WORK IN PROGRESS:
Fathers at home: The Role of Paternity Leave in Family Formation and Dissolution (with Sergio Blanco, Claudia Hupkau and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela)
Paternity leave and maternal health (with Marta Curull and Laia Maynou)
The role of comparative advantages in understanding the gender gap in STEM (with Andreu Arenas and Cecilia Ramirez)
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). [Video]
Gender Gaps in the Valuation of Working Conditions (with Marta Curull-Sentís, Libertad González and Laia Maynou). Revise and Resubmit, Labour Economics (November 2025).
Promoting Female Talent in Science: Evidence from an AA policy (with Judit Vall Castelló). Submitted.
Are female-dominated cancers underfunded? (with Ha Luong and Judit Vall). Submitted.
Paternity leave and child development (with Libertad González, Claudia Hupkau and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela)
PUBLICATIONS:
Ser mujer e inmigrante en España: doble penalización. FUNCAS (2026)
Paternity Leave in Spain (with Libertad González, Claudia Hupkau and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela). SERIES, (2025) Vol 16: 749-784. Volume 16,
Geographical Mobility of College Students and the Gender Gap in Academic Aspirations (with Francesc Ortega). Labour Economics, (2024), Vol. 90.
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, (2023), Vol. 58 (6).
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.