Elena Esposito

Working Papers and Work in Progress

• Bite and Divide: Malaria and Ethnolinguistic Diversity, with Matteo Cervellati and Giorgio Chiovelli, (last version: pdf, appendix) 

• Epidemics and Conflict:  Evidence from the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa, with Ada Gonzalez-Torres (last version: pdf)  R&R at the Journal of the European Economic Association.

• Social Adaptation to Diseases and Inequality: Historical Evidence from Malaria in Italy, with Giorgio Gulino  and Paolo Buonanno (last version: pdf) 

• When We Rebel? the Making of Subversive Identities in a Dictatorship, with Matteo Cervellati, Giacomo Plevani and Alessandro Saia

• Measuring Gender Norms using a Validated Survey Instrument, with Aron Szekely, Isabel Rodriguez, Pavan Mamidi, Sharon Barnhardt

Publications

• Public Policies for Peace, with Austin Wright (2025). Economic Policy, Forthcoming. 

• Medication Against Conflict, with Matteo Cervellati, Elena Esposito, Dominic Rohner, Uwe Sunde (last version: pdf) (2024) Journal of Development Economics, 170, 103306. 

• Reconciliation Narratives: The Birth of a Nation after the US Civil War, with Tiziano Rotesi, Alessandro Saia and Mathias Thoenig (last version: pdf) (2023) , American Economic Review 113 (6), 1461-1504.

• Side Effects of Immunities: African Slavery in the US South (last version: pdf, appendix) (2022), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 14 (3), 290-328 

• Malaria and Chinese Economic Activities in Africa, with Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde and Song Yuan (2022), Journal of Development Economics 154 : 102739. 

• Epidemic Shocks and Civil Violence: Evidence from Malaria Outbreaks in Africa, with Matteo Cervellati and Uwe Sunde (last version: pdf, appendix) (2022), Review of Economics and Statistics 104.4 : 780-796. 

• The European coal curse, with Scott F. Abramson (last version: pdf, appendix) (2021), Journal of Economic Growth 26, 77-112 

• Long-term Exposure to Malaria and Violence in Africa, with Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde and Simona Valmori) (2018), Economic Policy 33.95 : 403-446. 

• Long-term exposure to malaria and development, with Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde and Simona Valmori) (2017), Journal of Demographic Economics, 83(1), 129-148. 

Teaching

• Università di Torino: Global Economic Scenarios (Graduate), Spatial Data (Graduate)

• Université de Lausanne, HEC: Microeconomics (Undergraduate), Development Economics (Graduate)

• European University Institute: Causal Inference with Spatial Data (Graduate)