Research

PUBLICATIONS

Clarke C, Bonnet J, Flores M, Thévenon O. 2023. What are the economic costs of childhood socio-economic disadvantage? Evidence from a pathway analysis in 27 European countries, The Journal of Economic Inequality, DOI: 10.1007/s10888-023-09603-8

Flores M, Wolfe B. 2023. The influence of early-life health conditions on life course health,  Demography 60 (2): 431-459 

Flores M, Wolfe B. 2022. Childhood Health Conditions and Lifetime Labor Market Outcomes,  American Journal of Health Economics 8 (4): 506-533

Flores M, García-Gómez P, Kalwij A.  2020. Early life circumstances and labor market outcomes over the life cycle, The Journal of Economic Inequality 18 (4): 449-468

Flores M, Fernández M, Pena-Boquete Y. 2020. The impact of health on wages: Evidence from Europe before and during the Great Recession, Oxford Economic Papers 72 (2): 319-346

Second prize in X Lluis Fina Award 

Flores M, Kalwij A. 2019. What do wages add to the health-employment nexus? Evidence from older European workers, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 81 (1): 123-145

media coverage: The SHARE Blog

Flores M, Wolfe B. 2018. Ties between health policy, early health problems and lifetime earnings,  FinanzArchiv / Public Finance Analysis 74 (1): 109-130

Flores M, Kalwij A. 2014. The associations between early life circumstances and later life health and employment in Europe, Empirical Economics 47 (4): 1251-1282

Flores M, García-Gómez P, Zunzunegui MV. 2014. Economic crisis, poverty and childhood: What are the expected short- and long-term effects for the "children of the crisis"? (in Spanish), Gaceta Sanitaria, SESPAS report 28 (S1): 132-136

WORK IN PROGRESS

“Does a decrease in unemployment insurance generosity worsen health status? Evidence from a natural experiment in Spain” (with Fernando G. Benavides and Laura Serra-Saurina) 

Presented at SOLE 2021, ESPE 2021, ASHEcon 2021, JEL 2021, EALE 2021, SAE 2021 and AES 2022. Video of our presentation at the IX EvaluAES Workshop (in Spanish) 

“The impact of pollution on children's health” (with Toni Mora and David Roche)

“Intergenerational transmission in health care use? The role of mothers and fathers in children's health care use” (with Toni Mora, Teresa Bago d'Uva and Pilar García-Gómez, submitted)

“Utilization and out-of-pocket payments for home care services: an international comparison” (with Laia Maynou, submitted)

“NBER's International Social Security (ISS) Project - Phase 11: Social Security and inequality in Spain” (with Pilar García-Gómez, Sergi Jiménez-Martín and Judit Vall-Castelló)

CONTRIBUTIONS TO OECD/WHO PUBLICATIONS

Clarke C, Bonnet J, Flores M, Thévenon O (2022), The economic costs of childhood socio-economic disadvantage in European OECD countries, OECD Papers on Well-being and Inequalities, No. 9, OECD Publishing, Paris.

Barber SL, van Gool K, Wise S, Woods M, Or Z, Penneau A et al. (2021), Pricing long-term care for older persons. Geneva: WHO, OECD.

Policy brief and video of the interview of the Case Report for Spain.

OECD (2017), Preventing Ageing Unequally, OECD Publishing, Paris (coordinator and coauthor of Chapter 2 and coauthor of Chapter 4). 

Video of the launch event in Spain at Fedea (Madrid) together with Monika Queisser (Head of Social Policy Division, OECD). My presentation (in Spanish) starts at 14'40.

OECD (2018), Working Better with Age and Fighting Unequal Ageing in the United States, OECD Publishing, Paris (coauthor of Chapter 1).