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Dr Davide  Luca

Dr Davide Luca

Visiting Senior Fellow

International Inequalities Institute

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Languages
English
Key Expertise
Inequalities, Public Policy, Cities, Jobs, Economic Change

About me

Dr Davide Luca is an Assistant Professor in Regional Economics at the University of Cambridge. His research is interdisciplinary, and focuses on the interactions between territorial inequality, socioeconomic outcomes, and public policy delivery. Before joining Cambridge University, Dr Davide Luca was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and worked for the European Commission. He holds a PhD in Economic Geography from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

At the International Inequalities Institute, he is involved in the Cities, Jobs and Economic Change theme. In particular, he is involved in a series of joint projects with Professor Neil Lee exploring the contextual effects of place on individual social, economic, and political attitudes.

Expertise Details

Inequalities; Public Policy; Cities; Jobs; Economic Change

Recent Publications

  • Trevisan, F., Vaughan, M. & Vromen, A. (2025). Story Tech: Power, Storytelling, and Social Change Advocacy. University of Michigan Press. 
  • Vaughan, M. & Schieferdecker, D. (2025), 'Seeing a New Type of Economic Inequality Discourse: Inequality as Spectacle in the “Billionaire Space Race”', International Journal of Communication, 19 (1), 348-369 
  • Vaughan, M., & Kerr, S. (2025). Visual representations of wealth inequality in political communication. Visual Communication.
  • Vaughan, M., Gruber, J. B., & Langer, A. I. (2025). The tension between connective action and platformisation: Disconnected action in the GameStop short squeeze. New Media & Society, 27(2), 632-654.