Working papers
2009. "Income distribution changes across the 1990s expansion: the role of taxes and transfers" (with Máximo Camacho). Paper submited to Economic Letters.
We analyze the redistributive role played by governments during the 1990s expansionary economic cycle in several OECD countries. We find a duality among countries: while governments in the Euro-area play a crucial role in the redistributive process, government interventions reduce the equalitarian effect of the market in the Anglo-Saxon economies.
2008. “Household Consumption, Child Nutrition, and Health Shocks”. (with Marcos Vera-Hernandez). IVIE Working Paper series, WP-EC 2008-14.
This paper investigates the effect of health shocks on household consumption and child nutrition. We find that several items of household consumption, including medical expenditure, food consumption, and total consumption, increase following a recent illness event of an adult usually active in the labour market. In contrast to this, we find that girls' weight is negatively affected, as a consequence of the same illness event. The results have implications for the literature on testing for full insurance because it usually relies on household consumption net of medical expenditures as a measure of welfare.
Work in progress
"The evolution of Child Labour during the post-NAFTA period".
This paper analyses the evolution of child labour rates in Mexico joint with the probability of attending to school for a period of ten years after the introduction of the NAFTA . A series of bivariate probit regressions identifies the determinants of child labour and school attendance at the individual and household level and control for the presence of PROGRESA, fluctuation of GDP and Foreign Direct Investment by federal states of Mexico.
This paper focus its attention on two major questions. First, it identifies who are the winners and who are the losers of the Spanish 1990s expansion in terms of inequality. Second, it analyses the effects of the Spanish transfers system on income distribution across this period in order to show the efforts made by the government in the redistributive process. We develop the analysis in two step. Firstly, we consider the household as the unit of analysis and we show how inequality changes during the Spanish 90s expansion. Moreover, as a contribution of the paper, we consider two different definition of income which allows to show how the Spanish transfers system revers the effect. Secondly, we replicate the analysis by introducing an age and gender dichotomy in our sample with the purpose of identifying the loser and the winner of this economic expansion and the efforts of the government expenditure on these groups.
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