Journal articles

1. 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 

2. 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 

3. 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 

4. 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 

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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 

8. 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 

9. 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 

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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 

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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.

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

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

22. 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.

23. 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)

24. 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

25. 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. 

26. 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. 

27. 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. 

28. 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.