Mattia Fochesato

Mattia Fochesato is an economic historian in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University and a research affiliate at the Dondena Centre and BIDSA. His research focuses on the long-run determinants of income and wealth distribution across different world regions.

He is currently working on a project examining the long-term effects of demographic change on labor relations and income distribution in late medieval and early modern Europe. He also collaborates with leading international archaeologists on a project on the global history of wealth inequality, investigating the technological and institutional drivers of wealth distribution in ancient societies.