“ The Gender Gap in Preferences Evidence from 45,397 Facebook Interests”, with A. Cuevas, R. Cuevas and K. Desmet, accepted, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2025), Related Vox column and VoxTalk podcast. Coverage in Atlantico.
"Is secessionism mostly about income or identity? A global analysis of 3,153 subnational regions,” with K. Desmet and O. Özak, The Economic Journal, 2004,
“Expanding the measurement of culture with a sample of two billion humans,” with N. Obradovich, O. Özak, I. Marín, E. Awad, M. Cebrián, R. Cuevas, K. Desmet, I. Rahwan, Á. Cuevas, Journal of the Royal Society Interface (May 2022). Online Appendix. Related Vox column.
“Estimating Intergenerational and Assortative Processes in Extended Family Data,” with M. Dolores Collado and Jan Stuhler, Review of Economic Studies, 2022. (working paper version)
“The Geography of Linguistic Diversity and the Provision of Public Goods,” with K. Desmet and J. Gomes, Journal of Development Economics, (2020), 143: 1-27. Online Appendix. Related Vox column. Coverage in Quartz and La Vanguardia.
“Polling in a Proportional Representation System,” with Christos Mavridis, (2018) Social Choice and Welfare, (2018), 51:297-312.
"Culture, Ethnicity and Diversity," with K. Desmet and R. Wacziarg, (2017) American Economic Review, (2017), 107(9): 2479-2513. Online Appendix. Related Vox column. Interview to K. Desmet in Trends.
"Peripheral Diversity: Transfers versus Public Goods,” with Klaus Desmet and Shlomo Weber, Social Choice and Welfare, (2017) 49:787-823.
"Endogenous party platforms: "stochastic" membership," with Andrei Gomberg and Francisco Marhuenda, Economic Theory, (2016), 62:839-866.
Children Emergency Room Use and the Nature of Intergenerational Transfers", with Andres Romeu, Modern Economy, (2013), 4:1-9.
"The Citation Merit of Scientific Publications,” with J. Crespo and J. Ruiz-Castillo. PLoS ONE, Nov 2012, (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049156).
"Average-Based versus High-and Low-Impact Indicators for the Evaluation of Scientific Distributions," with P. Albarrán and J. Ruiz-Castillo. Research Evaluation, (2012), 20: 325-340.
"Intergenerational Linkages in Consumption Patterns and the Geographical Distribution of Surnames,” with L. Collado and A. Romeu, Regional Science and Urban Economics, (2012), 42, 341-350.
"The Stability and Breakup of Nations: A Quantitative Analysis," with K. Desmet, M. LeBreton and S. Weber, Journal of Economic Growth (2011), 16:183-213.Coverage in BBC, Radio Nacional de España, El Mundo.
"The Skewness of Science in 219 Sub-fields and a Number of Aggregates", with P. Albarrán, J. Crespo, and J. Ruiz-Castillo, Scientometrics, (2011), 88:385-397.
"The Political Economy of Linguistic Cleavages," with Klaus Desmet and Romain Wacziarg, Journal of Development Economics, (2012), 97: 322-338.
"High-and Low-Impact Citation Measures: Empirical Applications,” with P. Albarrán, and J. Ruiz-Castillo, in Journal of Informetrics, 5 (2011), 122-145.
"The Measurement of Low- and High-impact in Citation Distributions: Technical Results,” with P. Albarrán, and J. Ruiz-Castillo, in Journal of Informetrics, 5 (2011), 48-63.
“A Comparison of the Scientific Performance of the U.S. and the European Union at the Turn of the XX Century,” with P. Albarrán, J. Crespo, and J. Ruiz-Castillo, Scientometrics, (2010), 85:329-344.
“Linguistic Diversity and Redistribution," with K. Desmet and S. Weber, Journal of the European Economic Association, (2009), 7 (6) 1291-1318.
“Surnames and Social Status in Spain” with L. Collado and A. Romeu, Investigaciones Económicas, (2008), XXXII(3): 259-287.
“Learning Foreign Languages: Theoretical and Empirical Implications of the Selten and Pool Model” with Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, (2007), 64: 337-347.
"Rational Underdevelopment," with Klaus Desmet, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, (2007), 109(1): 1-24.
"Endogenous Platforms: The Case of Many Parties," with A. Gomberg and F. Marhuenda, International Journal of Game Theory, (2007), 35: 223-249.
"Gamson’s Law and Hedonic Games," with M LeBreton and S. Weber. Social Choice and Welfare, (2007), 30: 57-67.
"A Theoretical Model of Nations, Regions and Fiscal Integration," with J. Sempere, Regional Science and Urban Economics, (2006), 36: 132-157.
"Public Funding of Political Parties," with C. Schultz, Journal of Public Economic Theory, (2005), 7(5): 781-791.
"Disenfranchisement in Linguistically Diverse Societies. The Case of the European Union", with V. Ginsburgh and S. Weber, Journal of the European Economic Association, (2005), 3(4): 946-96.5
"An Endogenous Model of Political Platforms," with A. Gomberg and F. Marhuenda, Economic Theory, (2004), 24: 373-394.
"Delegation and Polarization of Platforms in Political Competition," with Efe Ok and Ramon Fauli, Economic Theory, (2003), 22: 289-309.
"Ideological versus Downsian Political Competition," Social Choice and Welfare, (2002), 19: 551-567
"Income Taxation, Uncertainty and Stability", with Francisco Marhuenda, Journal of Public Economics, (1998), 67: 285-300.
"Political Compromise and Endogenous Formation of Coalitions", with A. Gerber, Social Choice and Welfare, (1998), 15: 445-454.
"Tax Enforcement Problems," with Francisco Marhuenda, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, (1997), 99(1): 61-72.
"A Spatial Model of Political Competition and Proportional Representation", Social Choice and Welfare, (1997), 14: 427-438.
"Majority Voting and Progressivity", with Francisco Marhuenda, Investigaciones Económicas, (1995), XIX(3): 469-473.
"Popular Support for Progressive Taxation", with Francisco Marhuenda, Economics Letters, (1995), 48:319-324.
"Robust Implementation under Alternative Information Structures", with Luis Corchón, Economic Design, (1995), 1:159-171.
"Politically Realistic Implementation with Inspection: The Honesty-Equity Trade-off", with John Roemer, Economics and Politics, (1993) 5:255-270
“Language, Redistribution and Economic Development,” with K. Desmet and R. Wacziarg, in “Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language,” V. Ginsburgh and S. Weber, eds., 2016.
Discussion on "Democratic Firms and the Distribution of Wealth" by S. Bowles and H. Gintis, in Property Relations, Incentives and Welfare, ed. J. Roemer, MacMillan, 1995.
"Investment Planning in Market Socialism," with John Roemer and Joaquim Silvestre, in Democracy and Markets, Ed. S. Bowles, H. Gintis and B. Gustafson, Cambridge University Press, 1993
"Deducing Interpersonal Comparisons from Local Expertise," with John Roemer, in Interpersonal Comparability of Well Being, Ed. J. Elster and J. Roemer, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
"Sympathies in press coverage during the first months of the Israel-Hamas war ", August 2025, with Alejandra Walzer Moskovic
"On the Measurement of Social Heterogeneity," December 2024, prepared for the Handbook of Culture and Economic Behavior (with Klaus Desmet and Romain Wacziarg)
“Latent Polarization” with Klaus Desmet and Romain Wacziarg, (2024)
"Public Funding of Political Parties with Informative Campaigns” with Christian Schultz. (2024)