I am an Associate Professor (tenured) at the Department of Economics at the Universitat de Girona (Spain). I obtained my PhD at the Applied Economics Department at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in 2009. Previously, I graduated from a MSc in European Social Policy at the London School of Economics and I hold a BSc in Economics and another one in Journalism at UAB.

Most of my research focuses on the Economics of Poverty and Inequality, Economics of the Family, Labour Economics, Health Economics and Applied Microeconometrics.

I am a member of the research groups EQUALITAS and EDReG.

(Only good) News:
October 2021: As of October 2021, I am an IZA Research Fellow.
October 2021: New publication (by invitation): Ayllón, S. (2021). 'L'impacte de la COVID-19 en la pobresa a Catalunya', Nota d'Economia, 106, 121-131 (in Catalan). [link]
July 2021: You can read my latest post in the Catalan blog '5 cèntims' on online teaching and gender bias (here) (in Catalan).
April 2021: New publication accepted! Ayllón, S.; Valbuena, J.; Plum, A. (2021). ‘Youth unemployment and stigmatization over the business cycle in Europe’, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
April 2021: New working paper! "Food insecurity in the US during the pandemic: What can we learn from real-time data? (with S. Lado) [link]

Upcoming presentations:
- ASSA 2022, 7-9 January 2022 (scheduled, online).
- LISER Seminar Series (Luxembourg), 26 April 2022.

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