I am an Associate Professor (Profesor Permanente Laboral) in the Department of Economics at the University of Alcalá (Madrid, Spain).

Previously, I was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain), where I conducted research on my project #Leave4NextGen funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe programme.

Over the last years,  I visited the AXA Gender Lab at Università Bocconi (Fall 2025) and the STICERD at the London School of Economics and Political Science (Spring 2022).

I completed my PhD in Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), within the Dulbea.

I have been appointed as a IZA Research Affiliate in April 2024, as well as a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization.

My research interests are in labor and public economics, with a focus on gender inequalities and the impact of public policies.

Contact:

• Email: sebastien.fontenay@uah.es

• Twitter: @FontenaySbasti1 | Bluesky: @fontenaysbasti1.bsky.social

• Plaza de la Victoria 2, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid; Office E6 (Colegio de Mínimos)

Presentations of my research:

• Forthcoming: Italian Association of Labour Economics, Milan (18 Sep. 2025).

• Past: EQUALITAS workshop, Universidade de Vigo (4 Sept. 2025); Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ICAE (12 Mar. 2025); World Labor Conference SOLE-EALE-AASLE, Toronto (27 Jun. 2025); Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (12 Feb. 2025); Axa Gender Lab, Bocconi University, Milan (29 Oct. 2024); DG JUST & OECD Expert Workshop on Advancing Gender Equality, Brussels (9 Oct. 2024); IRES lunch seminar, UCLouvain (8 Oct. 2024); EALE, Bergen (5 Sep. 2024); SEHO, Singapore (28 May 2024); American University, Washington (online, 16 Apr. 2024); ROA seminar, Maastricht University (9 Apr. 2024); DG-ECFIN Workshop on Gender Economics, Online (12 Mar. 2024); Applied Lunch Seminar, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Nov. 2023); Development Economics Workshop, Universitat de Barcelona (Oct. 2023); ROA PhD Day, Maastricht University, Online (Sept. 2023); European Society for Population Economics (ESPE), Belgrade (Jun. 2023); ADE, Louvain-la-Neuve (Jun. 2023); ECARES, Brussels (May. 2023); Household Economics Gathering, Brussels (Dec.2022); Belgian Day of Labor Economists, Brussels (Oct. 2022); University of Alcalá (Sep. 2022); Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet (LAGV), Marseille (June 2022); Arne Ryde Workshop on Gender and Family Wellbeing, Lund (May 2022); SOLE annual meeting, Minneapolis, (May 2022); Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society, Braga (April, 2022); Royal Economic Society Annual Meeting, Online (April 2022); Public Economics WiP seminar, London School of Economics, STICERD (Feb. 2022).