Working Papers

Female Promotions and the Academic Pipeline: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (joint with Milan Makany, Giulia Vattuone and Natalia Zinovyeva)
Latest version: here
CEPR Discussion paper 21325, IZA DP 18477, RF Berlin DP 092/26
Non technical summary: nadaesgratis.es (in Spanish)

Gender Segregation in Childhood Friendships and the Gender-Equality Paradox (with Natalia Zinovyeva)
Latest version: here
CEPR Discussion paper 20426, IZA DP 17988, CAGE WP 761/2025, RF Berlin DP 38/25
Non technical summary: voxeu.org,nadaesgratis.es (in Spanish)

Work in Progress

Unpacking the Incumbency Effect: Electoral Advantage and Coalition Building in Government Formation (with Margot Belguise and Iacopo Monterosa)

Gender and Political Coalitions (joint with Pamela Campa)

Published Papers

Sex, Lies and Birth Statistics: The Mysterious Case of the Spanish Missing Women (with Carmen Villa)
Non technical summary: nadaesgratis.es (in Spanish), IZA@LISER news (in English)
Accepted for publication at Demography
[Replication package]

Gender Equality Through Turnover: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Term Limit Reforms in Italy (with Carolina Kansikas)
Journal of Public Economics, 2026, Vol. 259, 105667.
Non technical summary: lavoce.info (in Italian)
[Replication package]

Minimum Legal Drinking Age and Educational Outcomes (with Carmen Villa)
Journal of Health Economics, 2025, Vol. 104, 103078.
Non technical summary: voxeu.org, IZA News Room, nadaesgratis.es (in Spanish)
[Replication package]

Gender Differences in Cooperation in the U.S. Congress? Replicating Gagliarducci and Paserman (2022) (with Pamela Campa and Giulian Etingin-Frati)
Manuscript prepared upon invitation from the Institute for Replication.
Economic Inquiry, 2025, http://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.70031
Awarded the Christiaan Huygens Reproduction and Replication Prize
[Replication package]

The Psychological Gains from COVID-19 Vaccination (joint with Velichka Dimitrova)
Journal of Public Economics, 2025, Vol. 242, 105304.

Interregional Contact and National Identity (joint with Chris Roth)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, Vol. 15(3), 322-50.
Non technical summary: voxeu.org (in English), nadaesgratis.es (in Spanish)
Online appendix, DATA

Can Gender Quotas in Candidate Lists Empower Women? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design (joint with Pamela Campa)
Journal of Public Economics, 2021, Vol. 194, 104315.
[DATA]
Non-technical discussion: nadaesgratis.es, voxeu.org

Comment on "Women and Power: Unpopular, Unwilling, or Held Back?" (joint with Pamela Campa)
Journal of Political Economy, 2020, Vol. 128(5), 2010-2016.

What You Don't Know... Can't Hurt You? A Natural Field Experiment on Relative Performance Feedback in Higher Education (joint with Ghazala Azmat, Antonio Cabrales and Nagore Iriberri)
Management Science, 2019, Vol. 65(8), 3714-3736.
Non-technical summary (in Spanish): nadaesgratis.es

Connections in Scientific Committees and Applicants' Self-selection: Evidence from a Natural Randomized Experiment (joint with Mauro Sylos Labini and Natalia Zinovyeva)
Labour Economics, 2019, Vol. 58, 81-97.

A Walk on the Wild Side: `Predatory' Journals and Information Asymmetries in Scientific Evaluations (joint with Mauro Sylos-Labini and Natalia Zinovyeva)
Research Policy, 2019, 48(2), 462-477, special issue on "Academic misconduct".
Non-technical discussion:lavoce.info (in Italian)

Does the Gender Composition of Scientific Committees Matter? (joint with Mauro Sylos Labini and Natalia Zinovyeva)
American Economic Review, 2017, Vol. 107(4), pp. 1207-1238
[DATA] [Slides presentation]
Note: This paper combines information that was previously reported in two different working papers: [WP Italy], [WP Spain]
Non-technical summary: Research Highlight of the AEA; Press release of the EEA; Times Higher Education; 15 min. video presentation

Politicians’ Luck of the Draw: Evidence from the Spanish Christmas Lottery (joint with Berta Esteve-Volart)
Journal of Political Economy, 2016, Vol. 124(5), pp. 1269-1294
[DATA] [Slides presentation]
Non-technical summary: nadaesgratis.es (Spanish,English)

The Role of Connections in Academic Promotions (joint with Natalia Zinovyeva)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2015, Vol. 7(2), pp. 264-292
[DATA]
Non-technical summary: VoxEU.org, LaVoce.info

Why Do I Like People Like Me? (joint with María José Pérez Villadóniga)
Journal of Economic Theory, 2013, Vol. 148(3), pp. 1292-1299

Are Women Pawns in the Political Game? Evidence from Elections to the Spanish Senate (joint with Berta Esteve-Volart)
Journal of Public Economics, 2012, Vol. 96(3), pp. 387-399
Non-technical summary: VoxEU.org, nadaesgratis.es

Do Recruiters Prefer Applicants with Similar Skills? Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment (joint with María José Pérez Villadóniga)
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012, Vol. 82(1), pp. 12-20

Can Gender Parity Break the Glass Ceiling? Evidence from a Repeated Randomized Experiment (joint with Berta Esteve-Volart)
Review of Economic Studies, 2010, Vol. 77(4), pp. 1301-1328       [DATA]
Non-technical summary of the paper: VoxEU.org, sociedadabierta

Do On-Line Labor Market Intermediaries Matter? The impact of AlmaLaurea on University-to-Work transition (joint with Mauro Sylos Labini)
David H. Autor (ed), NBER volume Studies of Labor Market Intermediation, 2009, pp. 127-154. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
A translation of this article into Italian appeared at L'università in transizione: Laureati vecchi e nuovi alla luce della reforma, edited by Andrea Cammelli. Bologna: Il Mulino.

Differential Grading Standards and University Funding: Evidence from Italy (joint with Mauro Sylos Labini and Natalia Zinovyeva)
CESifo Economic Studies, 2008, Vol. 54 (2), pp. 149-176
A translation of this article into Russian appeared at Вопросы образования, №4 за 2009 год
Non-technical summary: VoxEU.org

Other Work

Chapter on Gender Quotas (in Spanish) in the Handbook de Economía de Género (with Natalia Zinovyeva)
Published by Fundación Ramón Areces, 2026.

Evaluation Report `Conect-As: Itineraries of Digital Social Inclusion in Asturias'
Part of the evaluation conducted by the `Laboratorio de Politicas de Inclusion en base a la Evidencia Cientifica', 2024.

Report on Gender Differences in Time Use in Academia (in Spanish) (with Irma Clots-Figueras and Natalia Zinovyeva)
5th Newsletter of COSME (Comité Sobre la Situación de la Mujer en Economía), December 2017.

Performance Pay and Judicial Production: Evidence from Spain (joint with Berta Esteve-Volart)
Non-technical summary of the paper: nadaesgratis.es

The Effect of Ballot Order: Evidence from the Spanish Senate (joint with Berta Esteve-Volart)
Non-technical summary of the paper: nadaesgratis.es