I am an economic historian working on human capital, labour markets, and the long-run origins of inequality. My research examines how pre-industrial institutions governing skill formation and transmission shaped wage inequality and economic opportunity across European cities between the late medieval and early modern periods.
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, an External Research Fellow of the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy at Bocconi University. I am also a member of the Centre for Economics, Policy and History (CEPH), an all-Ireland centre of excellence linking Queen’s University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin.
I completed my PhD in Economic History at Queen’s University Belfast, where I was supervised by Prof. John Turner and Dr. Arcangelo Dimico. You can find my CV here or reach me at alessandro.brioschi@santannapisa.it.
Before moving to Belfast, I completed my BA and MSc at Bocconi University in Milan - where I also developed an inexplicable fondness for fifteenth-century Italian notarial records.
