Latest publications
A note on the measurement of poverty persistence, Economics Letters, forthcoming.
Welfare Poverty Measurement, Journal of Human Developement and Capabilities, forthcoming.
The Precedence function: A numerical evaluation method for multicriteria ranking problems, Economic Theory Bulletin, forthcoming.
Non-working workers. The Spanish labour market under Covid-19, Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, forthcoming (joint with J.I. García-Pérez).
The Social Cost of Unemployment by Types of Workers, In R. Baikady et al (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Social Global Problems, Palgrave, Macmillan, 2022.
Dealing with Categorical Data in a Multidimensional Context. The Multidimensional Balanced Worth, Social Science Research, vol. 26, Article 102561, 2021 (with C. Herrero).
Opportunity advantage between income distributions, Journal of Economic Inequality, Online July 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-021-09488-5 (with C. Herrero).
Group decisions from individual rankings: The Borda-Condorcet rule, European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 291, pp. 757-765, 2021 (with. C. Herrero).
Educational achievements in the OECD according to PISA 2018, Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, vol. 7(9), pp. 486-498 (with R. Martínez).
Tracking progress towards accessible, green and efficient energy: The Inclusive Green Energy index, Applied Energy, (with C. Herrero, J. Pineda & E. Zambrano). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261920311879
A synthetic indicator on the impact of COVID-19 on the community’s health, PLOS ONE, 15 (9), 2020: e0238970 (with C. Herrero). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238970
The cost of unemployment from a social welfare approach: the case of Spain and its regions, Social Indicators Research, vol. 150, pp. 955-976, 2020 (with S. De la Rica y L. Gorjón).
Formación Superior y Mercado Laboral: La Universidad Española frente a la Cuarta Revolución Industrial, Papeles de Economía Española, nº 166, pp. 105-122, 2020.
On the Wondrous Behaviour of Rats and Researchers, Modern Economy, vol. 11, pp. 10-16, 2020.
Green Economy Measurements and Indicators, Chapter 10, in: Eaton, D., & Sheng, F. (Eds.) (2019), Inclusive Green Economy: Policies and Practice, Dubai, Shanghai: Zayed International Foundation for the Environment & Tongji University (with C. Herrero, J. Pineda y E. Zambrano).
Population structure and the Human Development Index, Social Indicators Research, vol. 141, pp. 731-763, 2019 (with C. Herrero and R. Martínez).
Rendimiento, Equidad y Calidad: El desarrollo educativo en España según PISA 2015, Cuadernos Económicos, 2018, nº 95, pp. 79-97.
Human Development and Poverty: Theoretical Approaches, in C. D’Ambrosio (Ed), Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-being, Edward Elgar, 2018, pp. 104-125 (with S. Seth).
Human Development and Poverty: Empirical Findings, in C. D’Ambrosio (Ed), Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-being, Edward Elgar, 2018, pp. 126-152 (with S. Seth).
The Balanced Worth: A procedure to evaluate performance in terms of ordered attributes, Social Indicators Research, vol. 140, pp. 1279-1300, 2018 (with C. Herrero).
The Herrero-Villar Approach to Citation Impact, Journal of Informetrics, vol. 11, pp. 625-640, 2017 (with P. Albarrán, C. Herrero & J. Ruiz-Castillo).
Performance, Inclusion and Excellence: An Index of Educational Achievements for PISA, Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, vol. 4, pp. 100-125, 2017.