Fields of Interest

Economics of Education, Public Economics, Economics of Poverty and Inequality, Program Evaluation, Applied Microeconomics

Publications in refereed journals

• Bridging the Gender Gap: Women’s Education and Political Representation (with L. Bellani) Economics of Education Review 104, 102605, 2025

• Test Endurance and Remedial Education Interventions: Good News for Girls, (with M. Battaglia) The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 24(4), 1139-1174, 2024.

• On the identification of the effect of education on health: A comment on Fonseca et al. (2020), (with P. Albarrán and I. Iturbe-Ormaetxe), SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 13, 649-661, 2022.

• Social influence and position effects (with N. Jiménez and D. López) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 182, 113-131, 2021.

• Education and health: is there a causal effect? (with I. Iturbe-Ormaetxe and P. Albarrán) Social Science & Medicine 249, 112830, 2020.

• Childhood-related policies and adult poverty: Evidence from some European countries Social Indicators Research 144 (1): 191-217, 2019.

• Long-run Effects of Public Expenditure on Poverty (with I. Iturbe-Ormaetxe) The Journal of Economic Inequality 16 (1): 1-22, 2018.

  • Media coverage: NadaEsGratis

• No student left behind? Evidence from the Program for School Guidance in Spain (with J.I. García-Pérez) Economics of Education Review 60: 97-111, 2017.

  • Media coverage: NadaEsGratis Politikon

• University merging process: a guideline proposal for excellence-enhancing (with G. Valera) The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 16(3): 1359-1386, 2016.

• Tracking can be more Equitable than Mixing The Scandinavian Journal of Economics 116 (4): 964-981, 2014.

• Does grade retention affect student's achievement? Some evidence from Spain (with J.I. García-Pérez and J. A. Robles-Zurita) Applied Economics 46 (12): 1373-1392, 2014.

• Should we transfer resources from college to basic education? (with I. Iturbe-Ormaetxe) Journal of Economics 105 (1): 1-27, 2012. 

• On the optimal allocation of students when peer effects are at work: tracking vs. mixing SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2(1): 31-52, 2011

Working Papers/ Work In Progress

• Primary vs. secondary school intervention (with M. Battaglia). Revised 2024

• Peer effects in higher education (with D. López). Revised 2024

Other publications

• Desigualdad educativa (with I. Iturbe-Ormaetxe) In Economía de la Educación (Antonio Cabrales and Ismael Sanz, eds.). Fundación Ramón Areces, December 2023.

• Participación política en España: el papel de la educación (with J. A. Robles-Zurita) Papeles de Economía Española, 166, 203-215, 2020

• Developing and Supporting Teachers (with J. I. García-Pérez) in TALIS 2013 Results: An international perspective on teaching and learning, TALIS, OECD Publishing, Paris, 2014. 

• On the Impact of Pre-school attendance on Primary School Results (with J.I. García-Pérez) in PIRLS-TIMSS 2011. International study on progress in reading comprehension, mathematics and sciences. IEA Volume II, Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, Madrid, 2012.

• Diferencias regionales en resultado educativo en España: ¿Qué las determina realmente? (with J. I. García-Pérez and J. A. Robles-Zurita, Universidad Pablo de Olavide) in A. Villar (ed) Educación y desarrollo. Pisa 2009 y el sistema educativo español, Fundación BBVA, 2012.

• Evaluación de políticas públicas: Introducción (with J. I. García Pérez) in A. Bosch (ed.) Metodología y Diseño de Estudios para la evaluación de políticas públicas (coordinated by J. I. García Pérez), 2009.  

• Las influencias de los compañeros en la escuela: “tracking” vs “mixing”, in J. L. Torres (ed.) TemasActuales de Economía, Vol. 2, Analistas Económicos de Andalucía, 2008.