Research

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Gender Diversity in Research (with Judit Vall Castelló)

Paternity leave and child development (with Libertad González, Claudia Hupkau and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela)

Are female-dominated cancers underfunded? (with Ha Luong and Judit Vall)

WORKING PAPERS:

Changing Gender Norms across Generations? Evidence from a Paternity Leave Reform (with Christina Felfe, Libertad González and Patrick Schneider). Reject and resubmit, Journal of Political Economy (February 2024).

PUBLICATIONS:

Geographical Mobility of College Students and the Gender Gap in Academic Aspirations (with Francesc Ortega). Accepted, Labour Economics (2024)
Commuting time and the gender gap in labor market participation (with Jordi Jofre and Juan Torrecillas). Journal of Economic Geography, (2023), Vol. 23(4): 847-870.
Gender Inequality in paid and unpaid work during covid-19 times (with Yarine Fawaz, Libertad González and Jennifer Graves). Review of Income and Wealth, (2021), Vol. 68(2): 323-347.
Selecting Talent: Gender Differences in Participation and Success in Competitive Selection Processes (with Francesc Ortega) Journal of Human Resources (forthcoming).
The Global COVID-19 Student Survey: First Wave Resuts (with David Jaeger, Jaime Arellano-Bover, Krzysztof Karbownik, Marta Martinez-Matute, John Nunley, R. Alan Seals and 37 others). Covid Economics, (2021), Vol 79: 152-217.
"Does Paternity Leave Reduce Fertility?" (with Libertad González) Journal of Public Economics (2019), Vol 172, 52-66
“Feeling Useless: The Effect of Unemployment on Mental Health in the Great Recession” (with Francesco Fasani and Hannes Mueller). IZA Journal of Labor Economics (2018). 7:8
“Immigration and the Public-Private School Choice” (with Francesc Ortega and Ryuichi Tanaka). Labour Economics (2018), Vol 51, 184-201. Best Paper Award Labour Economics 2018
“Immigration, Assimilation and the Future of Public Education ” (with Ryuichi Tanaka and Francesc Ortega). European Journal of Political Economy (2018) Vol 52, 141-165
“The Healthy Immigrant Effect: Evidence from the Ecuadorian Exodus” . Journal of Population Economics (2016) Vol 29(2), 365-394
“Rental Housing Discrimination and the Persistence of Ethnic Residential Segregation” (with Mariano Bosch and M.Angeles Carnero), SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, (2015), Vol 6(2): 129 -152
"Media Exposure and Internal Migration - Evidence from Indonesia" (with Francesco Fasani), Journal of Development Economics (2013) Vol. 102: 48-61
“The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Attitudes and its Implications for Female Labor Force Participation” (with Francis Vella), Economica, (2013), Vol. 80, 219-247
“A Parametric Control Function Approach to Estimating the Returns to Schooling in the Absence of Exclusion Restrictions: An Application to the NLSY” (with Roger Klein and Francis Vella), Empirical Economics, (2013) Vol 43(1), page 111-133
“The role of men in the economic and social development of women - implications for gender equality" , Research Observer (the World Bank), (2013), Vol. 28(1): 22-51
“Does Increasing Parents' Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation? Evidence based on Conditional Second Moments” (with Roger Klein and Francis Vella), Oxford Bulletins of Economics and Statistics, (2012), vol 74(5), p.p. 676-690
“Immigration, Family Responsibilities and the Labor Supply of Skilled Native Women” (with Libertad González and Francesc Ortega), B.E. J. Economic Analysis & Policy (Contributions), (2011), Vol.11, issue 1, p.p. 1-46
“Information and Discrimination in the Rental Housing Market: Evidence from a Field Experiment” (with Mariano Bosch and M. Angeles Carnero), Regional Science and Urban Economics, (2010), 40: 11-19
"Immigrants from Eastern Partnership (EaP) Countries in Spain" (with Núria Rodriguez), IZA Journal of European Labor Studies (2014) Vol 3(2)
“Immigration and the Informal Labor Market” (with Mariano Bosch), Cuadernos Económicos, ICE, (2014), Vol 87: 187-203.
"Parental leave policies and gender equality - A survey of the literature" . Estudios de Economia Aplicada (Invited contribution) (2016) Vol 34(1), 45-60
“Macroeconomic Conditions and the Distribution of Income in Spain”, (with Francis Vella); LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, Vol. 22, Issue 3, p.p. 383-410, September 2008.

BOOKS:

“Education Policy and Migration”, (with Ryuichi Tanaka); in CEPR ebook: Refugees and Econmic Migrants: Facts, policies and challenges. (2016) Edited by Francesco Fasani.

"Les colònies més segures, les més pròseres", ARA, May 2024.

"Assetjament Sexual a la Feina: El que podem aprendre dels escandinaus", ARA, March 2024.

Press release on my work about telework, February 2024.

Summary of publications related to the work Gender Inequality after the Pandemic. March 2023.

"La educación es un muro de contención de la desigualdad", El Períodico, Feb 6, 2021.

The impact of the COVID19 pandemic on gender inequality: The Economist, El País, ARA (permisos per a la cura dels infants), La Vanguardia, El Diario.es, Nada es gratis, ARA (mesures per a la reactivació laboral de les dones)