Paola, a Bocconi degree and lots of recognition
From Los Angeles to New York for a year on sabbatical leave: Paola Giuliano has taken time off from her teaching responsibilities at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where she is Associate Professor in the Department of Global Economics and Management, to dedicate all her time to research. Thanks to a scholarship she was able to enter the Russel Sage Foundation, a research center in New York which hosts scientists from a variety of fields – from economics, to psychology, to political science: "This multidisciplinarity is quite valuable, because it allows me to interact with sectors that would be inaccessible to me otherwise".
After graduating from Bocconi in 1997, Giuliano went to Berkeley for her PhD: "During my doctoral studies many professors led me to doubt traditional economic models, and this helped me develop a more creative approach to problems. At the same time, this enabled me to work in a hybrid context, with intersections between sociology, anthropology, and economics". That methodology can be witnessed in many of her works, and also in what she is currently working on: she's studying the scholastic performance of first- and second-generation immigrants, grouped according to their origins. In 2004, Paola Giuliano received the Young Economist Award: "That award was especially important due to the fact that it gave me an identity as a researcher, and so people started to think of my work in relation to a more specific field". She continued to receive awards after that, including the IPUMS Research Award in 2013, thanks to a paper on the differences in norms and beliefs about women's role in society as related to women who practiced plough agriculture, and those who did not. "Awards rarely include a monetary prize, but they almost always make you more visible in the research world, especially when you are dealing with topics that are considered less significant". Paola Giuliano is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn.
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