Mauro Rota
Biographic Data
| ID | 1201638 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mauro Rota |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mauro |
| FAMILY NAME | Rota |
| SIGNATURE | ROTA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sapienza University of Rome |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5000-884X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Public health reforms and the mortality decline in nineteenth-century Italy
This study examines the impact of Italy's 1887-8 health reforms on mortality, contributing to the historical debate on the state's role in Europe's health transition. Leveraging event-study-style difference-in-differences approach, we assess the effectiveness of the Crispi-Pagliani reforms, which strengthened public health governance and introduced targeted non-pharmaceutical interventions to mitigate deaths from infectious diseases. Mortality fr…
Institutional shocks and social capital: Evidence from the French domination in Italy
This article proposes an explanation of Italy’s economic and social divide by taking account of the institutional legacy left by French political control during the period 1796–1814. Using a new data set regarding the duration of French domination and ‘bridging’ social capital in Italy in the nineteenth century, we find that a prolonged French presence is associated with a higher level of social capital as from 1814. We suggest that the transmiss…
Italy and the little divergence in wages and prices: Evidence From Stable Employment in Rural Areas
This article presents an early modern wage index for stable rural male workers in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. These wages highlight the importance of distinguishing between locations and contract types when considering historical workers' living standards, and they speak to a longstanding debate about whether Italy's early modern downturn was purely an urban phenomenon, or an all-embracing one. Our data lend support to the former view, since we d…
Italy and the Little Divergence in Wages and Prices: New Data, New Results
We present new wage indices for skilled and unskilled construction workers in Italy. Our data avoid multiple issues pestering earlier wages, making our new indices the first consistent ones for early-modern Italy. Our improved wages, obtained from the St. Peter's Church in Rome, consolidate the view that urban Italy began a prolonged downturn during the seventeenth century. They also offer sustenance to the idea that epidemics instigated the decl…
Military spending, fiscal capacity and the democracy puzzle
Italy and the Little Divergence in Wages and Prices: New Data, New Results
We present new wage indices for skilled and unskilled construction workers in Italy. Our data avoid multiple issues pestering earlier wages, making our new indices the first consistent ones for early-modern Italy. Our improved wages, obtained from the St. Peter's Church in Rome, consolidate the view that urban Italy began a prolonged downturn during the seventeenth century. They also offer sustenance to the idea that epidemics instigated the decl…
Italy and the little divergence in wages and prices: Evidence From Stable Employment in Rural Areas
This article presents an early modern wage index for stable rural male workers in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. These wages highlight the importance of distinguishing between locations and contract types when considering historical workers' living standards, and they speak to a longstanding debate about whether Italy's early modern downturn was purely an urban phenomenon, or an all-embracing one. Our data lend support to the former view, since we d…
Institutional shocks and social capital: Evidence from the French domination in Italy
This article proposes an explanation of Italy’s economic and social divide by taking account of the institutional legacy left by French political control during the period 1796–1814. Using a new data set regarding the duration of French domination and ‘bridging’ social capital in Italy in the nineteenth century, we find that a prolonged French presence is associated with a higher level of social capital as from 1814. We suggest that the transmiss…
Public health reforms and the mortality decline in nineteenth-century Italy
This study examines the impact of Italy's 1887-8 health reforms on mortality, contributing to the historical debate on the state's role in Europe's health transition. Leveraging event-study-style difference-in-differences approach, we assess the effectiveness of the Crispi-Pagliani reforms, which strengthened public health governance and introduced targeted non-pharmaceutical interventions to mitigate deaths from infectious diseases. Mortality fr…
Military spending, fiscal capacity and the democracy puzzle
Military spending, fiscal capacity and the democracy puzzle
Italy and the Little Divergence in Wages and Prices: New Data, New Results
We present new wage indices for skilled and unskilled construction workers in Italy. Our data avoid multiple issues pestering earlier wages, making our new indices the first consistent ones for early-modern Italy. Our improved wages, obtained from the St. Peter's Church in Rome, consolidate the view that urban Italy began a prolonged downturn during the seventeenth century. They also offer sustenance to the idea that epidemics instigated the decl…
Institutional shocks and social capital: Evidence from the French domination in Italy
This article proposes an explanation of Italy’s economic and social divide by taking account of the institutional legacy left by French political control during the period 1796–1814. Using a new data set regarding the duration of French domination and ‘bridging’ social capital in Italy in the nineteenth century, we find that a prolonged French presence is associated with a higher level of social capital as from 1814. We suggest that the transmiss…
Italy and the little divergence in wages and prices: Evidence From Stable Employment in Rural Areas
This article presents an early modern wage index for stable rural male workers in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. These wages highlight the importance of distinguishing between locations and contract types when considering historical workers' living standards, and they speak to a longstanding debate about whether Italy's early modern downturn was purely an urban phenomenon, or an all-embracing one. Our data lend support to the former view, since we d…
Public health reforms and the mortality decline in nineteenth-century Italy
This study examines the impact of Italy's 1887-8 health reforms on mortality, contributing to the historical debate on the state's role in Europe's health transition. Leveraging event-study-style difference-in-differences approach, we assess the effectiveness of the Crispi-Pagliani reforms, which strengthened public health governance and introduced targeted non-pharmaceutical interventions to mitigate deaths from infectious diseases. Mortality fr…
Economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (3 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Divergence (linguistics) (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economic history (2 works) · Geography (2 works)