PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
  1. G. Cappelli, J. Westberg (2025). “Gender inequality and occupational segregation in white collar-jobs in the early “quiet revolution”: new evidence from the wages of Swedish teachers (c. 1890).” European Review of Economic History (early view). 
  2. M. Bozzano, G. Cappelli and M. Vasta (2024). "Whither education? The long shadow of pre-unification school systems into Italy’s Liberal Age (1861 – 1911)." The Journal of Economic History 84 (1): 149-190. 
  3. G. Cappelli, L. Ridolfi, M. Vasta, and J. Westberg (2023). "Human capital in Europe, 1830s–1930s: A general survey."  Journal of Economic Surveys (early view).
  4. G. Cappelli, L. Ridolfi, and M. Vasta (2023). "Human Capital in a Historical Perspective." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (online): https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190625979.013.520. 
  5. F. J. Beltrán Tapia, G. Cappelli. (2023). "Missing girls in Liberal Italy, 1861-1921." The Economic History Review 77 (1): 185-211. 
  6. G. Cappelli and J. Baten (2021). "Numeracy development in Africa: new evidence from a long-term perspective (1730-1970)." Journal of Development Economics, 150 (C). 
  7. G. Cappelli and G. Quiroga (2021). "Female teachers and the rise of primary education in Italy and Spain, 1861 – 1921: evidence from a new dataset." The Economic History Review 74 (3), 754-783 .
  8. G. Cappelli and M. Vasta (2021). "A “Silent Revolution”: school reforms and Italy’s educational gender gap in the Liberal Age (1861-1921)." Cliometrica 15 (1), 203-229.
  9. G. Cappelli and C. Ciccarelli (2020). "Italy’s History of Education: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach." Rivista di storia economica 36 (2), 127-137.  
  10. G. Cappelli (2020). "The Primary Education System in Imperial Austria: Vice or Virtue? A Review of Schooling under Control by Tomáš Cvrček." Central Europe 18 (2), 122-130. 
  11. G. Cappelli and G. Quiroga (2020). "Literacy and schooling in Italy and Spain (1860-1921): a comparative analysis." Rivista di storia economica 36 (1), 87-123.  
  12. G. Cappelli (2020). "Quite a visible hand? State funding and primary education in 19th-century France and Italy." Revue d'economie politique 130 (1), 77-105. 
  13. G. Cappelli and M. Vasta (2020). "Can school centralization foster human capital accumulation? A quasi-experiment from early twentieth-century Italy." The Economic History Review 73 (1), 159-184.
  14. G. Cappelli, E. Felice, D. Tirado, J. Martínez-Galarraga (2019). “Still a long way to go: decomposing GDP inequality across Italy’s regions, 1871-2011.” Rivista di storia economica 35 (1), 3-35.
  15. J. Westberg and G. Cappelli (2019). “Divergent paths to mass schooling at Europe’s poles? Regional differences in Italy and Sweden, 1840-1900.” Bildungsgeschichte 9 (1), 11-28.
  16. G. Cappelli (2018). “Was Putnam Wrong? The Determinants of Social Capital in Italy Around 1900.” Rivista di storia economica, a. XXXIII, n. 3, dicembre 2017: 277-313.
  17. G. Cappelli (2018). “When theory met data: economic history and the ‘truth(s)’ of quantitative research”. Bildungsgeschichte 8 (2), 214-217.
  18. G. Cappelli and J. Baten (2017). “European Trade, Colonialism and Human Capital Accumulation in Senegal, Gambia and Western Mali, 1770 – 1900.” The Journal of Economic History 77 (3): 920-951.
  19. G. Cappelli (2017). “The Missing Link? Trust, Cooperative Norms, and Industrial Growth in Italy.” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Winter 2017, 47 (3): 333-358.
  20. G. Cappelli (2016). “One size that didn’t fit all? Electoral franchise, fiscal capacity and the rise of mass schooling across Italy’s provinces, 1870–1911.” Cliometrica 10 (3): 311-343.
  21. G. Cappelli (2016). “Escaping from a human capital trap? Italy’s regions and the move to centralized primary schooling, 1861 – 1936.” European Review of Economic History 20 (1): 46-65.
BOOKS
  1. D. Mitch and G. Cappelli (eds.) (2019). Globalization and the Rise of Mass Education. London, Palgrave Macmillan.
  2. G. Cappelli (2018). La formazione del capitale umano e del capitale sociale nello sviluppo economico italiano (1861-1913). Pisa: Pisa University Press.
BOOK CHAPTERS 
  1. G. Cappelli and Michelangelo Vasta (2021). "Il capitale umano: il fattore mancante dello sviluppo economico italiano." in F. Amatori and M. D'Alberti (eds.), L’impresa italiana, vol. II (Temi e problemi), Rome, Istituto dell'enciclopedia italiana, 673-690. 
  2. G. Cappelli and D. Mitch (2019). "Introduction", in D. Mitch and G. Cappelli (eds), Globalization and the Rise of Mass Education. London, Palgrave Macmillan.
  3. G. Cappelli (2019). “A Struggling Nation Since Its Founding? Liberal Italy and the Cost of Neglecting Primary Education,” in J. Westberg, L. Boser, I. Brühwiler (eds.), School Acts and the Rise of Mass Schooling: Education Policy in the Long Nineteenth Century. London, Palgrave Macmillan.
  4. G. Cappelli (2017). “Capitale umano e crescita economica: l’evoluzione del sistema educativo italiano,” in Paolo Di Martino and Michelangelo Vasta (eds.), Ricchi per caso. La parabola dello sviluppo economico italiano. Bologna, il Mulino.