Alumna
Biography
B.Sc. in International Economics, Management and Finance, Bocconi University, Milan, 2012
M.Sc. in Policy Studies, University of Edinburgh, 2013
M.A. in Public Policy and Social Change, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri (Italy), 2014
M.A. in Political Science, University of Washington, 2016
Beatrice Magistro is a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Washington. She holds a Bachelor of International Economics, Management and Finance from Bocconi University (Italy), a Master of Science in Policy Studies from the University of Edinburgh, a Master in Public Policy and Social Change from the Collegio Carlo Alberto (Italy) and an MA in Political Science from the University of Washington. Her fields are comparative politics, political economy and political methodology. Recently she has been working on political trust in crisis-hit European countries, and on the effects of financial and economic literacy on individual economic policy preferences in the UK and Italy.
Research
Selected Research
- Magistro, Beatrice and Menaldo, Victor A., "How Populism Harms Prosperity: Unified Populist Rule Reduces Investment, Innovation, and Productivity", Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2025. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4719671
- COVID-19 Cumulative Infection Collaborators [including Christopher Adolph, Bree Bang-Jensen, Nancy Fullman, Beatrice Magistro, Grace Reinke, Rachel Castellano, Megan Erickson, Carolyn Dapper, and Rebecca Walcott]. 2022. "Estimating Global, Regional, and National Daily and Cumulative Infections with SARS-CoV-2 through Nov 14, 2021: A Statistical Analysis." The Lancet.
- COVID-19 Excess Mortality Collaborators [including Christopher Adolph, Bree Bang-Jensen, Nancy Fullman, Beatrice Magistro, Grace Reinke, Rachel Castellano, Megan Erickson, Carolyn Dapper, and Rebecca Walcott]. 2022. "Estimating Excess Mortality Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Analysis of COVID-19-Related Mortality, 2020-21.'' The Lancet. Download PDF
- COVID-19 Forecasting Team [including Christopher Adolph, Bree Bang-Jensen, Nancy Fullman, Beatrice Magistro, Grace Reinke, Rachel Castellano, Megan Erickson, Carolyn Dapper, and Rebecca Walcott]. 2022. "Variation in the COVID-19 Infection–Fatality Ratio by Age, Time, and Geography during the Pre-Vaccine Era: A Systematic Analysis." The Lancet. Download PDF
- COVID-19 National Preparedness Collaborators [including Christopher Adolph, Bree Bang-Jensen, Nancy Fullman, Beatrice Magistro, Grace Reinke, Rachel Castellano, Megan Erickson, Carolyn Dapper, and Rebecca Walcott]. 2022. "Pandemic Preparedness and COVID-19: An Exploratory Analysis of Infection and Fatality Rates, and Contextual Factors Associated with Preparedness in 177 Countries, from Jan 1, 2020, to Sept 30, 2021." The Lancet. Download PDF
- Beatrice Magistro, Lucas Owen and Nicolas Wittstock (2021), "Populist Support, Institutional Trust, and Gender: The Impact of Foreign-Imposed Austerity During the European Debt Crisis", Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy: Vol. 2: No. 3, pp 329-346. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/113.00000040
- COVID-19 Mental Disorders Collaborators [including Christopher Adolph, Bree Bang-Jensen, Nancy Fullman, Beatrice Magistro, Grace Reinke, Rachel Castellano, Megan Erickson, Carolyn Dapper, and Rebecca Walcott]. 2021. “Estimating the Global Prevalence and Burden of Depressive and Anxiety Disorders in 204 Countries and Territories in 2020 Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.” The Lancet. 398(10312): 1700-1712. Download PDF
- Christopher Adolph, Kenya Amano, Bree Bang-Jensen, Nancy Fullman, Beatrice Magistro, Grace Reinke, Rachel Castellano, Megan Erickson, and John Wilkerson. 2021. “The Pandemic Policy U-Turn: Partisanship, Public Health, and Race in Decisions to Ease COVID-19 Social Distancing Policies in the United States.” Perspectives on Politics. Download PDF
- Christopher Adolph, Kenya Amano, Bree Bang-Jensen, Nancy Fullman, Beatrice Magistro, Grace Reinke, and John Wilkerson. 2022. “Governor Partisanship Explains the Adoption of Statewide Mask Mandates in Response to COVID-19.” State Politics & Policy Quarterly. 21(1): 24-49.
- IHME COVID-19 Forecasting Team [including Christopher Adolph, Bree Bang-Jensen, Nancy Fullman, Beatrice Magistro, and Grace Reinke]. 2021. “Modeling COVID-19 Scenarios for the United States.” Nature Medicine. 27: 94–105.
- Beatrice Magistro and Victor Menaldo. "POPULISM: A Tale of Political and Economic Catastrophe." APSA Comparative Politics Newsletter, Fall 2020, pp. 39-47. Download PDF
- DOTTI SANI, G. M. and MAGISTRO, B. "Increasingly unequal? The economic crisis, social inequalities and trust in the European Parliament in 20 European countries." European Journal of Political Research, doi: 10.1111/1475-6765.12126, 2016.