Curriculum Vitae - Olga Cantó
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Born 1970, Madrid, Spain
ADDRESS
Departamento de Economía
Facultad de CC. Económicas, Empresariales y Turismo Universidad de Alcalá
Plaza de la Victoria s/n
28802 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) España
Tel: + 34.91.8855223 , Fax: +34.91.8854239 e-mail: [email protected]
web: http://www2.uah.es/ocanto
Member of EQUALITAS: http://www.equalitas.es Member of the Labour Economics Group, UAH
Member of the Environmental Economics Group, UAH
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Income Dynamics and Poverty. Economics of Inequality. Labour market and Gender. Tax-Benefit policies Microsimulation.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in ECONOMICS, European University Institute (EUI), October 1998
“The Dynamics of Poverty in Spain 1985-1992: the Permanent and Transitory Poor”
Supervisor: Prof. John Micklewright; Examiners: Frank Cowell (President, London School of Economics), Brian Nolan (Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin), Andrea Ichino (European University Institute)
B.Sc. in Economics, Universidad de Alcalá, 1993
WORK EXPERIENCE
• Associate Professor (Profesora Contratada Doctora) in Economics, Universidad de Alcalá, from February 2012 onwards -
• Research Officer, Instituto de Estudios Fiscales (Institute of Fiscal Studies, Spanish Ministry of Economy and Finance), October 2008 – October 2011.
• Associate Professor in Economics, Universidade de Vigo, June 2003 – September 2008
• Assistant Lecturer in Economics, Universidade de Vigo, September 1999 - May 2003
• Assistant Lecturer in Economics, Universidad San Pablo – CEU (Alicante), September 1997 – June 1999
TEACHING
PH.D. AND MASTER COURSES
“AN INTRODUCTION TO THE MEASUREMENT OF INEQUALITY AND POVERTY”, Bucharest, Romania,
2008.
“INEQUALITIES IN THE NEW ECONOMY”, Ph. D. course, Universidad de Oviedo, Spring 2006.
“THE ANALYSIS OF THE INCOME DISTRIBUTION BY GENDER”, Universidade de Vigo, Fall 2006.
“INEQUALITY, POVERTY AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME”, Ph. D. course, Universidade de Vigo, Fall 2003, Fall 2005.
“AN INTRODUCTION TO THE MEASUREMENT OF INEQUALITY AND POVERTY”,Master course, Frigiliana,
Málaga, organized by CENTRA in 2003.
“AN INTRODUCTION TO STATA”, Master course in Frigiliana (Málaga), organized by CENTRA in 2003.
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
Macroeconomics, Macroeconomics II, Microeconomics II, Welfare Economics, Economics of the Public Sector, Public economics, Spanish fiscal system, Public sector management, Econometrics (I and II), Statistics.
LANGUAGES
Spanish: Mothertongue.
English: Certificate of Proficiency in English language, University of Cambridge, grade B. German: Mittelstufe I, Göethe Institut.
PUBLICATIONS (IN PEER REFEREED JOURNALS)
Gradín, C., Cantó, O. and Del Río, C. (2015), “Unemployment and spell duration during the Great Recession in the EU”, International Journal of Manpower, 36 (2), 2015, forthcoming.
Gradín, C., Cantó, O. and Del Río, C. (2014), “Measuring employment deprivation in the EU using a household-level index”, Review of Economics of the Household, Volume 12, Number 2, June, (with Carlos Gradín and Coral del Río), published on line DOI 10.1007/s11150-014-9248-7. Arranz, J.M. and Cantó, O. (2012), “Measuring the effect of spell recurrence on poverty dynamics –
evidence from Spain”, The Journal of Economic Inequality: Volume 10, Issue 2 (2012), Page 191-217 (DOI: 10.1007/s10888-011-9191-2).
Gradín, C., Del Rio, C. and Cantó, O. (2012), “Measuring poverty accounting for time”, Review of
Income and Wealth, Volume 58, issue 2, June, pp. 330-354, (DOI:
10.1111/j.1475-4991.2011.00458.x).
Cantó, O., Gradín, C. and Del Río, C. (2012), “La pobreza crónica, transitoria y recurrente en España”, Revista de Economía Aplicada, vol. XX, nº 58, Primavera 2012.
Gradín, C. and Cantó, O. (2012), “Why are child poverty rates so persistently high in Spain?” The
Manchester School, Vol. 80, No. 1, 117–143, January 2012 (DOI:
10.1111/j.1467-9957.2011.02249.x)
Del Río, C., Gradín, C. and Cantó, O. (2011), “The measurement of gender wage discrimination: The distributional approach revisited”, Journal of Economic Inequality, Volume 9, Issue 1 (2011), Page 57 (doi: 10.1007/s10888-010-9130-7)
Gradín, C., Del Río, C. and Cantó, O. (2010), “Gender wage discrimination and poverty in the EU”,
Feminist Economics, vol. 16(2), pp. 73-109.
Gradín, C., Cantó, O. and Del Río, C. (2008), “Inequality, poverty and mobility: Choosing income or consumption as a welfare indicator”, Investigaciones Económicas, Vol. XXXII (2): 169-200. Gradín, C., Del Río, C. and Cantó, O. (2008), “Pobreza y discriminación salarial por razón de género
en España”, Hacienda Pública Española / Revista de Economía Pública, 184 (1-2008): 67-98.
Cantó, O., Del Río, C. and Gradín, C. (2007), “What helps households with children in leaving poverty? Evidence from Spain”, Research on Economic Inequality, Vol. 14: 1-29.
Cantó, O., Gradín, C. and Del Río, C. (2006), “Poverty statics and dynamics: does the accounting period matter?”, International Journal of Social Welfare, 15: Issue 3: 209-218 .
Cantó, O., Gradín, C. and Del Río, C. (2003), “La evolución de la pobreza estática y dinámica en el periodo 1985-1995”, Hacienda Pública Española / Revista de Economía Pública, Volumen 167-(4/2003): 87-119.
Cantó, O. (2003), “Finding out the Reasons to Escape Poverty: the relevance of demographic vs. labour market events in Spain”, Review of Income and Wealth, Series 49, Number 4, December: 569-589.
Cantó, O. and Mercader-Prats, M. (2002), “Child Poverty in Spain from the 70's to the 90's: a static and dynamic approach”, Journal of Applied Social Sciences Studies (Schmollers Jahrbuch), 121 Jg., Vol 4/2002: 543-578.
Cantó, O. (2002), “Climbing out of poverty, Falling back in: Low incomes’ stability in Spain”,
Applied Economics, 34: 1903-1916.
Cantó, O. (2000), “Income mobility in Spain: How much is there?”, Review of Income and Wealth, Series 46, Number 1, March: 85-102.
PUBLICATIONS (OTHER THAN PEER REFEREED JOURNALS, ENGLISH)
Gradín, C., Cantó, O. and Del Río, C. (2015), Poverty over time – empirical findings”, in D’Ambrosio, C. (ed.) Handbook on Research on Economic and Social Well-being,
forthcoming in EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LIMITED.
Cantó, O., Ayala, L., Adiego, M., Levy, H. and Paniagua, M.M. (2014), “Going regional: The effectiveness of different tax-benefit policies in combating child poverty in Spain” in Dekkers, G, Keegan, M. and O’Donoghue, C. (eds.) New Pathways in Microsimulation, ASHGATE, chapter 12: 183-202, ISBN: 9781409469315.
Badenes, N., Burgos, M.J., Cantó, O. and Paniagua, M.M. (2012), “Revenue effects of a CO2 Tax in Spain: An analysis including behavioural response”, in Yábar, A. Herrera, P., Rodríguez, J., Bilbao, I., Eseverri, E. (eds.) Market instruments and sustainable economy, pages 203-218, ISBN: 978-84-8008-356-0.
Adiego, M., Cantó, O., Levy, H. and Paniagua, M.M. (2012), Country Report Spain 2007-2010, EUROMOD, ISER, University of Essex, https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/files/euromod/country-reports/year-3/CR_ES_2007-2010.pdf .
Adam, S., Phillips, D., Smith, S., Bettendorf, L., Boeters, S., Kox, H., Straathof, B., Stuut, K., Baldini, M., Ferrari, M., Giannini, S., Onofri,P., Tomasini, S., Vincenzi, L., Barbone, L., Bird, R., Caro, L. V., Valkonen, T., Määttänen, N., Breuer, C., Ebertz, A., Nam, C., Berger, J., Strohner,L., Myck, M., Bach, S., Beznoska, M., Ochmann, R., Badenes, N., Cantó, O., Labeaga, J., Trannoy, A., Ruiz, N., Denis, V., Decoster, A. and Verwerft, D. (2011), A retrospective evaluation of elements of the EU VAT system: Final report. Study on behalf of the European Commission (ed.), TAXUD/2010/DE/328, FWC, No. TAXUD/2010/CC/104, Institute for Fiscal Studies (Project Leader).
Adiego, M., Cantó, O., Levy, H. and Paniagua, M.M. (2011), Country Report Spain 2006-2009, EUROMOD, ISER, University of Essex, http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/files/euromod/country-reports/CR_ES2006-09_final_5-2-12.pdf
Adiego, M., Cantó, O., Levy, H. and Paniagua, M.M. (2010), Country Report Spain 2005-2008, EUROMOD, ISER, University of Essex, http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/assets/446 .
Cantó, O., Cardoso, A.R. and Jimeno, J.F. (2002), “Earnings Inequality in Spain and Portugal: Contrasts and Similarities” in Cohen, D., Piketty, T. and Saint-Paul Y. (eds.) The New
Economics of Rising Inequalities, CEPR, Oxford University Press.
Cantó, O. and M. Mercader-Prats (2001), “Young people leaving home: the impact on the poverty of children and others in Spain” in Bradbury, B., S. Jenkins and J. Micklewright (eds.) The
Dynamics of Child Poverty in Industrialised Countries, Cambridge University Press.
Jimeno, J., Cantó, O., Cardoso, A., Izquierdo, M. and Farinha, C. (2000), Integration and Inequality: Lessons from the Accessions of Portugal and Spain to the EU in Making Transition Work for
Everyone: Poverty and Inequality in Europe and Central Asia, The World Bank: 1-47.
PUBLICATIONS (OTHER THAN PEER REFEREED JOURNALS, SPANISH, ITALIAN OR GALICIAN)
Cantó, O. (2014), “El papel de las políticas públicas en la lucha contra la pobreza infantil”,
Cantó, O., Cebrián, I. and Moreno, G. (2014), Género y pobreza, Chapter in Castaño, C. (ed.)
Mujeres en la crisis, Ed. Cátedra, forthcoming.
Cantó, O. (2014), “La contribución de las prestaciones sociales a la redistribución”, in Chapter 2 “Distribución de la Renta, Condiciones de Vida y Políticas Redistributivas” VII Informe
sobre exclusión y desarrollo social en España 2014, V. Renes (coord.), Fundación FOESSA
– Cáritas, Madrid. ISBN, documento de trabajo 978-84-8440-630-3. ISBN Informe FOESSA: 978-84-8440-591-7.
Cantó, O. and Ayala, L. (2014), Políticas públicas para reducir la pobreza infantil en España: análisis de impacto, UNICEF Comité Español.
Cantó, O. (2013), “El efecto redistributivo del impuesto sobre la renta y las prestaciones monetarias ante el incremento de la desigualdad de rentas” Presupuesto y Gasto Público, 71/2013:153-170, ISSN: 0210-5977.
Cantó, O. (2013), “La Gran Recesión aumenta la desigualdad económica en España”, Revista
Ahorro, Primavera 2013, FUNCAS: 36-39.
Cantó, O. and García, I. (2013), “La relación entre desempleo y pobreza en la obra de Luis Toharia”, Revista de Economía Laboral, Vol. 10 (1): 48-68.
Cantó, O. (2013), “La capacidad redistributiva del sistema español de prestaciones e impuestos”, número monográfico in Crisis, Desigualdad económica y Mercado de trabajo en España, Papeles de Economía Española, nº 135.
Cantó, O. (2013), “Los efectos redistributivos de las políticas públicas de carácter monetario: un análisis de microsimulación con EUROMOD” chapter 4 in 1er Informe sobre la desigualdad
en España 2013, Fundación Alternativas.
García-Serrano, C.; Arranz, J.M.; Cantó, O. and Malo, M.A. (2012), El sistema español de
protección y la duración efectiva de los episodios de paro, Premio FIPROS 2011/02,
Ministerio de Empleo y Seguridad Social.
Cantó, O. (2012), “Pobreza infantil y políticas públicas” in Pobreza y exclusión social de la infancia,
construcción de la equidad… desarrollo de la infancia, Lázaro, I.E. and Mora, N.L.
Cantó, O. (2011), “Menores en riesgo de pobreza en España”, Revista Crítica, Noviembre-Diciembre 2011, Madrid.
Ayala, L, Cantó, O. and Martínez, R. (2011), “El impacto de la crisis en la pobreza y la desigualdad”, in Laparra, M. and Pérez, B. (coordinadores) El primer impacto de la crisis en la cohesión
social en España, Fundación FOESSA – Cáritas, Madrid, Colección Estudios. ISBN:
978-84-8440-467-5.
Cantó, O. (2011), “El impacto de las políticas públicas monetarias en la infancia” en Las políticas
públicas y la infancia en España: evolución, impactos y percepciones, UNICEF.
Del Río, C., Gradín, C. and Cantó, O. (2011), “Desigualdade e pobreza en Galicia”, in Fernando González Laxe (coord.), A Economía regulatoria [Proyecto Galicia. Serie Economía]. Tomo LXII, Hércules de Ediciones, A Coruña, pp.178-221.
Cantó, O. (2010), “Análisis dinámico de la pobreza en España: principales resultados de la literatura”, Panorama Social, num. 12, segundo semestre: Empleo, desempleo y pobreza, págs. 7-14. ISSN: 1699-6852.
Cantó, O. (2010), “El impacto de la crisis económica sobre los hogares más desfavorecidos”, Revista
Española del Tercer Sector, nº 15, mayo-agosto.
Ayala, L. and Cantó, O. (2009),” Políticas Económicas y Pobreza Infantil” in Análisis y Propuestas
sobre Pobreza Infantil en España, UNICEF, Madrid.
Ayala, L., Azpitarte, F., Bárcena, E., Cantó, O., Fernández, A., García, A., Gradín, C., Jurado, A., Martín, G., Martínez, R., Navarro, C., Pérez, J., Del Río, C. and Sastre, M. (2008), “Desigualdad, pobreza y privación”, in V. Renes (coord.), VI Informe sobre exclusión y
desarrollo social en España 2008, Fundación FOESSA – Cáritas, Madrid, chapter 2, pp.
87-171.
Del Río, C., Gradín, C. and Cantó, O. (2007), “A discriminación da muller no mercado de traballo e os seus efectos sobre a pobreza”, Revista Galega de Administración Pública - Administración
e Cidadanía, Monográfico: Políticas de igualdade e atención á dependencia: 31-56.
Del Río, C., Gradín, C. and Cantó, O. (2007), “La distribución de la renta en Galicia en el marco de la Eurorregión”, Papeles de Economía Española, nº 22, Economía de las Comunidades Autónomas, pp. 241-251.
Gradín, C.; Cantó, O.; Del Río, C. and Azpitarte, F. (2007), “A Pobreza e a Exclusión Social en Galicia”, Xunta de Galicia, Informe para a Vicepresidencia da Igualdade e do Benestar Social de diagnóstico sobre a situación de pobreza e exclusión social en Galicia durante o periodo de aplicación do I Plan Galego de Inclusión Social.
Gradín, C.; Del Río, C. and Cantó, O., (2006), “Desigualdade, Pobreza e Territorio en Galicia”, Informe de Coxuntura da Economía Galega, 4º Trimestre, Centro de Investigación Económica y Financiera (CIEF)-Fundación Caixa Galicia: 39-46.
Gradín, C., Del Río, C. and Cantó, O. (2006), La distribución de la renta en Galicia. Análisis
territorial de la desigualdad y la pobreza, Centro de Investigación Económica y Financiera,
Fundación Caixa Galicia, ISBN: 84-96494-59-4.
Cantó, O. (2006), “Pobreza y exclusión social de la infancia en España”, capítulo 10, pp:185-201, en Vidal, F. (director) V Informe FUHEM de políticas sociales: La exclusión social y estado del
bienestar en España, Fundación FUHEM e Icaria editorial, ISBN: 84-7426-848-6.
Gradín, C., Del Río, C. and Cantó, O. (2004), “Aspectos conceptuales en la medición de la desigualdad y la pobreza económica”, SEMATA, Ciencias Sociais e Humanidades (ISSN: 1137-9669), vol. 16, pp. 59-78.
Cantó, O. and Toharia, L. (2003), “Las prestaciones por desempleo en España: eficiencia y equidad”,
Hacienda Pública Española, Monográfico: Las nuevas fronteras de la protección social. Eficiencia y equidad en los sistemas de garantía de rentas: 125-156.
Gago, A., Cantó, O., Del Río, C. and Gradín, C. (2002), “La política fiscal en España durante el periodo 1982-1996”, Hacienda Pública Española, Monografía titulada “Historia de la Hacienda en el siglo XX”, pp. 253-288.
Cantó, O. (2002), “Aspectos metodológicos de los estudios económicos sobre pobreza y desigualdad” in Del Río, C. and Lago, S. (Coordinadores), Pobreza e Inclusión Social en
Galicia, Instituto Universitario de Estudios e Desenvolvemento de Galicia, Documentos de
Traballo - Xornadas – 1, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela.
Cantó, O., Del Río, C. and Gradín, C. (2002), “Il sostegno ai nuclei familiari derivante dai vari strumenti agevolati: confronto fra la Spagna e altri paesi dell’Unione europea”, in Atella, V. (ed.), Sesto rapporto sulla distribuzione e redistribuzione del reddito in Europa, 2000-2001,
Consiglio Nazionale dell'Economia e del Lavoro (CNEL), Documenti 21, Capítulo 8, págs. 313-348, Roma.
Cantó, O. and Mercader-Prats, M. (2001), “Pobreza y familia: ¿son los jóvenes una ayuda o una carga?”, Papeles de Economía Española, 88: 151-166.
Cantó, O. (2001), “La estabilidad de los ingresos de los hogares de rentas bajas en España: La salida y la re-entrada en la pobreza” in Labeaga, J.M y Mercader, M. (eds.) Desigualdad,
Redistribución y Bienestar: una aproximación a partir de la microsimulación de reformas,
pp.131-152, Instituto de Estudios Fiscales, Madrid.
Cantó, O. and Mercader, M. (2000) La pobreza infantil en España: alcance, evolución y duración. Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales/UNICEF. ISBN: 84-7850-987-9.
Cantó, O., Del Río, C. and Gradín, C. (2000) “La situación de los estudios sobre desigualdad y pobreza en España”, Cuadernos de Gobierno y Administración, Número 2 – Especial monográfico sobre Pobreza y desigualdad: enfoques, fuentes y acción pública: 25-94.
Cantó, O. (1997) “Desempleo y Pobreza en la España de los 90”, Papeles de Economía Española, Septiembre, 78: 88-108.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Cantó, O. and Ruiz, D. (2014) The contribution of income mobility to economic insecurity in the US and Spain during the Great Recession, ECINEQ WP 2014-345.
http://www.ecineq.org/milano/WP/ECINEQ2014-345.pdf
Ayala, L., Cantó, O. and Rodríguez, J.G. (2011) Poverty and the business cycle: The role of the intra-household distribution of unemployment, ECINEQ WP 2011-222.
http://www.ecineq.org/milano/WP/ECINEQ2011-222.pdf
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES PARTICIPATION
Workshop on Understanding Changes in Income Inequality in the Austerity Period, ISER –
University of Colchester, United Kingdom, September 2014.
33rd General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands, August 2014.
3rd International Conference of the International Society on Microsimulation Analysis, IMA 2011, Stockholm, June 2011.
31st General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, St
Gallen, Switzerland, August 2010.
The Low Pay, Low Skill and Low Income (LOPSI) Cross-cutting Conference, Milan, 26-27 June
2009.
XXIII Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics, Sevilla, 11-12 June
2009.
Conference on “Frontiers of poverty Analysis”, UNU-WIDER Marina Congress Center, Helsinki,
September 2008
II Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, (ECINEQ), Berlin, July 2007.
WELLCHI Conference: “The well-being of children: the impact of changing family forms, working conditions of parents, social policy and legislative measures”, Barcelona, February 2007. International Seminar on “Increasing work and income among low income households: Drawing
lessons from EU and US reforms”, Madrid, June 2006,
I Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, (ECINEQ), Palma de Mallorca, July
2005.
28th General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, Cork,
August 2004.
16th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics, Bilbao, June 2002. International Conference on Microeconometric Models and Simulation Tools for Fiscal Policy ,
Madrid, May 2002.
15th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics, Athens, June 2001. Workshop on Fighting poverty and inequality through tax-benefit reform: Empirical approaches,
Barcelona, November, 2001.
Fifth Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Alicante, July 2000.
LXVI Colloque International Association d’Econometrie Appliquee, Emploi, Inégalités et politiques sociales, Pau, Mayo 1999.
CEPR Workshop on “Social Inequality and Mobility”, A Coruña, April 1998.
X Convegno Nazionale dell’Economia del Lavoro. Associazione Italiana degli Economisti del Lavoro. Bologna, October 1995.
9th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics, Lisbon, June 1995.
INVITED SEMINARS • University of Oxford
• Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
• Universidad de Alicante
• Instituto de Estudios Fiscales, Madrid
• Institut für Volkswirtschaftlehre, Kiel
• Universidad de Salamanca
• Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
• Universidad de Murcia
• Universidad de Vigo
• UNICEF–ICDC, Florencia
• Universidad de Valladolid
• Universidad de Alcalá
• London School of Economics, STICERD
• University of Essex, ISER
• Universidad del País Vasco
PEER REVIEW FOR JOURNALS
(SSCI) Population Research and Policy Review, International Journal of Manpower, Journal of
Applied Economics, Empirical Economics, Review of Income and Wealth, Labour Economics, Applied Economics, Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of Population Economics, Statistics and Operations Research Transactions, Investigaciones Económicas, Hacienda Pública Española – Revista de Economía Pública, Revista de Economía Aplicada, Spanish Economic Review, SERIEs, Social Science and Medicine.
(Other) Eurasian Economic Review, International Journal of Microsimulation, Journal of Income
Development Studies, Revista de Economía Laboral, Cuadernos Económicos del ICE, Ekonomiaz, Revista de Estudios Regionales, Documentación Social.
REFEREE FOR RESEARCH PROJECTS • BELSPO Belgium, 2013
• Plan de Investigación del Gobierno Vasco, 2013
• Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg 2012, 2014
• Spanish Research Evaluation Agency, ANEP (2008-2013)
• Plan de Investigación, Junta de Andalucía, 2009
SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS
• Alcalá-Santander Fellowship to visit Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall) during 3 months, UK, Michaelmas 2014.
• Training and Mobility of Researchers (European Union) for 8 weeks stay at Institute for Social and Economic Research (University of Essex), July 1999.
• European University Institute Scholarship for completion of Ph.D. in Economics, 1995-1997.
• Spanish Ministry of Education “Salvador de Madariaga” Scholarship for comparative studies including Spain, 1995-1996.
• Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Scholarship for completing doctorate courses at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy 1993-1995.
• Spanish Ministry of Education studentship, Programa Específico de Promoción General del Conocimiento (Programa DEECO), 1993.
• Erasmus studentship, University of Leeds (United Kingdom), 1992-1993.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
• Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, 2014 - 2017, Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, ECO2013-46516-C4-2-R, “Poverty, Inequality and Segregation: New Methods, New Evidence”, Carlos Gradín (project head of the University of Vigo group). Coordinated Project with various Universities in Madrid and Barcelona.
• April 2013 - December 2013, Researcher and coordinator of a research Project on “Child poverty and public policies in Spain” UNICEF (joint with Luis Ayala, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos).
• December 2010 – December 2013, Programas Sectoriais de Investigación Aplicada, Xunta de Galicia, Código 10SEC300023PR: “New approaches to the analysis of labour market exclusion”, Carlos Gradín (project head).
• Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, January 2011 - December 2013, Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, ECO2010-21668-C03-03 “Measuring social exclusion and wellbeing: labour market, poverty dynamics and wealth”, Coral del Río (project head of the University of Vigo group). Coordinated Project with various Universities in Madrid and Barcelona. Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, “Social Exclusion in Spain and the EU: Wealth distribution, income dynamics and the labour market”, Olga Cantó (project head of the University of Vigo group and general project coordinator), 2007-2010. Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, “Labour Market and Social Exclusion in Spain and the EU”, Carlos Gradín (project head), 2004-2007.
• Spanish Institute of Fiscal Studies, “Measuring the effect of spell recurrence on poverty dynamics” with J.M. Arranz, Olga Cantó (Project head), 2006-2007.Xunta de Galicia, Vicepresidencia de Igualdade e do Benestar “Poverty and Social Exclusion in Galicia” for the “Informe para o Plan Galego de Inclusión social 2007-2013”. Research group: Carlos Gradín, Olga Cantó, Coral del Río and Francisco Azpitarte.
• Fundación Caixagalicia. “Income Distribution in Galicia (1999-2004): A detailed Geographical Area Analysis”, 2004-05. Carlos Gradín (project head).
• Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Instituto de la Mujer, "Labour Market, Poverty and Gender: new insights”, 2003-2004.
• Spanish Institute of Fiscal Studies, "Methodological aspects of measuring poverty dynamics: income and expenditure as individual welfare indicators” Olga Cantó (project head) 2002-2003.
• Spanish Institute of Fiscal Studies, “New lines of research in the analysis of poverty: from statics to dynamics”, Olga Cantó (project head), 2001-2002.
• Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology. “Public Policy Analysis, Redistribution and Growth”, M.A. López (project head). 2001-2003.
• Department for Health and Social Services, Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid, “Recent evolution of Health Expenditures of Spanish Households”, J. Ruiz-Castillo (project head), 2001.
• Spanish Ministry of Education. “Economic Analysis and Public Policy: Fundamentals, Design and Evaluation” M.A. López (project head), 2000.
• UNICEF – Innocenti centre, “Children in and out of poverty”, Stephen Jenkins, John Micklewright and Bruce Bradbury (directors of research), 1999-2001.
SUPERVISOR OF PH.D. THESIS
“ESSAYS ON WELL-BEING: THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH” by Francisco Azpitarte Raposeiras, European Doctorate, Universidade de Vigo, Dpto. Economía Aplicada. (jointly with C. Del Río and C. Gradín). Thesis committee: Conchita D’Ambrosio (President), Ajit Zacharias, Xavier Ramos and Carlos Farinha, 3rd July 2009.
PH.D. THESIS COMMITTEE MEMBER
“Economic Instruments for Water Management in Spanish mediterranean basins” by Carlos Dionisio Pérez Blanco, Universidad de Alcalá, Dpto. Economía, 7th February 2014.
“Essays on youth economic well-being and poverty dynamics modelling” by Sara Ayllón Gatnau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Dpto. Economía Aplicada, 14th July 2009.
“Essays on dynamics of earnings in Spain” by María Cervini Pla, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Dpto. Economía Aplicada, 17th July 2009.
SUPERVISOR OF MASTER THESIS
Ana Carolina Aguilar, Máster Universitario en Análisis Económico Aplicado, Universidad de Alcalá, September 2012: “Monetary poverty and material deprivation in Spain: Are there differences
between the Boom and the Crisis?”
CONFERENCE ORGANISATION • XVIII Encuentro de Economía Pública, Málaga, 2011.
• XVII Encuentro de Economía Pública, Murcia, 2010.
• International Workshop on Poverty and Social Exclusion Dynamics, Vigo, July 2006.
• International day on Fighting against Poverty, Vigo, October 2005.
• III Workshop on Gender and the Labour Market, Vigo, May 2005.
• II Workshop on Gender and the Labour Market, Vigo, May 2004.
• I Workshop on Gender and the Labour Market, Vigo, May 2003.
• IX Spanish Congress on Public Economics, Vigo, February 2002.
• Research Meeting on Income Distribution, Vigo, April 2000.
SHORT RESEARCH VISITS
• January-February 1996, London School of Economics and Political Science, STICERD, UK, “The dynamics of the income distribution”, 5 weeks.
• July-August 1999, Institute for Social and Economic Research, ISER, U. of Essex, UK, “Comparative dynamics of the income distritution”, 8 weeks.
• July 2010, Institute for Fiscal Studies, UK, “Microsimulation techniques for the evaluation of fiscal policies”, 2 weeks.
• July 2011, London School of Economics and Political Science, STICERD, UK, “Evaluating the effect of monetary transfers on poverty”, 3 weeks.
• July 2013, Institute of Economic and Social Research, University of Essex, “Evaluating child-related policies in the reduction of poverty with EUROMOD”, 3 weeks.
• September-December 2014, University of Oxford, Lady Margaret Hall, 3 months.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
• Invited Conference Speaker “IV Congreso de la Red Española de Política Social – REPS - EspaNET”, Las Políticas Sociales entre crisis y post-crisis”, 2ª Conferencia Plenaria: “The social impact of the crisis: labour market, poverty and inmigration” 6th June 2013.
• Coordinator of the monograph in the journal Papeles de Economía Española on “Crisis, Inequality and the labour market in Spain”, number 135.
• Invited Conference Speaker at “16 Fórum FEDAIA”, Combatre la pobresa infantil es feina de tots, presenting “The impact of public policies on child poverty”, Barcelona 18-19 October
2012.
• Coordinator of the EUROMODUpdate national team for Spain, University of Essex. February 2009 – February 2012. Financed by DG-Employment, European Commission. See:
http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/research/euromod/developing-euromod/euromodupdate/euromod-national-teams .
• Member of the Advisory Council of the IELE - Instituto de Estudios Laborales y del Desarrollo Económico, Universidad de Salta, Salta, Argentina (http://www.economicas.unsa.edu.ar/ielde/ing/index.php)
• Academic Secretary of the SSCI Journal Hacienda Pública Española /Revista de Economía
Pública since January 2009 until April 2011.
• “Short-Term International Senior Expert” in “Strengthening the capacity of Ministry of Labour, Social Solidarity and Family of Romania in the field of social assistance and services”. Teaching a course on “Measuring poverty”, Bucarest (Romania) 28-31/01/2008 and 18-21/02/2008. Social Observatory-Payment Agency contract in Romania, Bernard Brunhes International - BPI Group, 25/01-17/04/2008.
• Invited speaker at “Workshop on Child Poverty”, organized by UNICEF, presenting “Economic policy and child poverty”, Madrid, March 2009.
• Invited speaker to the UNICEF meeting in Ditchley Park (Ditchley Declaration) for evaluating Report Card 7 on “Child Well-being in rich countries”, June 2007, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
• Round Table speaker at Workshop on “Dynamic Analysis using Panel Data: Applications to Poverty and Social Exclusion”, Laboratorio R. Revelli, Turin, Italy, June 2007.
• Member of the scientific committee for the Reports on Social Development in Spain since 2008.
