Journal articles

1. Barreix, G., Anderle, R., da Silva, A., Sales, L., Pena, D., Monti, C., Garcia Vaz, C., Esposito, L., Anderson, E., Jara, H. X., Santa, H., Dos Santos de Jesus, G., Medeiros Cavalcanti, D., Nhacolo, A., Macicame, I., Bassat, Q. & Rasella, D. (2026). Wealth redistribution policies to mitigate the impact of development assistance defunding: a retrospective evaluation and forecasting analysis up to 2030, The Lancet, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(26)00975-X 

2. Serván-Mori, E., Zamudio-Sosa, A., Esposito, L., Sandoval-Moreno, G., Jara, H. X., Medeiros Cavalcanti, D., Moncayo, A., Rasella, D. & Chivardi, C.. (2026). Heterogeneous income gradients in early motherhood in Mexico: a population-based multi-method study, 2000–2020. International Journal for Equity in Health. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-026-02908-w 

3. Bargain, O., Jara, H.X. & Rivera, D. (2026). Social gaps, perceived inequality and protests, World Development, 199, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107248 

4. Deza, M. C., Dondo, M., Jara, H. X., Rodriguez, D. & Torres, J. (2025). The role of tax-benefit systems in reducing the gender income gap in Latin America, Social Policy and Administration, http://doi.org/10.1111/spol.70001 

5. Jara, H. X., Montesdeoca, L., Colmenarez, M. G. & Moreno, L. (2025). Two decades of tax-benefit reforms in Ecuador: How much have they contributed to poverty and inequality reduction? World Development, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.106976 

6. Jara, H. X., Rodríguez, D., Collado, D., Torres, J., Mideros, A., Montesdeoca, L., Avellaneda, A., Chang, R., & Vanegas, O. (2025). Assessing the role of tax-benefit policies during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the Andean region. Review of Development Economics, 226-246. https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.13125 

7. Gasior, K., Jara, H. X. and Makovec, M. (2024). Assessing the Effectiveness of Social Protection Measures in Mitigating COVID-19-Related Income Shocks in the European Union. Economic Analysis and Policy, 83: 583-605

8. Jara, H. X. and Palacio-Ludena, M. G. (2024). Rethinking social assistance amid the COVID-19 pandemic: guaranteeing the right to income security in Ecuador, Journal of International Development, 36(3), 1738–1764. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3878

9. Jara, H. X., and Simon, A. (2024). A European unemployment benefit to protect atypical workers?. Social Indicators Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-023-03276-6 

10. Akay, A., Bargain, O.  and Jara H. X. (2023). Experienced versus decision utility: large scale comparison for income leisure preferences. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 125: 823-859, https://doi.org/10.1111/sjoe.12538 

11. Jara, H. X., Deza, M. C., Oliva, N., and Torres, J. (2023). Financial Disincentives to Formal Employment and Tax-Benefit Systems in Latin America. International Tax and Public Finance, 30, 69-113,  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-021-09724-8 

12. Bargain, O., Jara, H.X., Kwenda, P. and Ntuli, M. (2022). Income distribution and the potential of redistributive systems in Africa: a decomposition approach. Journal of African Economies, 31 (4),  293-328, https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejab027

13. Jara, H.X., Montesdeoca, L. and Tasseva, I. (2022). The Role of Automatic Stabilizers and Emergency Tax–Benefit Policies During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Ecuador. European Journal of Development Research, 34, 2787-2809, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-021-00490-1

14. Rasella, D., Richiardi, L., Brachowicz, N., Jara, H.X., Hanson, M., Boccia, D., Richiardi, M., Pizzi, C. (2021). Developing an integrated microsimulation model for the impact of fiscal policies on child health in Europe: the example of childhood obesity in Italy. BMC Medicine, 19, 310. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-02155-6

15. Huesca, L., Llamas, L., Jara, H. X., Vargas Téllez, C., & Rodríguez, D. (2021). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty and inequality in Mexico. Revista mexicana de economía y finanzas, 16(3), e633. Epub 02 de mayo de 2022. https://doi.org/10.21919/remef.v16i3.633 

16. Jara, H. X., and Tumino, A. (2021). Atypical Work and Unemployment Protection in Europe. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 59: 535– 555. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13099

17. Jara, H. X., and Popova, D. (2021). Second Earners and In-Work Poverty in Europe. Journal of Social Policy, 50(3), 470-492. doi:10.1017/S0047279420000227

18. Akay, A., Bargain, O.  and Jara H. X. (2020). Fair Welfare Comparison with Heterogeneous Tastes: Subjective versus Revealed Preferences. Social Choice and Welfare, 55, 51–84, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-019-01231-4.

19. Jara, H.X., Gasior, K. and Makovec, M. (2020). Work Incentives at the Extensive and Intensive Margin in Europe: The Role of Taxes, Benefits and Population Characteristics. Social Indicators Research, 152, 705-778. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-020-02462-0

20. Jara, H.X., and Varela, C. (2019). Tax-benefit microsimulation and income redistribution in Ecuador. International Journal of Microsimulation, 12 (1), pp. 52-82. DOI: 10.34196/IJM.00194

21. Bargain, O., Jara, H. X. and Rodriguez, D. (2017). Learning from your neighbour: swapping tax-benefit systems in Latin America. Journal of Economic Inequality, 15(4), pp.369-392. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-017-9367-5

22. Jara, H. X., and Schokkaert, E. (2017). Putting measures of individual well-being to use for ex-ante policy evaluation. Journal of Economic Inequality, 15(4), pp.421-440. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-017-9370-x

23. Jara, H. X. (2015). The effect of job insecurity on labour supply. Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 18 (2), pp. 187-204.

24. Andor, L., Dullien, S., Jara, H. X., Sutherland, H. and Gros, D. (2014). Designing a European unemployment insurance scheme. Intereconomics, 49 (4), pp.184-203.

25. Jara, H. X. and Tumino, A. (2013). Tax-benefit systems, income distribution and work incentives in the EU. International Journal of Microsimulation, 6 (1), pp. 27-62. DOI: 10.34196/IJM.00076

Books (as editor or co-editor)

26. Jara, H. X., Mideros-Mora, A. and Palacio, M. G. (editors). (2024). Política social, pobreza y desigualdad en el Ecuador: 1980-2021. Centro de publicaciones PUCE. Quito, Ecuador. 

Book chapters

27. Bargain, O., Carrillo-Maldonado, P. and Jara, H. X. (2025). Top earnings and inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador: Evidence from administrative data, in M. Jouste, and others (eds), Poor Protection: The Role of Taxes and Social Benefits in the Developing World During Crises, https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198909453.003.0009. 

28. Rodríguez, D., Jara, H. X., Dondo, M., Arancibia, C., Macas, D., Riella, R., Urraburu, J., Llamas, L., Huesca, L., Torres, J. and Chang, R. (2025). The role of taxes and benefits in protecting household incomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of seven Latin American countries, in M. Jouste, and others (eds), Poor Protection: The Role of Taxes and Social Benefits in the Developing World During Crises, https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198909453.003.0005. 

29. Jara, H. X., Mideros, A. and Palacio, M. G. (2024). Cuarenta años de política social en el Ecuador: una breve introducción, in H. X. Jara, A. Mideros & M. G. Palacio (Eds.), Política social, pobreza y desigualdad en el Ecuador: 1980-2021 (pp. 286-325). Centro de publicaciones PUCE. 

30. Jara, H. X., Montesdeoca, L., Colmenarez, M. G. and Moreno, L. (2024). El efecto de los impuestos directos y las transferencias monetarias sobre la pobreza y la desigualdad en Ecuador. En H. X. Jara, A. Mideros & M. G. Palacio (Eds.), Política social, pobreza y desigualdad en el Ecuador: 1980-2021 (pp. 286-325). Centro de publicaciones PUCE.