I am a poverty scholar at heart and an applied economist by training. Currently, 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 an IZA Research Fellow and a member of the research group EQUALITAS.
(Only good) News:
June 2025: New Working Paper! `Sorting' out gender discrimination and disadvantage: Evidence from student evaluations of teaching' (with Lars Lefgren, Richard Patterson, Olga Stoddard and Nicolás Urdaneta Andrade), NBER Working Paper 33911. [link]
February 2025: New Working Paper! 'Child penalties and marriage dissolution' (with Linda Kirkpatrick and Alex Plum), IZA Discussion Paper no. 17658. [link]
January 2025: New Working Paper! 'More than just lunch: School-meal subsidies and language proficiency' (with Samuel Lado), IZA Discussion Paper no. 17631. [link]
January 2025: New Working Paper! 'Gender bias in student evaluations of teaching: Do debiasing campaings work?' (with Camila Zamora), IZA Discussion Paper no. 17632. [link]
November 2024: New funding! 'Paternity leave reforms in Spain: Impacts on fertility and labour market outcomes', Women Institute, Spanish Ministry of Equality (PI).
November 2024: New publication! Ayllón, S.; Brugarolas, P.; Lado, S. (2024). 'New estimates for inequality of opportunity in Europe using elastic net algorithms', Applied Economics Letters, forthcoming.
March 2024: Two new book chapters! Take a look (open access):
- Ayllón, S.; Brugarolas, P.; Lado, S. (2024). ‘ICT use and children’s self-reported life satisfaction’ in Understanding the everyday digital lives of children and young people, ed. H. B. Holmarsdottir, I. Seland, C. Hyggen, M. Roth, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 239-280. [link]
- Ayllón, S.; Lado, S.; Symeonaki, M. (2024). ‘Digitally disengaged and digitally unconfident children in Europe’ in Understanding the everyday digital lives of children and young people, ed. H. B. Holmarsdottir, I. Seland, C. Hyggen, M. Roth, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 27-56. [link]
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 an IZA Research Fellow and a member of the research group EQUALITAS.
(Only good) News:
June 2025: New Working Paper! `Sorting' out gender discrimination and disadvantage: Evidence from student evaluations of teaching' (with Lars Lefgren, Richard Patterson, Olga Stoddard and Nicolás Urdaneta Andrade), NBER Working Paper 33911. [link]
February 2025: New Working Paper! 'Child penalties and marriage dissolution' (with Linda Kirkpatrick and Alex Plum), IZA Discussion Paper no. 17658. [link]
January 2025: New Working Paper! 'More than just lunch: School-meal subsidies and language proficiency' (with Samuel Lado), IZA Discussion Paper no. 17631. [link]
January 2025: New Working Paper! 'Gender bias in student evaluations of teaching: Do debiasing campaings work?' (with Camila Zamora), IZA Discussion Paper no. 17632. [link]
November 2024: New funding! 'Paternity leave reforms in Spain: Impacts on fertility and labour market outcomes', Women Institute, Spanish Ministry of Equality (PI).
November 2024: New publication! Ayllón, S.; Brugarolas, P.; Lado, S. (2024). 'New estimates for inequality of opportunity in Europe using elastic net algorithms', Applied Economics Letters, forthcoming.
March 2024: Two new book chapters! Take a look (open access):
- Ayllón, S.; Brugarolas, P.; Lado, S. (2024). ‘ICT use and children’s self-reported life satisfaction’ in Understanding the everyday digital lives of children and young people, ed. H. B. Holmarsdottir, I. Seland, C. Hyggen, M. Roth, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 239-280. [link]
- Ayllón, S.; Lado, S.; Symeonaki, M. (2024). ‘Digitally disengaged and digitally unconfident children in Europe’ in Understanding the everyday digital lives of children and young people, ed. H. B. Holmarsdottir, I. Seland, C. Hyggen, M. Roth, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 27-56. [link]