Leonardo Ridolfi is Associate Professor of Economic History. He holds a bachelor's degree in History from the University of Pisa and a master's degree in Economics from the University of Pisa and the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa. He also earned his PhD in Economics from IMT Lucca. His research analyzes long-term economic growth, pre-industrial labor markets, the causes and consequences of technological change, and the accumulation of human capital on economic development. His work has been published, among the others, in international journals such as the Journal of Economic History, the European Review of Economic History, and Cliometrica. Since January 2024 he is Associate Editor of Cliometrica.
RIDOLFI LEONARDO
Presentation
Office hours
Office hours are held on Tuesday from 11.00 to 13.00. Students are pleased to contact me via email to fix a meeting.
Curriculum Vitae
Teaching activities
Completion accademic year: 2026/2027
Completion accademic year: 2025/2026
Completion accademic year: 2024/2025
Research
Ultime pubblicazioni:
- Ridolfi, L. (2026). The Contribution of Payments in-Kind to Pre-Industrial Workers’ Remunerations: Evidence from Florence and its Countryside.. In Giulio Ongaro, Judy Z. Stephenson, Luca Mocarelli (a cura di), A Historical Casebook of Wage Formation (pp. 223-242). Cham : Palgrave Macmillan [10.1007/978-3-031-91930-5_9]. - view more
- Ridolfi, L. (2026). Beyond average wages: wage inequality in Medieval England, 1300–1514. CLIOMETRICA, 20(2), 417-480 [10.1007/s11698-026-00331-3]. - view more
- Buscemi, T., Ridolfi, L. (2026). The Decline of a Fully Matured Economy: Rural and Urban Real Wages in the Republic of Venice, 1390–1790. EUROPEAN REVIEW OF ECONOMIC HISTORY [10.1093/ereh/heag002]. - view more
- Ridolfi, L. (2025). Leandro Prados de la Escosura. A Millennial View of Spain’s Development. Essays in Economic History. INVESTIGACIONES DE HISTORIA ECONÓMICA, 21(1), 167-169 [10.33231/j.ihe.2025.01.07]. - view more
- Cappelli, G., Ridolfi, L., Vasta, M., Westberg, J. (2025). Human capital in Europe, 1830s–1930s: A general survey. JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SURVEYS, 39(2), 453-488 [10.1111/joes.12589]. - view more