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148
Citations
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World Ranking
9
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 1989 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Overview

Alberto Alesina was affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research focused on various topics within social sciences, with main fields including sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, political science and international relations, demography, and education.

Alesina's work covered a range of interconnected subjects. The main topics examined throughout their career included:

  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
  • Fiscal Policies and Political Economy
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth

Key recent papers by Alberto Alesina included:

  • Intergenerational Mobility in Africa (2021) published in Econometrica
  • Violence Against Women: A Cross-cultural Analysis for Africa (2020) published in Economica
  • The Polarization of Reality (2020) published in AEA Papers and Proceedings
  • Nation-Building and Education (2021) published in The Economic Journal
  • Immigration and preferences for redistribution in Europe (2021) published in Journal of Economic Geography

Frequent collaborators included:

  • Stefanie Stantcheva (10 joint publications)
  • Armando Miano (8 joint publications)
  • Davide Furceri (5 joint publications)
  • Sebastian Hohmann (4 joint publications)
  • Stelios Michalopoulos (4 joint publications)

Alesina published in multiple venues, with notable frequency in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (7 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (5 publications)
  • Economica (2 publications)
  • AEA Papers and Proceedings (2 publications)
  • Nature (2 publications)

Their contributions to economics and social sciences were recognized by awards such as the Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1989 and election as Fellow of the European Economic Association, acknowledging their involvement in the academic community.

Alberto Alesina's extensive body of work addressed issues of inequality, migration, and economic policy from interdisciplinary and empirical perspectives, contributing insights across several subfields and research topics within social sciences.

Best Publications

  • Distributive Politics and Economic Growth

    Alberto Alesina;Dani Rodrik

  • Distributive Politics and Economic Growth

    Alberto F Alesina;Dani Rodrik

  • Income Distribution, Political Instability, and Investment

    Roberto Perotti;Alberto Alesina

  • Public goods and ethnic divisions

    Alberto Alesina;Reza Baqir;William Easterly

  • Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why

    Alberto Alesina;Alberto Alesina;David Dollar

  • Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance

    Alberto Alesina;Eliana La Ferrara

  • Fractionalization

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  • Political instability and economic growth

    Alberto Alesina;Alberto Alesina;Sule Ozler;Nouriel Roubini;Nouriel Roubini;Phillip Swagel

  • Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe: A World of Difference

    Alberto Alesina;Edward L. Glaeser

  • Participation in Heterogeneous Communities

    Alberto Alesina;Eliana La Ferrara

  • Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?

    Alberto Alesina;Rafael Di Tella;Robert MacCulloch

  • Central Bank Independence and Macroeconomic Performance: Some Comparative Evidence

    Alberto Alesina;Lawrence H. Summers

  • Who trusts others

    Alberto Alesina;Eliana La Ferrara

  • Culture and Institutions

    A. Alesina;Paola Giuliano

  • Why Are Stabilizations Delayed

    Alberto Alesina;Allan Drazen

  • On the Number and Size of Nations

    Alberto Alesina;Enrico Spolaore

  • Large Changes in Fiscal Policy: Taxes Versus Spending

    Alberto Francesco Alesina;Silvia Ardagna

  • Income distribution, political instability, and investment

    Alberto Alesina;Alberto Alesina;Roberto Perotti

  • A Positive Theory of Fiscal Deficits and Government Debt

    Alberto Alesina;Guido Tabellini

  • Macroeconomic Policy in a Two-party System as a Repeated Game

    Alberto Alesina

  • On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough*

    Alberto Francesco Alesina;Paola Giuliano;Nathan Nunn

  • Political Cycles and the Macroeconomy

    Alberto Alesina;Nouriel Roubini;Gerald D. Cohen

  • Fairness and redistribution

    Alberto Alesina;George-Marios Angeletos

  • Partisan Politics, Divided Government, and the Economy

    Alberto Alesina;Howard Rosenthal

  • The Size of Nations

    Alberto Alesina;Enrico Spolaore

  • Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe

    Alberto Alesina;Edward Glaeser

  • Openness, Country Size and Government

    Romain Wacziarg;Alberto Alesina

  • Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution

    Alberto Alesina;Stefanie Stantcheva;Edoardo Teso

  • Credibility and Policy Convergence in a Two-party System with Rational Voters

    Alberto Alesina

  • Fiscal expansions and adjustments in OECD countries

    Alberto Alesina;Roberto Perotti

  • Economic Integration and Political Disintegration

    Alberto Alesina;Enrico Spolaore;Romain Wacziarg

  • Work and Leisure in the United States and Europe: Why So Different?

    Alberto Alesina;Edward Glaeser;Bruce Sacerdote

  • Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions

    Alberto F. Alesina;Alberto F. Alesina;Alberto F. Alesina;William Easterly;Reza Baqir

  • The output effect of fiscal consolidation plans

    Alberto Alesina;Carlo Ambrogio Favero;Carlo Ambrogio Favero;Francesco Giavazzi

  • Political Jurisdictions in Heterogeneous Communities

    Alberto Alesina;Reza Baqir;Caroline Hoxby

  • Bureaucrats or Politicians? Part I: A Single Policy Task

    Alberto Alesina;Guido Tabellini

  • External Debt, Capital Flight and Political Risk

    Alberto Alesina;Alberto Alesina;Guido Tabellini;Guido Tabellini

  • Tales of fiscal adjustment

    Alberto Alesina;Silvia Ardagna

Frequent Co-Authors

Roberto Perotti
Roberto Perotti Bocconi University
Francesco Giavazzi
Francesco Giavazzi Bocconi University
Guido Tabellini
Guido Tabellini Bocconi University
Carlo A. Favero
Carlo A. Favero Bocconi University
Howard Rosenthal
Howard Rosenthal New York University
Edward L. Glaeser
Edward L. Glaeser Harvard University
Philippe Aghion
Philippe Aghion London School of Economics and Political Science
Eliana La Ferrara
Eliana La Ferrara Harvard University
Nouriel Roubini
Nouriel Roubini New York University
Francesco Trebbi
Francesco Trebbi University of California, Berkeley

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