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Giulia Buccione

  • Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Stanford King Center on Global Development

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Research affiliates

Giulia Buccione is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford's King Center on Global Development. In October 2025, Giulia will join CEMFI as an Assistant Professor of Economics. Giulia holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University.

Giulia's research interests are in Development Economics, Environmental Economics and Cultural Economics, with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa.  

Giulia is interested in the interaction between cultural norms and the process of economic development. As part of this agenda, Giulia is currently working on field experiments to test how culturally grounded policies can alleviate constraints to development. Specifically, Giulia's ongoing projects target water scarcity in Egypt and Jordan, and religious tension in Lebanon. My research is being supported by the International Growth Centre and the J-PAL Egypt Impact Lab.

Projects

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Religious leaders, water scarcity, and collective adaptation: Evidence from Jordan

Giulia Buccione 31 Mar 2024
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The socio-economic impact of water scarcity: Evidence from Jordan

Giulia Buccione, Lydia Assouad, Emma Smith 1 May 2026
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All contributions

Mujib Dam, Jordan

Water roundtable: Adapting to water scarcity in Jordan

21–23 January 2025 Ministry of Water and Irrigation, First Floor, Amman, Jordan
Past Event
A woman stands behind a sitting man next to a cistern and a mural on a temporary shelter showing a dripping tap with a caption reading in Arabic "Water = Life", at the Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan.
Gender equality

How religion can encourage women to conserve water in Jordan

Giulia Buccione, Camilla Sacchetto, Salma Shaheen
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