Working papers and Ongoing Research:
Education and Gender:
Can Single-Sex Schooling Shape the Gender Differences in Response to Pressure? (Evidence from South Korea), with Caterina Calsamiglia, Daniel Fernández-Kranz and Junhee Lee. (Draft available).
When Boys and Girls Mingle: Impact of Single-Sex Schooling on Gender Polarization, Marriage, Fertility, and the Division of Household Chores, with Daniel Fernández-Kranz and Jay Kang.
Health and Aging:
Thinking, Fast and Slow: How Response Times Can Predict Cognitive Decline and (Bad) Financial Decision-Making at Older Ages, with Oleksandra Cheipesh and Pedro Mira. (Draft available, Version presented at NBER SI in July 2025 here.)
The Burden of Informal Care: Does Looking After Aging Parents Weaken Social Ties?, with Zenghao Chen and Pedro Mira. (Draft available)
Mental Health and Later-Life Labor Outcomes: Causal Evidence from Exogenous Changes in Social Networks, with Moritz Osterhuber and Pedro Mira.
In Utero Exposure to the 2003 French "Canicule", with Daniel Rees.
Ideological Vaccines, with Agustín Casas.
RCTs (more detail on the "Inclusion Policy Evaluation" in Spain here):
Bridging Welfare and Work: Assessing Intensive Job Placement for Minimum Income Recipients, with Laura Hospido and Julia Marti-Llobet. (See IZA WP)
Come Together: Fighting Social Exclusion Through Comprehensive Care , with Laura Hospido and Julia Marti-Llobet.
Main Publications:
Motherhood and the Allocation of Talent, with Inés Berniell, Lucila Berniell, Dolores de la Mata, María Edo, Matilde Machado, and Mariana Marchionni. Applied Economics, 1–17, October 2024. (Open Access Article or IZA WP).
Social isolation, Health Dynamics, and Mortality: Evidence across 21 European Countries, with Pedro Mira, Journal of Population Economics (IZA WP), July 2023.
The Covid-19 Curtain: Can Past Communist Regimes Explain the Vaccination Divide in Europe?, with Inés Berniell, Anne Laferrère, Pedro Mira, and Liza Pronkina. Social Science and Medicine, Volume 321, March 2023 (IZA WP).
Gender Inequality in Paid and Unpaid Work During Covid-19 Times, with Lídia Farré, Libertad González, and Jennifer Graves. Review of Income and Wealth, Volume 68, Issue 2, pp. 323-347, June 2022 (IZA WP).
Motherhood, Pregnancy, or Marriage Effects?, with Inés Berniell, Lucila Berniell, Dolores de la Mata, María Edo, Matilde Machado, Marianna Marchionni. Economics Letters, Volume 214, May 2022 (IZA WP).
Rank Comparison amongst Teenagers and Suicidal Ideation, with Junhee Lee, Economics and Human Biology, Volume 44, January 2022.
The Health Toll of Import Competition, with Jérôme Adda, The Economic Journal, Volume 130, Issue 630, August 2020. IZA WP.
Surprise Me if You Can: the Influence of Newspaper Endorsements in US Presidential Elections, with A. Casas and A. Trindade. Economic Inquiry, July 2016.
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Selected US-UK Press Coverage: CNN (Spanish), BBC, Washington Post, Pacific Standard, NPR, HuffPost, The Conversation US, NY Mag.
Other International Media Coverage: La Nacion (Ecuador), Publimetro (Chile), Infobae (Argentina), Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), Europe 1, Le Figaro, Slate.fr (France), DN (Portugal), La Jornada (Mexico), Straitstimes (Singapore), Canada Free Press.
Other publications:
Trade-induced Mortality, with Jérôme Adda. L’Actualité Économique, vol. 95, no 1, p. 1-25, 2019.
Altitude as Handicap in Rank-Order Football Tournaments, with A.Casas. Applied Economics Letters, February 2016.
Jubilació Flexible, with Sergi Jiménez and Alfonso Sánchez Martín, Revista econòmica de Catalunya, Vol. 79, p. 29-37, 2019.
To Claim or to Retire: the Social Security Decision of the Employed and Unemployed Workers, International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 38, Issue: 3, pp.392-416, 2017.
Valuing Jobs via Retirement: European Evidence, with Andrew Clark. National Institute Economic Review, July 2009.
Prendre sa Retraite le Plus Tôt Possible: du Rêve à la réalité. Retraite et Société, June 2009.
Book chapters:
Are Unemployed Workers More Likely to Retire? , with Jean-Olivier Hairault and François Langot, in Labour Market and Retirement Interactions, Oxford University Press, November 2016.
Bereavement, Loneliness, and Health, with Pedro Mira, in Health and socio-economic status over the life course, First results from SHARE Waves 6 and 7, De Gruyter, June 2019. PDF.
Housing, living arrangements, and contagion among Europeans aged 50+ (with Anne Laferrère, Pedro Mira and Elizaveta Pronkina), in Social, health, and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the epidemiological control measures. First results from SHARE Corona Waves 1 and 2, De Gruyter, 2023.
RIP:
Retirement and the Marginal Utility of Income, with Andrew Clark. PSE WP.
Flexible Retirement, with Sergi Jimenez Martín and Alfonso Sánchez Martín.