Rebeca Echavarri is Associate Professor of Foundations of Economic Analysis at Universidad Publica de Navarra (UPNA), a member of the INARBE research institute, and Deputy Head of the Department of Economics since 2021. She co-leads a research project provisionally awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (2026 call). Her research covers development, political economy and gender-based discrimination. It has been published in journals such as European Economic Review, Demography, World Development, Social Sciences & Medicine, Social Choice and Welfare, Cliometrica, Population Research and Policy Review, and Mathematical Social Sciences.
She was Lecturer in Economics at the University of Glasgow (2014–2017) before returning to UPNA, where she had taught in 2006–2008 and 2010–2014. She has also held research positions at the University of the Basque Country (2010) and the University of Padua (as a Marie Curie Fellow, 2005), and has been a visiting scholar at New York University, the University of Cambridge, the Delhi School of Economics and the Toulouse School of Economics. She received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award (2006-2008) for her thesis in individual and social decisions.
She is committed to public engagement. Her work on the missing girls in early 20th-century Spain and on how bystanders recognise gender-based violence has been covered by El País, RTVE, Cadena SER and EFE, and she has written for Nada es Gratis and The Conversation.