About me

Rebeca Echavarri works in the field of development, paying attention to gender-based discrimination. Her work has been published in peer journals such as Demography, World Development, Cliometrica, Social Sciences and Medicine, Social Choice and Welfare, and Mathematical Social Sciences. Rebeca Echavarri joined the department of Economics at Universidad Publica de Navarra in September 2017. Previously, she was lecturer in Economics in Glasgow University (2014-2017), lecturer at Universidad Publica de Navarra (2006-2008, 2010-2014), researcher at Universidad del Pais Vasco (2009) and Padova University (2005). Rebeca Echavarri has been visiting scholar in Universities such as New York University, Cambridge University, Delhi School of Economics and University of Toulouse. Among prices and fellowship, it is worth mentioning that Rebeca Echavarri got the price for the best PhD dissertation (2006-2008), got a Marie Curie Fellowship (2005), and one of her projects is currently founded by La Caixa-Social Research Call (2021). The conclusions of her research on sex-based discrimination at birth in Spain in the first half of the 20th century have appeared in TVE Navarra (5 March 2021), in a podcast (ciencia al punto), in written press (EFENOTICIA13 March 2021, Noticias de Navarra) and radio (Cadena SER 13 March 2021). In addition, she has written two posts in the blog Nada es Gratis (2 June 2021 and, with Francisco Beltrán Tapia, 27 June 2023), other in The Conversation (16 July 2023) and a podcast in Faculti.net (15 December 2023). 
Rebeca Echavarri got the accreditation for the position of Associate Professor of in Economics (Titular de Universidad) by the Spanish National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA) in November, 2021).