Labour Economics
Political Economy
Economics of Gender
Development Economics
Can Gender Parity Break the Glass Ceiling? Evidence from a Repeated Randomized Experiment (PDF)
(joint with Manuel Bagues ) Review of Economic Studies , Vol. 77(4), October 2010
Press: Voxeu.org (summary of the paper), 'La Gaceta de los Negocios' (PDF) , 'El País' (PDF) , 'La Vanguardia' (PDF) and 'Cinco Días' (all in Spanish)
Voter Turnout in a Multidimensional Policy Space (PDF)
(joint with Rafael Hortalà-Vallvé ) Economics of Governance , Vol. 12(1), March 2011
Voter Turnout and Electoral Competition in a Multidimensional Policy Space (PDF)
(joint with Rafael Hortalà-Vallvé ) European Journal of Political Economy , Vol. 27(2), June 2011
Are Women Pawns in the Political Game? Evidence from Elections to the Spanish Senate (PDF)
(joint with Manuel Bagues ) Journal of Public Economics , Vol. 26(3-4), 2012
Press: Voxeu.org (summary of the paper), Peruprensa.org (in Spanish), Nadaesgratis.es (in Spanish)
Politicians' Luck of the Draw: Evidence from the Spanish Christmas Lottery (PDF)
(joint with Manuel Bagues ) Journal of Political Economy , Vol. 124(5), 2016
Press: Nadaesgratis.es (in Spanish), Diari de Balears (in Catalan) and Levante (in Spanish)
The Effect of Ballot Order: Evidence from the Spanish Senate
(joint with Manuel Bagues )
Top Civil Service: Meritocracy or Nepotism?
(joint with Manuel Bagues )
Performance Pay and Judicial Production: Evidence from Spain
(joint with Manuel Bagues )
Gender and Overconfidence in Selection Processes: Evidence from Public Examinations
(joint with Manuel Bagues )
Operationalizing Pro-Poor Growth: India Case Study
(joint with Tim Besley and Robin Burgess, LSE)
The Policy Origins of Poverty and Growth in India
(joint with Tim Besley and Robin Burgess), Chapter 3 in Delivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor Growth , ed. by Tim Besley and Louise Cord (Palgrave Macmillan and The World Bank, 2006) (a shorter version has been published as an article in Poverty in Focus, March 2007, published by the International Poverty Centre, United Nations Development Programme), pp.18-19
Selección y Rendimiento en la Función Pública
(joint with Manuel Bagues )
Chapter in La Ley de Economía Sostenible y las reformas estructurales: 25 propuestas (PDF), ed. by Manuel Bagues , Jesús Fernández-Villaverde and Luis Garicano (eBook on Spain's 'Sustainable Economy' Act, published by FEDEA, March 2010), pp. 134-39 (in Spanish). The chapter was cited by the Spanish newspaper 'Cinco Días' .