Do individuals choose their reference groups, i.e. their Joneses, or are they culturally transmitted across generations and through the social environment? We provide evidence that feeds the theoretic...

By Pedro Martins, Pedro Luis Silva, Madalena Temudo and Ana Pinho; Abstract: Vocational education and training (VET) may accelerate employment transitions at the cost of reducing further

La reintroducción de peajes en las carreteras interurbanas ha vuelto a abrir un debate recurrente en la política de infraestructuras. Sin embargo, cualquier decisión sobre su implantación debería ir m...

Abstract. This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational social mobility, migration aspirations, and participation in political demonst

In recent years, urban sustainability initiatives have gained increasing attention as regions and cities seek to mitigate environmental degradation an…

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By David Card, Ana Rute Cardoso and Pedro Luis Silva; Abstract: In the depths of the 2010 financial crisis the Portuguese government enacted a series of reforms in its prescription

This paper examines the effects of minimum wage increases on household consumption, focusing on Spain’s 2019 reform, which raised the wage floor by an…

By Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López, Marianna Magagnoli and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal; Abstract: We estimate how two complementary forms of cycling infrastructure, cycle lanes and bike-sharing stations, cap...

By Maria Marino, Xavier Ramos and Riccardo Turati; Abstract: This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational social mobility, migration aspirations, and

Our study examines the relationship between business cycles and mortality rates in Italy over the period 2004–2019. Using the unemployment rate as a proxy for macroeconomic conditions, we investigate ...

Con il nuovo Patto europeo su migrazione e asilo si apre la questione di come controllare le frontiere senza indebolire lo stato di diritto. La scelta è tra politiche che governano la mobilità e polit...

Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at University of Chile. I received my PhD in Economics from UCLA in 2023. I am an applied economist with research interests in the fie...

La defensa europea necesita más inversión, pero no necesariamente más monopolios. Javier Asensio, profesor titular de Economía en la UAB, mira al caso histórico de Alcoa para cuestionar la apuesta por...

Des de la vora del Daró és molt més que un llibre de memòries. Nascut a Corçà el 1947 i profundament arrelat a la Bisbal, Joan Cals articula un recorregut que combina el record personal amb la volunta...

This paper examines systematic inequalities in the sorting of students to university degree programs with regards to first-in-family (FIF) to attend u…

Gestire i flussi in entrata di lavoratori stranieri non basta. Si devono creare le condizioni per permettergli di diventare cittadini economicamente e socialmente integrati. Dalla casa alla cittadinan...

The far-reaching distributional effects of global warming: evidence from half a century of climate and inequality data

Dani Rodrik propone reorientar las estrategias públicas de desarrollo productivo hacia las actividades con mayor potencial generador de ocupación: los servicios de atención a mayores

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Department: Economic Structure

I am a Junior Researcher at CREI and a research affiliate at CEPR. I received my PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2017. In 2017/2018, I was a Postdoctoral fellow at the Internation...

By Rubén Poblete-Cazenave; Abstract: In the United States, law enforcement kills three people per day, yet official statistics record only half. Using

By Martín Leites, Xavier Ramos, Cecilia Rodríguez and Joan Vilá; Abstract: We contribute to the very incipient literature that estimates the intergenerational mobility of income from large-scale

By Cristina Bellés-Obrero, Manuel Flores, Pilar García-Gómez, Sergi Jiménez-Martín and Judit Vall-Castelló; Abstract: Spain, with one of the highest life expectancies globally and a rapidly ageing pop...

Assistant Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

​I am an economist  working on child and adolescent development in low-resource settings.  ​I am passionate and committed to research that can contribute to  positive societal change  ...

Peer performance evaluations are an important determinant of hiring and promotion decisions, but how objective are they? To tackle this question, we m…

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El marco que se exige a los aeropuertos es considerablemente distinto al que rige en le ferrocarril, lo que ayuda a entender las diferencias en los resultados de ambas empresas

We evaluate the financial effects of monetary policy over the transition from a fixed to a floating exchange rate regime in Egypt. Using high-frequency identification, we estimate the impact of monet...

Spain operates a ‘competition for the market’ system to award regulated monopoly rights for the provision of intercity bus services. We assess the imp…