Publications

Journal articles

• • 2025 (with Paola Azar), "Electoral dynamics and public primary education spending in a semi-democratic regime: Spain 1902-22", Revista de Historia Económica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 43(2): 165-189 (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0212610925100542 )

  • 2025 (with G. Souto, A. Herranz-Loncán, G. Abió, and C. Patxot), "The Elderly Bias of the Spanish Welfare State (1958-2012)", European Review of Economic History, 29(2): 186-215 (https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/heae015)

  • 2022, "Trade globalization and social spending in Spain, 1850-2000", European Review of Economic History 26(4): 555-578

  • 2022, (with Oriol Sabaté and Alfonso Herranz-Loncán) "Military wages and coups d'état in Spain (1850-1915): the use of public spending as a coup-proofing strategy", Revista de Historia Económica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History 40(2): 205-241

  • 2017, "Political Regime and Public Social Spending in Spain: A Time Series analysis (1850-2000)", Revista de Historia Económica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History 35(3): 355-386

  • 2015, "The inequality trap. A comparative analysis of social spending between 1880 and 1930", Economic History Review 68(2): 683-706

  • 2012, "Are dictatorships less redistributive? A comparative analysis of social spending in Europe (1950-1980)", European Review of Economic History 16(2): 211-232 

  • 2013, "Fallos de mercado y seguro de paro en España antes de 1936", Revista de Historia Económica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History 31(3): 387-422

  • 2013, "Los obstáculos al desarrollo de los seguros sociales en España antes de 1936: el caso del seguro de desempleo", Revista de Historia Industrial 52: 77-110

Books and book chapters

• • 2025, An Economic History of the Spanish Welfare State. The Political Economy of Social Policy from the Mid-19th Century to the Present, Routledge

  • 2022, "A Difficult Consensus: The Making of the Spanish Welfare State", in P. Gray, J. Hall, R. W. Herndon and J. Silvestre (eds.), Standard of Living. Essays in Economics, History and Religion in Honor of John E. Murray, Cham: Springer.

  • 2013, La evolución del gasto social público en España,1850-2005, Estudios de Historia Económica (63), Banco de España, Madrid

  • 2010, "El seguro de desempleo en España en la II República, 1931-1936. La evolución de las tasas de cobertura”, in Pons Pons, Jerònia and Silvestre Rodríguez, Javier (eds.), Los orígenes del Estado del Bienestar en España, 1900-1945: los seguros de accidentes, vejez, desempleo y enfermedad, Zaragoza, Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza

  • 2011, Desigualdad, democracia y estado del bienestar: un análisis comparativo de los determinantes del gasto social en España (1850-2005), PhD thesis, mimeo

Book Reviews

• • 2023, Torregrosa Hetland, S., "The Spanish Fiscal Transition. Tax Reform and Inequality in the Late Twenieth Century", Investigaciones de Historia Económica, 19(1), pp. 78-79

  • 2021, Mitch, D. and Cappelli, G. (eds.), “Globalization and the Rise of Mass Education”, Revista de Historia Industrial, vol. 30 (81), pp. 259-262

  • 2019, Boyer, G.R., "The winding road to the welfare state. Economic insecurity & social welfare policy in Britain", Revista de Historia Industrial, 28(77), pp. 181-183

  • 2017, Pons, Jeronia y Vilar, Margarita, "El seguro de salud privado y público en España. Su análisis en perspectiva histórica", Investigaciones de Historia Económica, 13 (1) 

  • 2015, Tortella Casares, G. (dir.), “Historia del seguro en España”, Investigaciones de Historia Económica, vol. 11 (3), pp. 197-198

  • 2012, Murphy, John, “A decent provision. Australian welfare policy, 1870 to 1949”, Revista de Historia Industrial, 49 (2), pp. 201-204

  • 2012, Jerònia Pons Pons and María Ángeles Pons Brías (coordinators) “Investigaciones históricas sobre el Seguro español”, Investigaciones de Historia Económica, vol. 8 (2), pp. 120-121

  • 2010, Steensland, B., “The Failed Welfare Revolution. America’s Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy”, Revista de Historia Industrial, 44 (3), pp. 197-199

  • 2009, Haggard, S. y Kaufman, R., “Development, Democracy and Welfare States. Latin America, East Asia and Eastern Europe”, Revista de Historia Industrial, 40 (2), pp. 201-204

Working papers (link)