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  1. Wealth inequality and epidemics in the Republic of Venice (1400–1800)

    Article • The Economic History Review, September 2025, Wiley

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  2. A comparison of income inequality in the Roman and Chinese Han empires

    Article • Nature Communications, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  3. Long-term trends in income and wealth inequality in southern Italy. The Kingdom of Naples (Apulia), sixteenth to eighteenth centuries

    Article • Explorations in Economic History, January 2025, Elsevier

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  4. Social and economic mobility in preindustrial Europe

    Article • January 2025, Firenze University Press

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  5. Round table comments

    Article • January 2025, Firenze University Press

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  6. Inequality in history: A long‐run view

    Article • Journal of Economic Surveys, March 2024, Wiley

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  7. Income and inequality in the Aztec Empire on the eve of the Spanish conquest

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  8. Pandemics and socio-economic status. Evidence from the plague of 1630 in northern Italy

    Article • Population Studies, May 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  9. A step forward toward solving the main mysteries in the history of plague?

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  10. Wealth inequality in pre‐industrial England: A long‐term view (late thirteenth to sixteenth centuries)

    Article • The Economic History Review, March 2022, Wiley

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  11. Epidemics, Inequality, and Poverty in Preindustrial and Early Industrial Times

    Article • Journal of Economic Literature, March 2022, American Economic Association

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  12. Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300–1850

    Article • The Journal of Economic History, January 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  13. The growing number of given names as a clue to the beginning of the demographic transition in Europe

    Article • Demographic Research, July 2021, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  14. Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Times: Europe and Beyond

    Article • Journal of Economic Literature, March 2021, American Economic Association

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  15. Epidemics and trust: The case of the Spanish Flu

    Article • Health Economics, February 2021, Wiley

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  16. Economic inequality in preindustrial Europe, 1300-1800: methods and results from the EINITE project

    Article • January 2020, Firenze University Press

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  17. Plague and long‐term development: the lasting effects of the 1629–30 epidemic on the Italian cities

    Article • The Economic History Review, March 2019, Wiley

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  18. The Lion's Share

    Article • February 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  19. Income Inequality in French West Africa: Building Social Tables for Pre-Independence Senegal and Ivory Coast

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2019, Elsevier

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  20. Giniinc: A Stata Package for Measuring Inequality from Incomplete Income and Survival Data

    Article • September 2018, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  21. The timing and causes of famines in Europe

    Article • Nature Sustainability, June 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  22. A survival analysis of the last great European plagues: The case of Nonantola (Northern Italy) in 1630

    Article • Population Studies, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  23. La peste : bref état des connaissances actuelles

    Article • Annales de Démographie Historique, January 2018, CAIRN

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  24. Famine in European History

    Article • August 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  25. Long‐term trends in economic inequality: the case of the Florentine state, c. 1300–1800

    Article • The Economic History Review, March 2017, Wiley

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  26. First signs of transition: The parallel decline of early baptism and early mortality in the province of Padua (northeast Italy), 1816‒1870

    Article • Demographic Research, March 2017, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  27. Plague and Lethal Epidemics in the Pre-Industrial World

    Article • The Journal of Economic History, February 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  28. Las familias y la elección de padrinos y madrinas de bautizo en la Europa católica en la Edad Moderna. Balance y perspectivas de investigación

    Article • Revista de Historia Moderna, October 2016, Publicaciones Universidad de Alicante

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  29. The rich in historical perspective: evidence for preindustrial Europe (ca. 1300–1800)

    Article • Cliometrica, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  30. Growing apart in early modern Europe? A comparison of inequality trends in Italy and the Low Countries, 1500–1800

    Article • Explorations in Economic History, October 2016, Elsevier

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  31. Daniel R. Curtis, Coping with Crisis. The Resilience and Vulnerability of Pre-Industrial Settlements (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014). Pages xix + 381. £72.00 hardback.

    Article • Continuity and Change, May 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  32. La mesure du lien familial : développement et diversification d’un champ de recherches

    Article • Annales de Démographie Historique, January 2016, CAIRN

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  33. Economic Inequality in Northwestern Italy: A Long-Term View (Fourteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

    Article • The Journal of Economic History, December 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  34. Estimating Sampling Selection Bias in Human Genetics: A Phenomenological Approach

    Article • PLOS One, October 2015, PLOS

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  35. Consequences of a universal European demographic transition on regional and global population distributions

    Article • Technological Forecasting and Social Change, September 2015, Elsevier

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  36. Plague in seventeenth-century Europe and the decline of Italy: an epidemiological hypothesis

    Article • European Review of Economic History, June 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  37. Social Customs and Demographic Change: The Case of Godparenthood in Catholic Europe

    Article • Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, September 2012, Wiley

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  38. Spiritual Kinship in Europe, 1500–1900

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  39. Entrepreneurs, formalization of social ties, and trustbuilding in Europe (fourteenth to twentieth centuries)1

    Article • The Economic History Review, July 2011, Wiley

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  40. La famine de 1590 en Italie du Nord. Une analyse de la plus grande « crise systémique » du XVIe siècle

    Article • Histoire & Mesure, July 2011, OpenEdition

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  41. Climate, population and famine in Northern Italy: General Tendencies and Malthusian Crisis, ca. 1450-1800

    Article • Annales de Démographie Historique, July 2011, CAIRN

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  42. Wealth Inequalities and Population Dynamics in Early Modern Northern Italy

    Article • Journal of Interdisciplinary History, April 2010, The MIT Press

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  43. The effects of plague on the distribution of property: Ivrea, Northern Italy 1630

    Article • Population Studies, March 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  44. Fêtes du baptême et publicité des réseaux sociaux en Europe occidentale

    Article • Annales de Démographie Historique, January 2009, CAIRN

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  45. Households and Plague in Early Modern Italy

    Article • Journal of Interdisciplinary History, October 2007, The MIT Press

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  46. Court History and Career Analysis: A Prosopographic Approach to the Court of Renaissance Ferrara

    Article • The Court Historian, June 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  47. Population and environment in Northern Italy during the sixteenth century

    Article • Population (English Edition), January 2007, CAIRN

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  48. La famille spirituelle des prêtres en Italie septentrionale avant et après le Concile de Trente : caractéristiques et transformations d'un instrument d'intégration sociale

    Article • Annales de Démographie Historique, January 2004, CAIRN

    Prof. Guido Alfani

  49. Spiritual kinship and godparenthood

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Guido Alfani