"The Impact of the Female Advantage in Education on the Family". Forthcoming at the Journal of Human Resources. [Ungated version]
Read my blog post in Nada es Gratis (in Spanish)
"The Long-Run Effects of Cesarean Sections" (with Ana Costa-Ramón, Mika Kortelainen and Lauri Sääksvuori). Journal of Human Resources 57, no. 6 (2022): 2048-2085.
Media coverage: La Vanguardia, El Periódico, Yle. Watch us explain this paper and more of our research on C-sections here (in Spanish)
“Inequality in Mortality between Black and White Americans by Age, Place, and Cause, and in Comparison to Europe, 1990-2018” (with Hannes Schwandt, Janet Currie, Marlies Bär, et al.), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 118, no. 40 (2021). [NBER Working Paper]
Media coverage: The Atlantic, The Guardian, Inequality.org
"Inequality in Mortality in Spain" (with Libertad González). Fiscal Studies 42, no. 1 (2021): 103-121.
Watch us explain our findings here (in Spanish)
"It's about Time: Cesarean Sections and Neonatal Health" (with Ana María Costa-Ramón, Miquel Serra-Burriel and Carlos Campillo-Artero), Journal of Health Economics 59 (2018): 46-59. [Ungated version]
Media coverage: La Vanguardia, El Periódico, ABC. Read our blog posts in The Barcelona GSE Voice and in Nada es Gratis, or watch us explain our findings here (in Spanish) or here (in English)
Awarded second prize of 2018 iHEA Annual Student Paper Prize. Nominated for the 2019 La Vanguardia Science award
"The Oral Contraceptive Pill, Adolescents' Mental Health and Socio-Economic Outcomes" (with Ana Costa-Ramón and N. Meltem Daysal). IZA Discussion Paper No. 16288 (2023), R&R at the Economic Journal
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Non-Toxic Peers: Long-Run Returns from an Anti-Bullying Program (with Tabea Braun, Ana Costa-Ramón, Ursina Schaede, and Christina Salmivalli)
We study the long-run impacts of a randomized anti-bullying intervention, the KiVa program, in Finnish schools. We link the RCT survey data for 15,000 pupils attending grades 7-9 to comprehensive administrative records on educational attainment, labor market attachment, and criminal activity in adulthood. Treated students experience gains in human capital and labor market outcomes: they are more likely to enroll in academic high school, obtain a university degree, and earn higher wages by ages 27-29. These gains accrue to all groups of pupils, irrespective of gender or social role at baseline. We show that the likely mechanism is a reduction in bullying in the classroom, particularly among boys, which leads to a more positive learning environment for all students. A reduction in crime in adulthood among boys suggests that the program successfully mitigated harmful behavior beyond the intervention window.
Job Promotions and Family Wellbeing (with Ana Costa-Ramón, Helena Svaleryd, and Anna Thoresson)