8900 times and she is the 78th most influential woman in economics according to her citation count  on IDEAS. She has published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Review of Economics Studies and the Journal of the European Economic Association. Her work on culture has been recognized in the profession and she was asked to write a review article on "Culture and Institutions" in the Journal of Economics Literature along with Alberto Alesina. Her research has been featured in Washington Post, Financial Times, The Guardian, New York Times, The Economist, Corriere della Sera, Le Figaro, Forbes and CNBC.