Giulia Zacchia
Biographic Data
| ID | 6559212 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giulia Zacchia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giulia |
| FAMILY NAME | Zacchia |
| SIGNATURE | ZACCHIA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sapienza University of Rome |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0151-9184 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Women and economics in interwar Italy
A growing number of studies, primarily focusing on Anglo-Saxon countries, and North America in particular, have attempted to quantify and contextualise the contributions of women to the evolution of economic thought and ideas. These studies have outlined the unique characteristics of their contributions, such as innovative approaches or the segregation of research topics and methodologies. However, the European and Italian contexts remain poorly …
The History of Economic Thought From the Viewpoint of Hes Presidential Addresses
The History of Economics Society (HES) has traveled a long way throughout its fifty conferences, from the first one organized by Warren Samuels and Vincent Tarascio on May 30 and 31, 1973, in Chicago, to the fiftieth annual meetings that took place on June 23 to 25, 2023, in Vancouver, Canada. This journey can be analyzed in different ways, and here we focus on the presidential addresses delivered as a guide to our analysis. From the conference p…
Measuring Patriarchy in Italy
Patriarchy is an abstract concept; however, its consequences are visible and substantial in society in an endless list of events that mainly affect women's lives, but do not exclude men's life experience either. By defining a patriarchy index for Italy-for the first time ever-this article aims at describing patriarchy, from an economic perspective, as a complex aggregate, based on several stereotypes, represented by a series of variables related …
Hidden female figures in the organisation for European economic co-operation, and the reconstruction of Europe after WWII
The study of female economists during the post-World War II reconstruction of Western Europe is as yet unresearched. A small but substantial collection of publications discusses the role of male economists within the European institutions created after World War II. However, none of them analyzes contributions made by female economists. This paper aims to shed some light on female economists who participated in the reconstruction of Europe throug…
Social determinants of citations
We investigate to what extent personal proximity and similarity in professional and political attributes, besides scientific factors, help explaining citations between economists. We do so by using a unique dataset of all academic economists based in the United Kingdom, created specifically for this study by merging RePEc data on works published in the past four decades with information collected by manually processing their curriculum vitae (CVs…
Teaching Heterodox Economics in a Feminist Perspective by Using Students’ Written Diaries on Consumption
Teaching heterodox economics, under a feminist perspective, involves motivating students to add complexity to human nature, to critically reflect on the social nature of economic processes, and to recognize the coexistence of several models, challenging the mainstream idea of the existence of only one economic model, that of rational choice. This paper argues that the use of students’ written diaries can serve as a useful feminist pedagogical too…
Intersectional Gaps in Self-Efficacy among Post-Graduate Students in International Renewable-Energy Programs
Relatively little empirical research has analyzed the sources of students’ self-perceptions outside the US and Europe, and in new fields of study like renewable energy. This paper aims at filling this gap by identifying differences in self-efficacy levels of post-graduate students in Erasmus+ capacity-building programs on renewable energy in Argentinian and Guatemalan universities. We analyzed a sample of 43 students to test intersectional differ…
A Feminist Reading of Italy’s North–South Dualism in the Wake of Covid-19
Italy has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to official data by the Italian National Institute of Health (as of July 22, 2020), more than 34,000 patients, mostly elderly men, have died of COVID-19. The majority of these deaths (82 percent) are concentrated in the Northern regions. This study investigates Italy’s North–South dichotomy, exploring differences in social norms and family habits among Italian regions from a feminist per…
What Does It Take to Be Top Women Economists? An Analysis Using Rankings in RePEc
Women are substantially under-represented in the field of economics: their progress is slow and just few women reach top positions. From the 1980s, studies document the clear barriers and implicit biases in publishing, promotion, and tenure that women face. The paper aims at studying gender differences focusing on ‘excellence'. Using RePEc as a dataset, I test how different definitions of excellence can systematically advantage or disadvantage wo…
On the evolution of the glass ceiling in Italian academia
Argument Following an international trend, Italy has reformed its university system, especially concerning methods and tools for research evaluation, which are increasingly focused on a number of bibliometric indexes. To study the effects of these changes, we analyze the changing profiles of economists who have won competitions for full professorship in the last few decades in the country. We concentrate on individual characteristics and on scien…
A Case Study of Pluralism in Economics
Quantitative measures of supposed scientific ‘quality’ (or ‘impact’) based on bibliometric indicators are used as the primary or exclusive tools of research evaluation in a growing number of countries. The negative impact of this method of evaluation on pluralism in economic teaching and research has been documented in Italy, France, Australia and the United Kingdom. We provide new evidence for Italy by investigating the CVs and publications of a…
A Feminist Reading of Italy’s North–South Dualism in the Wake of Covid-19
Italy has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to official data by the Italian National Institute of Health (as of July 22, 2020), more than 34,000 patients, mostly elderly men, have died of COVID-19. The majority of these deaths (82 percent) are concentrated in the Northern regions. This study investigates Italy’s North–South dichotomy, exploring differences in social norms and family habits among Italian regions from a feminist per…
What Does It Take to Be Top Women Economists? An Analysis Using Rankings in RePEc
Women are substantially under-represented in the field of economics: their progress is slow and just few women reach top positions. From the 1980s, studies document the clear barriers and implicit biases in publishing, promotion, and tenure that women face. The paper aims at studying gender differences focusing on ‘excellence'. Using RePEc as a dataset, I test how different definitions of excellence can systematically advantage or disadvantage wo…
A Case Study of Pluralism in Economics
Quantitative measures of supposed scientific ‘quality’ (or ‘impact’) based on bibliometric indicators are used as the primary or exclusive tools of research evaluation in a growing number of countries. The negative impact of this method of evaluation on pluralism in economic teaching and research has been documented in Italy, France, Australia and the United Kingdom. We provide new evidence for Italy by investigating the CVs and publications of a…
A Case Study of Pluralism in Economics
Quantitative measures of supposed scientific ‘quality’ (or ‘impact’) based on bibliometric indicators are used as the primary or exclusive tools of research evaluation in a growing number of countries. The negative impact of this method of evaluation on pluralism in economic teaching and research has been documented in Italy, France, Australia and the United Kingdom. We provide new evidence for Italy by investigating the CVs and publications of a…
On the evolution of the glass ceiling in Italian academia
Argument Following an international trend, Italy has reformed its university system, especially concerning methods and tools for research evaluation, which are increasingly focused on a number of bibliometric indexes. To study the effects of these changes, we analyze the changing profiles of economists who have won competitions for full professorship in the last few decades in the country. We concentrate on individual characteristics and on scien…
What Does It Take to Be Top Women Economists? An Analysis Using Rankings in RePEc
Women are substantially under-represented in the field of economics: their progress is slow and just few women reach top positions. From the 1980s, studies document the clear barriers and implicit biases in publishing, promotion, and tenure that women face. The paper aims at studying gender differences focusing on ‘excellence'. Using RePEc as a dataset, I test how different definitions of excellence can systematically advantage or disadvantage wo…
Intersectional Gaps in Self-Efficacy among Post-Graduate Students in International Renewable-Energy Programs
Relatively little empirical research has analyzed the sources of students’ self-perceptions outside the US and Europe, and in new fields of study like renewable energy. This paper aims at filling this gap by identifying differences in self-efficacy levels of post-graduate students in Erasmus+ capacity-building programs on renewable energy in Argentinian and Guatemalan universities. We analyzed a sample of 43 students to test intersectional differ…
A Feminist Reading of Italy’s North–South Dualism in the Wake of Covid-19
Italy has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to official data by the Italian National Institute of Health (as of July 22, 2020), more than 34,000 patients, mostly elderly men, have died of COVID-19. The majority of these deaths (82 percent) are concentrated in the Northern regions. This study investigates Italy’s North–South dichotomy, exploring differences in social norms and family habits among Italian regions from a feminist per…
Hidden female figures in the organisation for European economic co-operation, and the reconstruction of Europe after WWII
The study of female economists during the post-World War II reconstruction of Western Europe is as yet unresearched. A small but substantial collection of publications discusses the role of male economists within the European institutions created after World War II. However, none of them analyzes contributions made by female economists. This paper aims to shed some light on female economists who participated in the reconstruction of Europe throug…
Social determinants of citations
We investigate to what extent personal proximity and similarity in professional and political attributes, besides scientific factors, help explaining citations between economists. We do so by using a unique dataset of all academic economists based in the United Kingdom, created specifically for this study by merging RePEc data on works published in the past four decades with information collected by manually processing their curriculum vitae (CVs…
Teaching Heterodox Economics in a Feminist Perspective by Using Students’ Written Diaries on Consumption
Teaching heterodox economics, under a feminist perspective, involves motivating students to add complexity to human nature, to critically reflect on the social nature of economic processes, and to recognize the coexistence of several models, challenging the mainstream idea of the existence of only one economic model, that of rational choice. This paper argues that the use of students’ written diaries can serve as a useful feminist pedagogical too…
The History of Economic Thought From the Viewpoint of Hes Presidential Addresses
The History of Economics Society (HES) has traveled a long way throughout its fifty conferences, from the first one organized by Warren Samuels and Vincent Tarascio on May 30 and 31, 1973, in Chicago, to the fiftieth annual meetings that took place on June 23 to 25, 2023, in Vancouver, Canada. This journey can be analyzed in different ways, and here we focus on the presidential addresses delivered as a guide to our analysis. From the conference p…
Measuring Patriarchy in Italy
Patriarchy is an abstract concept; however, its consequences are visible and substantial in society in an endless list of events that mainly affect women's lives, but do not exclude men's life experience either. By defining a patriarchy index for Italy-for the first time ever-this article aims at describing patriarchy, from an economic perspective, as a complex aggregate, based on several stereotypes, represented by a series of variables related …
Women and economics in interwar Italy
A growing number of studies, primarily focusing on Anglo-Saxon countries, and North America in particular, have attempted to quantify and contextualise the contributions of women to the evolution of economic thought and ideas. These studies have outlined the unique characteristics of their contributions, such as innovative approaches or the segregation of research topics and methodologies. However, the European and Italian contexts remain poorly …
Economics (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Positive economics (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economic Theory and Institutions (3 works)