Welcome to my webpage!
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 the formation and transmission of skills shaped wage inequality and economic opportunity across European cities between the late medieval and early modern periods.
I am completing 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 abrioschi01@qub.ac.uk.
From July 2026, I will be a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa. I am 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, and an External Research Fellow of the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy at Bocconi University.
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.