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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 “La Sapienza”. She has worked as consultant for European Commission, European Parliament and OECD, and for several Italian institutions. She is among the founders of Minerva - Laboratory on Gender Diversity and Gender Inequality and the association Economia Civile.

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 European Network of Gender Equality Experts. Since March 2017 she is the editor of the International Review of Sociology.

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How Academic Conformity Punishes Women—and Restricts the Diversity of Economic Ideas

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

Skewed measures of “research output” hold back women who think differently or study smaller subfields in economics—and it’s 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’ 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 “he-cession”, men would have been hit the most by the economic recession induced by the financial crisis. Shortly thereafter, in the “she-austerity” 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 – already high pre-existing – 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.