About Me

Welcome to my webpage!

I am Associate (Tenured) Professor of Economics at IE University School of Politics, Economics and Global Affairs (SPEGA), Madrid. I am also a Research Fellow at IZA&LISER and a member of the International Health Economics Association.

I am an empirical microeconomist working on the economics of the family, gender, health, and public policy evaluation. I combine administrative data and large-scale survey data to analyze the impact of public policies on gender outcomes — with a particular focus on labor market behaviour, health, marriage, and fertility decisions. I am also interested in how policies and social contexts shape gender norms and their effect on marriage, fertility, and well-being.

You can find my Google Scholar profile here, my ResearchGate profile here, and my ORCID record here.

To learn more about our department's research and seminar series, visit the IE Economics Research Group website.

NEWS:

• 2026 Two papers out this year: “Alimony and Marital Commitment: the Unintended Consequences of Alimony Reform on Assortative Matching” (with Jennifer Roff) in the Review of Economics of the Household, and “Bargaining under Threats: The Effect of Joint Custody Laws on Intimate Partner Violence” (with Natalia Nollenberger and Jennifer Roff) in the American Journal of Health Economics.
• 2026 Two new IZA & LISER working papers: “Private Schooling and Fertility Decline in India” (with Trong-Anh Trinh, IZA DP No. 18771) and “Childhood Exposure to Joint Custody Reforms and Adult Family Formation” (with Sébastien Fontenay, IZA DP No. 18831), the latter featured in What we are reading by the Strengthening Families Research Initiative, University of Notre Dame. Abstracts on the Working Papers page.