I am an applied microeconomist and data scientist. I work on family and labor economics and political economy. I wrote my dissertation at Duke (2021), and I work as an Assistant Professor at the University of Barcelona Department of Econometrics and Statistics. Before that, I worked at the Bank of Spain. 

• My CV (Link)

• My job market paper Partisan Abortions :

• • Abstract: We study the effect of unexpected government changes on family outcomes. Using administrative data, we follow a diff-in-diff strategy to show that, after a surprise loss by the party in power in Spain in 2004, municipalities supporting this party experienced a sharp increase in abortions, as well as a decrease in pregnancies, shotgun marriages, and total marriages. We also find a sharp effect on economic expectations, a plausible channel for the impact on fertility.

  • Now accepted at Journal of Population Economics

Recently published

• Economic expectations under the shadow of party polarization  European Economic Review, 2024, p. 104910.

• Family and career: an analysis across Europe and North America Fiscal Studies 45.2 (2024): 243-257.  (with Laura Hospido and Andrea Weber) 

Current projects

• Fathers’ Time-Use while on Paternity Leave: Childcare or Leisure? (WP) (with Libertad González and Laura Hospido) 

• Employers' response to paternity leave (with Libertad González) 

Click here for a detailed account of my research. 

Research interests:

• • Fertility and family choices.

  • Policies, such as parental leave. 

  • Inequality, especially gender gaps.

  • The effect of political polarization on economic expectations and trust.

See a wordy summary here.