Work in progress

Employers' response to paternity leave (with Libertad González)

Inequality in the long-run: roots and challenges (with Pablo Beramendi )

• Chapter 11 of Twisted modernization: The Political Economy of Contemporary Spain, eds. Pablo Beramendi and Carles Boix. Forthcoming in Cambridge University Press (Link to the introduction).

The Shadow of Polarization is Long: Trust in the Government and Independent Institutions after 142 Government Changes (with Gonzalo Rivero)

• R&R at Journal of Comparative Economics

• Older version: Bank of Spain Working paper 2237 (2022) (Link)

• Presented at MPSA 2022, EEP 2022.

Childcare constraints on immigrant integration  (with María Sanchez-Dominguez)

• Submitted to Socio-Economic Review.

• Bank of Spain Working paper 2216 (2022) (Link)

• Non-academic summary: Nada es Gratis (in Spanish)

• Slides (presented at MPSA 2022, SEHO 2022, ESPE 2022)

(Mis)Measuring uncertainty: bunching in probabilistic expectations 

• with Carola Binder, Laura Crespo, Ernesto Villanueva and Carlos Gento.

Animal spirits in subjective expectations: evidence from a confidence vote 

• Part of dissertation Long-Run Relationships, Economic Shocks and Political Disagreement: The Political Economy of Populism and Polarization

• Slides Presented at EEA 2020, SAE 2020

Peer-reviewed publications

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

• Review of Economics of the household (Forthcoming)

• Working paper, Barcelona School of Economics (Link)

• Media echo: 

  • Newspapers: ABC , El Diario, Barron's, 20 minutos, El Periódico, Público , Infobae, La dépêche, Le Parisien.

  • TV  and radio echo: TVE, Telecinco , TV3, Franceinfo.

Partisan Abortions with Libertad González and Blanca Zapater.

• Journal of Population Economics, 39, 11 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-026-01151-5 

• Non-academic summary at Nada es Gratis (in Spanish) and as BSE Focus (in English).

• Slides (presented at ESPE 2023, SEHO 2023, EALE 2023, GEPS 2023 )

Economic expectations under the shadow of party polarization: Evidence from 135 cabinet shifts. 

• • European Economic Review (2025). 

  • Previous wp version open access: Link; earlier version: Bank of Spain Working paper 20133 (2021): (Link). 

  • Non-academic summaries published at SUERF (English) and Nada es Gratis (in Spanish)

  •  Slides  (Presented at SAE 2021, EEP 2021).

Family and career: an analysis across Europe and North America (with Laura Hospido and Andrea Weber)

• Fiscal Studies 45.2 (2024): 243-257. (Link)

• Wp versions: Bank of Spain and IZA.

• Referred in the press: El Economista; El Confidencial.

The decoupling between public debt fundamentals and bond spreads after the European sovereign debt crisis (with Javier Pérez)

Applied Economics 55 (34), 3971-3979 , 2023 (Link)

The double penalty: How female migrants manage family responsibilities in the Spanish dual labour market (with María Sanchez-Dominguez)

Journal of Family Research 33 (2), 509-540  9 2021 (Link)

Other projects and non-peer reviewed publications

Unfulfilled aspirations: The link between anti-establishment politics and economic insecurity after financial crises

• Working paper Instituto de Estudios Fiscales (7/2021)  (Link)

• Presented at SAE 2019, EEP 2019

Changes in consumer inflation expectations in response to the recent rise in prices and the war in Ukraine (with Ivan Kataryniuk)

Economic Bulletin/Bank of Spain, 2/2022, p. 19-21 (Link)

Fiscal policy response to the crisis in the euro area and the United States (with Ivan Kataryniuk and Carlos Moreno)

Economic Bulletin/Bank of Spain, 2020/12 (Link)

The use of BVARs in the analysis of emerging economies (with Angel Estrada García, Iván Kataryniuk, Jaime Martínez Martín)

Occasional Paper Bank of Spain n 2001 (2020)

El muro invisible: las dificultades de ser joven en España (with Politikon)

A non academic book published in 2017 with other social scientist exploring the age orientation of politics and policy in Spain. 

Review of "Economic Theory and Cognitive Science: Microexplanation" from Don Ross (in Spanish)

Encrucijadas: Revista Crítica de Ciencias Sociales, (4), 155-159. (2012).