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.
Labor Economics
Public Economics
Microeconometrics
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.
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.
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.
“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.