Marta Morando

I am a PhD candidate in Economics at the London School of Economics, where I am affiliated with STICERD and the Programme on Cohesive Capitalism. I work on topics related to political economy, labour, organization, and innovation.

You can find my CV here.

Research In Progress

Polarized Technologies (with Gaia Dossi)

Funding: STICERD, Hayek, and Phelan US Centre Grants at LSE

We document that inventors patent and cite technologies aligned with the views of their political party. We link inventors to U.S. voter registration data and map politically polarized issues to technologies. Compared to Republicans, Democrats are one-third more likely to patent technologies addressing climate change mitigation or women’s reproductive health, and one-third less likely to patent weapons. These findings hold across patent and inventor returns, organization characteristics, and within assignees. A similar pattern holds in the diffusion of innovation: Republicans and Democrats are on average 20% differently likely to cite polarized technologies.

Teaching

Microeconomics I (EC1A3) for undergraduate students

Econometrics I (EC1C1) for undergraduate students
Winner of LSE Teaching Award (based on student ratings)

Quantitative Methods for Public Policy (PP402) for Executive Master in Public Policy students

Introduction to Statistics (PP430E) for Executive Master of Public Administration and Policy students

Introduction to Quantitative Methods (PP408) for Master of Public Administration students

Coding and Mathematics Bootcamp (PP407) for Master in Data Science for Policy students