Marina Della Giusta

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+44 (0) 118 378 5068
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Professor
- Convenor Introductory Microeconomics and History of Economic Thought
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.Postgraduate supervision
Gender norms, gender and diversity in education and labour markets, policy evaluationResearch centres and groups
Background
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.
Awards and honours
- 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.
Professional bodies/affiliations
- IZA Fellow
- Visiting Professor University of Turin
- Visiting Fellow Collegio Carlo Alberto
Websites/blogs
Personal WebsitePublications
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Clot, S.
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Della Giusta, M.
ORCID: 0000-0003-3959-4451 , Jewell, S.
ORCID: 0000-0002-4413-6618 (2021) Once good, always good? Testing nudge’s spillovers on pro environmental behavior. Environment and Behavior ISSN: 1552-390X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00139165211060524
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Della Giusta, M.
ORCID: 0000-0003-3959-4451 , Di Tommaso, M. , Jewell, S.
ORCID: 0000-0002-4413-6618 , Bettio, F. (2021) Quashing demand or changing clients? Evidence of criminalisation of sex work in the UK. Southern Economic Journal , 88 (2). pp. 527-544. ISSN: 2325-8012 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/soej.12532
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Della Giusta, M.
ORCID: 0000-0003-3959-4451 and Longhi, S.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4115-3321 (2021) Stung by pension reforms: the unequal impact of changes in state pension age on UK women and their partners. Labour Economics ISSN: 0927-5371 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2021.102049
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Della Giusta, M.
ORCID: 0000-0003-3959-4451 and Hui, N. (2021) Labor market for sex workers: stigma and occupational choice. In: Zimmermann, K. , (eds.) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer , Cham. ISBN: 9783319573656 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_63-1
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Biroli, P.
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Bosworth, S.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8978-9516 , Della Giusta, M.
ORCID: 0000-0003-3959-4451 , Di Girolamo, A. , Jaworska, S.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7465-2245 , Vollen, J. (2021) Family life in lockdown. Frontiers in Psychology , 12 ISSN: 1664-1078 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.687570
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Della Giusta, M.
ORCID: 0000-0003-3959-4451 and Bosworth, S.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8978-9516 (2020) Bias and discrimination: what do we know?. Oxford Review of Economic Policy , 36 (4). pp. 925-943. ISSN: 1460-2121 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/graa045
- Della Giusta, M. , Jaworska, S. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963662520957252
- Bettio, F. , Della Giusta, M. , Di Tommaso, M. , eds. (2017) Sex work and trafficking: moving beyond dichotomies. Feminist Economics , 23. Feminist Economics , 23 (3). pp. 1-22. ISSN: 1466-4372 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2017.1330547
- Della Giusta, M. , Di Tommaso, M. , Jewell, S. (2017) Men buying sex. Differences between urban and rural areas in UK. Urban Studies , 54 (3). pp. 713-729. ISSN: 1360-063X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098016645267
- Della Giusta, M. , Di Tommaso, M. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2016.1203453
- Della Giusta, M. , Hashimzade, N. , Myles, G. (2017) Schooling and the intergenerational transmission of values. Journal of Public Economic Theory , 19 (1). pp. 1-17. ISSN: 1467-9779 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpet.12184
- Della Giusta, M. , Di Tommaso, M. , Jewell, S. (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
- Fernandez, A. , Della Giusta, M. , Kambhampati, U. (2015) The intrinsic value of agency: the case of Indonesia. World Development , 70 (C). pp. 92-107. ISSN: 0305-750X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.12.020
- 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://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cje/beu061
- 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
- Casson, M. and Della Giusta, M. (2013) Buzz-words in international management education. In: Tsang, D. , Kazeroony, H. , Ellis, G. , (eds.) Routledge Companion to International Management Education. Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting Routledge , Abingdon. pp. 344-357. ISBN: 9780415783149
- Della Giusta, M. , Jewell, S. , Kambhampati, U. (2011) Gender and life satisfaction in the UK. Feminist Economics , 17 (3). pp. 1-34. ISSN: 1466-4372 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2011.582028
- 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://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10657-009-9105-y
- Casson, M. , Della Giusta, M. , Kambhampati, U. (2010) Formal and informal institutions and development. World Development , 38 (2). pp. 137-141. ISSN: 0305-750X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.10.008
- Della Giusta, M. , Di Tommaso, M. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00148-007-0136-9
- Della Giusta, M. , Di Tommaso, M. , Shima, I. , 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://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036840701222561
- Casson, M. and Della Giusta, M. , eds. (2008) The Economics of Networks. Edward Elgar ISBN: 9781847203656
- Della Giusta, M. and Munro, V. , eds. (2008) Demanding sex: critical reflections on the regulation of prostitution. Ashgate ISBN: 9780754671503
- Della Giusta, M. (2008) Social exclusion and development. In: Desai, V. and Potter, R. , (eds.) The companion to development studies. 2nd edition. Hodder Education , London. ISBN: 9780340889145
- Della Giusta, M. , Di Tommaso, M. , Strom, S. (2008) Sex markets: a denied industry. IAFFE advances in feminist economics Routledge , London. pp 112. ISBN: 9780415397179
- 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://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cje/bem019
- 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://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0266242607076524
- 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://dx.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: 0954-1748 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jid.1279
- 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://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jid.1316
- Della Giusta, M. , Kambhampati, U. , Wade, R. , eds. (2006) Critical perspectives on globalization. The globalization of the world economy series Edward Elgar , Cheltenham. pp 688. 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
- Della Giusta, M. and King, Z. (2006) Enterprise culture. In: Casson, M. , Yeung, B. , Bassus, A. , Wadeson, N. , (eds.) The Oxford handbook of entrepreneurship . Oxford University Press , Oxford. pp. 629-647. ISBN: 9780199288984
- 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://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350506805048854
- 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://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7679.2004.00252.x
- Della Giusta, M. (2003) Social capital and development: issues of institutional design and trust in Mexican group-based microfinance. In: Sforzi, F. , (eds.) The institutions of local development . Ashgate , Aldershot. pp. 93-114. ISBN: 9780754632474