ABOUT ME

Current positions 

I am an Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure) at the Department of Economic Analysis: Economic Theory and Economic History at  Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain.

At UAM, I am a co-organiser of the Research Seminars in Economics; I am affiliated to the Education and Labour Market Research Group (EDMT); and I teach in the Master in Quantitative Economic Analysis (QuEA). 

I am a Visiting Researcher at Lancaster University, UK; a Research Fellow at IZA, Bonn, Germany; an External Affiliate at HEDG, University of York, UK; and a Faculty Associate at the Canadian Centre for Health Economics (CCHE), University of Toronto, Canada; and an Adjunct Faculty at IE University, Spain.

Research interests

I have a wide range of research interests in the fields of the economics of health and human capital. Current research projects and interests include:

• the intergenerational transmission of risky beahviours (crime and consumption of addictive goods);

• the effects of health on labour supply; 

• the role of health information in health investment decisions; 

• socioeconomic causes and consequences of mental ill-health; 

• dynamic latent class models of heath care consumption; 

• selected policy issues around the opioid epidemic;

• the economics of chronic conditions; 

• the impact of COVID-19 on subjective well-being;

• the impact of noncognitive skills on educational outcomes; 

• health and energy poverty. 

Previous positions

Previously, I have been a Senior Researcher (Tomás y Valiente Fellow) at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study (MIAS), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) (2019-2024); a Lecturer and then a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor with tenure) at Lancaster University (2013-2019), UK; and a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Economics (CHE), University of York (2009-2012), UK, funded by a large Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) grant. 

I have held visiting positions at:

• Monash University, Australia (3 extended stays: 2006; 2007; 2008);

• The University of Toronto, Canada (1 visit: 2013).

• The University of Barcelona (UB), Spain (2 visits: 2014; 2015); 

• Curtin University, Australia (1 visit: 2015);

• CEMFI, Spain (1 extended stay: 2017); 

• UC3M, Spain (1 short visit: 2017); 

• University of Southern Denmark, Denmark (1 short visit: 2022).