Foto credits: Astrid Dünkelmann www.mpifg.de/person/110114/2733  (October 2023, Main hall MPIfG, Cologne, Germany)  

I am a postdoc at the Institute for Socio-Economics (IfSO), University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE). I am interested in political economy, labor economics and feminist economics. I am studying the gender dimensions of technological change and structural change, using Bartik-shock instruments, with a focus on segregation in employment and hours worked. I am also interested in sexual harassment in the workplace and in the intersection between LGBTQ+ economics and mental health. 

I visited the Comparative Political Economy Research Group of Prof. Dr. Baccaro at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) in Cologne during Fall 2023. At MPIfG, I worked on a project that draws on the feminist political economy of gender left-right voting in Europe. During that Fall, 2023, I won an UDE Seed Funding Grant for studying the macroeconomic underpinnings of gender differences in political ideology. This project draws on my previous co-authored paper with Prof. Ilkkaracan, where we focused on how the role of home-maker women in the gender gap in the probability of leaning left in Spain, forthcoming at Feminist Economics journal.

Before IfSO, I was a political economy fellow at the Statistics Dept. of Sapienza University of Rome in 2019. I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from the Econometrics and Statistics Dept. of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Spain (2019) and an MS. in International Economics from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain (2013). I was an international fellow at the Politics Dept. of New York University (NYU) in New York in Fall 2016 and Summer 2017. I went on COST Action scientific mission on computational social choice at Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) in 2015.