Staff Profile:Professor Marina Della Giusta
- Name:
- Professor Marina Della Giusta
- Job Title:
- Professor
- Responsibilities:
- School Diversity and Inclusion Lead
- Convenor Introductory Microeconomics and History of Economic Thought
Biography:
I am a Professor of Economics at the University of Reading, which I joined after my doctorate in 2001. I was the Head of Department from 2013 to 2016 and is now the Deputy Chair of the CHUDE committee of the Royal Economic Society and a member of both the Women Committee and the Communications and Engagement Committee, where I am promoting initiatives surrounding both the communication and teaching of economics and the advancement of women in the profession, within and outside academia. I am involved in evaluation and advisory boards for the European Commission, advises corporates on diversity issues and has been involved in the evaluation of the international development and projects (UN-Inter-American Development Bank, UN-ECLAC), of government policy in the UK (Home Office) and of regional policy. She has given various academic and public talks, and regularly collaborates with national and international media.
Qualifications:
- PhD University of Reading
- MSc Economic Development, University of Reading
- Laurea cum laude (First Class Honours) Economics, University of Venice
- Areas of Interest:
Behavioural and labour economics, with particular focus on gender, stigma and social norms. Recent research focusses on bias (conscious and unconscious), interventions to redress disadvantage in education, the evolution of gender preferences and their role in individual and collective outcomes, and the use of both big social data and board games to understand economic behaviour.
Research Supervision:
Gender norms, gender and diversity in education and labour markets, policy evaluation
- Research groups / Centres:
- Behavioural Economics Research Cluster
- Labour and Household Economics Research Cluster
- Centre for Institutions and Economic History
Research grants / Awards:
- Horizon2020 IN-HABIT (2020-2025) - (inclusive Health and wellbeing in small and medium size cities). CI and Workpackage Leader WP6 Enabling behaviour change with a focus on gender and diversity. Four peripheral small and medium size cities (SMSCs) - Cordoba (Spain), Riga (Latvia), Lucca (Italy) and Nitra (Slovakia) - will take the leadership to develop the needed innovation actions to foster Inclusive Health and Wellbeing (IHW) in SMSCs with a focus on gender and diversity. IN-HABIT visionary solutions consist on the innovative mobilisation of existing undervalued resources to increase IHW (culture, food, human-animal bonds and environment), combining cultural, digital, nature based and social innovations in selected urban public spaces.
- Pearson Publishing, Contrasting Unconscious Bias in Education (CUBE) (2020-2022) Design, implement and evaluate via randomised control trial a programme of unconscious bias training for primary school teachers in four countries (UK, Germany, Italy and Spain, with 300 teachers and 1000 students per country)
- Rebuilding Macroeconomics - Assessing the Impact of REG on Academic Macroeconomics (2020) The project seeks to establish how the Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise affects the production of knowledge in macroeconomics, whether the REF create a monoculture of ideas and what is the impact of the REF on career incentives, particularly for young scholars.
Affiliations:
- IZA Fellow
- Visiting Professor University of Turin
- Visiting Fellow Collegio Carlo Alberto
- Publications:
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2020
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Della Giusta, M.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3959-4451 and Bosworth, S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8978-9516 (2020) Bias and discrimination: what do we know? Oxford Review of Economic Policy. ISSN 1460-2121 (In Press)
- Della Giusta, M., Jaworska, S. and Vukadinovic Greetham, D. (2020) Expert communication on Twitter: comparing economists and scientists’ social networks, topics and communicative styles. Public Understanding of Science, 30 (1). pp. 75-90. ISSN 1361-6609 doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662520957252
2017
- Della Giusta, M., Di Tommaso, M. L. and Jewell, S. (2017) Stigma and risky behaviors among male clients of sex workers in the UK in 2001. Feminist Economics, 23 (3). pp. 23-48. ISSN 1466-4372 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2016.1203453
- Della Giusta, M., Hashimzade, N. and Myles, G. D. (2017) Schooling and the intergenerational transmission of values. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 19 (1). pp. 1-17. ISSN 1467-9779 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jpet.12184
- Della Giusta, M., Di Tommaso, M. L. and Jewell, S. L. (2017) Men buying sex. Differences between urban and rural areas in UK. Urban Studies, 54 (3). pp. 713-729. ISSN 1360-063X doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098016645267
- Bettio, F., Della Giusta, M. and Di Tommaso, M. L., eds. (2017) Sex work and trafficking: moving beyond dichotomies. Feminist Economics, 23 (3). Taylor & Francis, pp. 1-22. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2017.1330547
2016
- Della Giusta, M., Di Tommaso, M. L. and Jewell, S. L. (2016) Stigma and risky behaviors among clients of prostitutes. In: Cunningham, S. and Shah, M. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Prostitution. Oxford University Press.
2015
- Della Giusta, M. and Jewell, S. (2015) Unpaid work and conformity: why care? Cambridge Journal of Economics, 39 (3). pp. 689-710. ISSN 1464-3545 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beu061
- Fernandez, A., Della Giusta, M. and Kambhampati, U. (2015) The intrinsic value of agency: the case of Indonesia. World Development, 70 (C). pp. 92-107. ISSN 0305-750X doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.12.020
2014
- Casson, M. and Della Giusta, M. (2014) Buzz-words in business and management studies. In: Chell, E. and Karatas-ozkan, M. (eds.) Handbook of Research on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 38-53. ISBN 9781849809238
2013
- Casson, M. and Della Giusta, M. (2013) Buzz-words in international management education. In: Tsang, D., Kazeroony, H. H. and Ellis, G. (eds.) Routledge Companion to International Management Education. Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 344-357. ISBN 9780415783149
2011
- Della Giusta, M., Jewell, S. L. and Kambhampati, U. S. (2011) Gender and life satisfaction in the UK. Feminist Economics, 17 (3). pp. 1-34. ISSN 1466-4372 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2011.582028
2010
- Casson, M. C., Della Giusta, M. and Kambhampati, U. S. (2010) Formal and informal institutions and development. World Development, 38 (2). pp. 137-141. ISSN 0305-750X doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.10.008
- Della Giusta, M. (2010) Simulating the impact of regulation changes on the market for prostitution services. European Journal of Law and Economics, 29 (1). pp. 1-14. ISSN 0929-1261 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10657-009-9105-y
2009
- Della Giusta, M., Di Tommaso, M. L., Shima, I. and Strøm, S. (2009) What money buys: clients of street sex workers in the US. Applied Economics, 41 (18). pp. 2261-2277. ISSN 1466-4283 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840701222561
- Della Giusta, M., Di Tommaso, M. L. and Strøm, S. (2009) Who is watching? The market for prostitution services. Journal of Population Economics, 22 (2). pp. 501-516. ISSN 1432-1475 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-007-0136-9
2008
- Della Giusta, M. (2008) A theory of trust based systems of intermediation. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 32 (1). pp. 65-81. ISSN 1464-3545 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bem019
- Della Giusta, M. and Munro, V. (2008) Demanding sex: critical reflections on the regulation of prostitution. Ashgate. ISBN 9780754671503
- Casson, M. and Della Giusta, M. (2008) The Economics of Networks. Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781847203656
- Della Giusta, M., Di Tommaso, M. and Strom, S. (2008) Sex markets: a denied industry. IAFFE advances in feminist economics. Routledge, London, pp112. ISBN 9780415397179
- Della Giusta, M. (2008) Social exclusion and development. In: Desai, V. and Potter, R. B. (eds.) The companion to development studies. 2nd edition. Hodder Education, London. ISBN 9780340889145
2007
- Casson, M. and Della Giusta, M. (2007) Entrepreneurship and social capital: analysing the impact of social networks on entrepreneurial activity from a rational action perspective. International Small Business Journal, 25 (3). pp. 220-244. ISSN 1741-2870 doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0266242607076524
2006
- Della Giusta, M. and Phillips, C. (2006) Women entrepreneurs in the Gambia: challenges and opportunities. Journal of International Development, 18 (8). pp. 1051-1064. ISSN 0954-1748 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.1279
- Della Giusta, M. and Phillips, C. (2006) Women entrepreneurs in the Gambia: challenges and opportunities. Journal of International Development, 18 (8). pp. 1051-1064. ISSN 1099-1328 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.1279
- Della Giusta, M. and King, Z. (2006) Enterprise culture. In: Casson, M., Yeung, B., Bassus, A. and Wadeson, N. (eds.) The Oxford handbook of entrepreneurship. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 629-647. ISBN 9780199288984
- Della Giusta, M. and Kambhampati, U. (2006) Women migrant workers in the UK: social capital, well-being and integration. Journal of International Development, 18 (6). pp. 819-833. ISSN 0954-1748 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.1316
- Della Giusta, M., Kambhampati, U. S. and Wade, R. H., eds. (2006) Critical perspectives on globalization. The globalization of the world economy series. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp688. ISBN 9781845421762
- Casson, M. and Della Giusta, M. (2006) The economics of trust. In: Bachmann, R. and Zaheer, A. (eds.) Handbook of trust research. Edward Elgar, pp. 334-356. ISBN 9781843767541
2005
- Della Giusta, M. and Scuriatti, L. (2005) The show must go on: making money glamorizing oppression. European Journal of Women’s Studies, 12 (1). pp. 31-44. ISSN 1461-7420 doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506805048854
2004
- Casson, M. and Della Giusta, M. (2004) The costly business of trust. Development Policy Review, 22 (3). pp. 321-342. ISSN 0950-6764 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7679.2004.00252.x
2003
- Della Giusta, M. (2003) Social capital and development: issues of institutional design and trust in Mexican group-based microfinance. In: Sforzi, F. (ed.) The institutions of local development. Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 93-114. ISBN 9780754632474
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