About me
I am an applied microeconomist with research interests in gender, health, and education economics. My work explores how to enhance intergenerational mobility and reduce inequality of opportunity. I use administrative and survey microdata and apply experimental and quasi-experimental methods to uncover causal mechanisms that shape human capital formation and labor market outcomes. My current research agenda includes: – Health: The causal impact of maternal secondary school curricula on infant health at birth. – Education: The effectiveness of AI-driven educational technology in improving academic performance and reducing socio-economic gaps. – Gender: How conceptualizations of childcare shape the motherhood penalty, and how competitive environments contribute to gender disparities in educational and labor outcomes. I completed my PhD in Economics of Education at UCL as a Ramón Areces Scholar. During my PhD, I joined the ERC-funded PARENTIME project at the London School of Economics (LSE), where I also held a postdoctoral position right after. I currently continue my affiliation with LSE with a visiting position and work as a post-doc at Universidad de Sevilla on FAMILY WELLBEING nationally funded project examining family and child well-being. Alongside my research, I actively engage in public dissemination. I have authored policy briefs, blog posts, and media articles (transfer of knowledge) to translate evidence into accessible insights, reaching NGOs, policymakers, and education professionals. I am committed to research training and capacity building. I co-developed The Science Behind the Contribution of a Research Paper workshop as part of the Women in Social and Public Policy Research Hub – Research Skills Development Program: Mentoring for Excellence at the LSE. I have also taught postgraduate Public Economics at UCL, supervise PhD and master's students, and serve as a reviewer for academic journals and national funding bodies. I am the incoming principal investigator of React2Success, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe programme. This project investigates how gender differences in responses to success and failure in high-stakes competitive environments, such as university entrance exams or job applications, shape educational and career trajectories. By linking administrative and experimental data, React2Success takes an interdisciplinary big data approach to understand how behavioural patterns under pressure contribute to persistent gender gaps in leadership and decision-making roles, and to identify policy levers to support more inclusive talent pipelines.
