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Education

• • B.Sc. in Mathematics, Universidad de Murcia, 1984

  • M.Sc. in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, London School of Economics, 1990.

  • Ph.D. in Economics, London School of Economics, 1994.

Research fields

• • Labor Economics

  • Public Economics

  • Microeconometrics

Academic Experience

• • April 2012 - Today, Professor, Universidad de Alicante.

  • May 2001 - April 2012, Associate Professor, Universidad de Alicante. 

  • Oct 1998 - April 2001, Assistant Professor, Universidad de Alicante.

  • Oct 1994 - Sept 1998, Assistant Professor, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Editorial appointments

• Associate Editor, SERIEs, Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 2010-12.

• Associate Editor, Spanish Economic Review, 2005-2007.

• Co-Editor, Spanish Economic Review, 2008-2009.

• Editorial Board, Investigaciones Económicas, 2005-2009.

Ph.D Students

• • Laura Crespo, "Three Empirical Essays on Labour Supply Behavior". September 2007.

  • Lorenzo Ductor, "The Effects of Academic Collaboration on Productivity. Theory and Empirical Evidence" (co-director Marco van del Leij). May 2012.

  • Mariya Melnichuck, "Three essays in Health Economics". June 2013. 

  • Miguel Angel Borrella, "Three essays in Political Economy" (co-advisor Marcello Sartarelli). November 2015.

  • Norbert Czinkan, "Three essays on Applied Microeconomics" (co-advisor Francesco Turino), July 2017.

Published Papers

• • “Estimating Intergenerational and Assortative Processes in Extended Family Data” (with Ignacio Ortuño-Ortin and Jan Stuhler). Review of Economic Studies (2023), Vol. 90, 1195–1227.

  • "Daily expenses of foreign tourists, length of stay and activities: Evidence from Spain" (with Ester Fernández-Rubio y Antonio García Sánchez). Tourism Economics (2013), Vol.19 (3), 613–630. 

  • “Intergenerational linkages in consumption patterns and the geographical distribution of surnames” (with Ignacio Ortuño-Ortin and Andres Romeu). Regional Science and Urban Economics (2012), Vol 42, 341-350.

• • "Public Transfers to the Poor: Is Europe really much more Generous than the United States?" (with Iñigo Iturbe-Ormaetxe). International Tax and Public Finance (2010), Vol. 17, 662–685.

  • "Surnames and Social Status in Spain" (with Ignacio Ortuño-Ortin and Andres Romeu). Investigaciones Económicas (2008), Vol. 32, 259-287. Download PDF 344 Kb

  • "Habits and heterogeneity in demands: a panel data analysis", (with Martin Browning), Journal of Applied Econometrics (2007), Vol. 22, 625-640.

  • "Quantifying the Impact of Immigration on the Spanish Welfare State" (with Iñigo Iturbe-Ormaetxe and Guadalupe Valera). International Tax and Public Finance (2004), Vol. 11 (3), 335-353.

  • "Innovation and Job Creation and Destruction: Evidence from Spain", (with Cesar Alonso-Borrego),  Recherches Economiques de Louvain (2002) Vol. 68 (1-2), 149-168.

  • "The Response of Expenditures to Anticipated Income Changes: Panel data Estimates", (with Martin Browning), American Economic Review (2001) Vol. 91(3), 681-692.

  • "Estimating Binary Choice Models from Cohort Data". Investigaciones Económicas (1998), Vol. 22, pp 259-276.

  • "Separability and Aggregate Shocks in the Life-Cycle Model of Consumption: Evidence from Spain". Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (1998), Vol. 60,  227-247.

  • "Estimating Dynamic Models from Time Series of Independent Cross-Sections", Journal of Econometrics (1998), Vol. 82, 37-62.