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Marcella Corsi

Professor of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome

Marcella Corsi is Professor of Economics at the Sapienza University of Rome. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Manchester (UK) and a degree in Statistics/Economics from University of Rome 鈥淟a Sapienza鈥�. She has worked as consultant for European Commission, European Parliament and OECD, and for several Italian institutions. She is among the founders of and the association .

Her research activity mainly focuses on issues related to Social Inclusion, Social protection and Income distribution (often in a gender perspective). In these fields of study, she is the author of several articles published in English and Italian, and she has been one of the scientific coordinators of the . Since March 2017 she is the editor of the International Review of Sociology.

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How Academic Conformity Punishes Women鈥攁nd Restricts the Diversity of Economic Ideas

Article By Marcella Corsi, Carlo D'Ippoliti, and Giulia Zacchia | Dec 14, 2017

Skewed measures of 鈥渞esearch output鈥� hold back women who think differently or study smaller subfields in economics—and it鈥檚 harming the discipline as a whole

Diversity and the Evaluation of Economic Research: The Case of Italy

Paper Conference paper | By Marcella Corsi | Oct 2017

Especially in the wake of the Great Recession, calls for more diversity within economics are usually limited to appealing for greater diversity in the economists鈥� backgrounds, while diversity of opinion and approaches is often neglected.

Explaining Dualism in a Gender Perspective: Gender, Class and the Crisis

Paper Conference paper | By Marcella Corsi | Oct 2017

In the economic literature, several scholars have addressed the narrative of a two-stage European crisis. In a first stage, the so-called 鈥渉e-cession鈥�, men would have been hit the most by the economic recession induced by the financial crisis. Shortly thereafter, in the 鈥渟he-austerity鈥� stage, women would have suffered the heaviest burdens of the fiscal retrenchment measures. If that were the case, the policy response to the crisis would be producing an increase in the 鈥� already high pre-existing 鈥� gender inequality.

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Reawakening
From the Origins of Economic Ideas to the Challenges of Our Time

Event Plenary | Oct 21–23, 2017

INET gathered hundreds of new economic thinkers in Edinburgh to discuss the past, present, and future of the economics profession.