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Biography

Dr Gaia Dossi is a postdoctoral research fellow at the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre in the Department of Economics at UCL, 2024-25. She will become an Assistant Professor at the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance, Rome, in 2025.

Publications

Blog

How emigration shapes the diffusion of new technologies

The diffusion of new technologies across countries is a key driver of productivity growth and economic progress. Yet surprisingly, little is known about how technology moves across borders. Our research provides new evid... Read more...

Davide M. Coluccia and Gaia Dossi

26 April 2025

Blog

How emigration shapes the diffusion of new technologies

A central driver of economic growth is new technology. Gaia Dossi and Davide Coluccia show how migrants from Britain to the US in the late 19th and early 20th century not only brought new ideas with them but helped US in... Read more...

Davide M. Coluccia and Gaia Dossi

04 April 2025

CEP discussion papers

Return innovation: The knowledge spillovers of the British migration to the United States, 1870-1940

This paper documents that out-migration promotes the diffusion of innovation from the country of destination to the country of origin of migrants. Between 1870 and 1940, nearly four million British immigrants settled in ... Read more...

Davide M. Coluccia and Gaia Dossi

27 January 2025

CEP discussion papers

Political ideology and innovation

We study the role of political ideology for a critical group of economic agents: inventors. We document that, in "politically polarizing" fields, inventors patent innovations aligned with their political beliefs. We cons... Read more...

Gaia Dossi and Marta Morando

19 December 2023

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance

In brief... The pandemic of 1918: effects on religiosity and innovation

When faced with catastrophic events, do people turn to religion or science? Enrico Berkes, Davide Coluccia, Gaia Dossi and Mara Squicciarini find that both reactions can occur at the same time: people affected by the flu... Read more...

Enrico Berkes, Davide M. Coluccia, Gaia Dossi and Mara P. Squicciarini

20 October 2023

CEP discussion papers

Dealing with adversity: religiosity or science? Evidence from the great influenza pandemic

How do societies respond to adversity? After a negative shock, separate strands of research document either an increase in religiosity or a boost in innovation efforts. In this paper, we show that both reactions can occu... Read more...

Enrico Berkes, Davide M. Coluccia, Gaia Dossi and Mara P. Squicciarini

15 June 2023

Blog

The 1918 flu pandemic made some people more religious, and others, more innovative.

Enrico Berkes, Davide Coluccia, Gaia Dossi and Mara Squicciarini investigate whether a destructive event - such as a pandemic - leads to either an increase in religiosity or a boost in innovation efforts. They find that ... Read more...

Enrico Berkes, Davide M. Coluccia, Gaia Dossi and Mara P. Squicciarini

24 May 2023

Journal article

The Family Origin of the Math Gender Gap is a White Affluent Phenomenon

Previous research has shown that norms around the role of women in society could help explain the gender gap in mathematics and that these norms could be transmitted within the family. Using data from the Florida Departm... Read more...

Gaia Dossi, David Figlio, Paola Giuliano and Paola Sapienza

01 May 2021

Journal article

Born in the family: Preferences for boys and the gender gap in math

We study the effect of preferences for boys on the performance in mathematics of girls, using evidence from two different data sources. In our first set of results, we identify families with a preference for boys by usin... Read more...

Gaia Dossi, David Figlio, Paola Giuliano and Paola Sapienza

01 March 2021