Working Papers
The effects of childcare policies on the female labor market: Evidence from Spain
This paper was the recipient of the 2022 Research Grant on Socioeconomic Wellbeing, Cátedra Germán Bernacer
Finalist for the ALdE-AEA Young Researchers Award
Equality laws and the wage gap in the Spanish context
[Draft]
From Nursery to Classroom: The Lasting Impact of Public Early Childcare
with Marianna Battaglia (U. Alicante)
[Draft available soon]
Work in Progress
Labor shocks and intra-household bargaining: Evidence from Great Britain
Abstract
Despite the theoretical evidence on how labor market opportunities would shape married women’s outside options, and their bargaining power within households as a result, this link has received little empirical attention in developed countries. Using both, personal and household data on consumption on a wide range of goods for British families and data from the administrative records of the British Social Security, this paper aims to identify, using a Bartik instrument, the effects of relative changes in labor market opportunities for men and women on both working and non-working women’s decision making power, measured as their relative consumption within spouses. Finally, given new evidences on the caveats of using Bartik instruments for measuring aggregate shocks, I will use as robustness the differential labor demand shocks across British industries caused by China’s admission to the WTO.