PhD graduate Alessandra Moresi awarded the 2024 SIE prize for doctoral thesis in Economics

We are thrilled to announce that Alessandra Moresi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Turin, PhD at the Vilfredo Pareto Doctoral Program in Economics, is one of the winners of the SIE Prize for the best doctoral thesis in Economics for 2024.

This annual prize, awarded by the Italian Society of Economics (SIE), recognizes outstanding research contributions from young economists and promotes the dissemination of their work, aligning with SIE’s mission to advance the quality of economic research in Italy.

The award was officially recognized during the 65th SIE Annual Scientific Meeting in Urbino in October 2024.

Moresi’s award-winning thesis, titled “Essays in Applied Microeconomics, Political Economy and Gender” provides a thorough analysis of the effects of female-led protests on the supply of female politicians, and of the electoral impact of politician’s moral communication on social media. Her award-winning contribution focuses on the 2017 Women’s March, the largest single-day progressive feminist protest in U.S. history, organized in response to the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president in 2016. Moresi’s research examines how geographic exposure to this event influenced the participation of women in subsequent partisan primaries and affected election probabilities. Her findings reveal that progressive feminism leads to the entrance of conservative women into politics, but it does not directly cause the election of more female politicians.

Learn more about Alessandra Moresi’s research at: https://sites.google.com/view/alessandramoresi-com/home

Learn more about the prize at: https://www.siecon.org/it/premi/premio-sie-tesi-di-dottorato-di-ricerca-campo-economico-2024