Education and the life expectancy gender gap
Cristina Bellés-Obrero, Sergi Jimenéz-Martín and Judit Vall-Castelló investigate whether education equally affects the life expectancy of women and men.
Topic Archive: Health Economics
Mothers’ Care: Early Childhood Health Shocks and Parental Investment
Cristina Bellés-Obrero, Antonio Cabrales, Sergi Jiménez-Martín and Judit Vall-Castello find that maternal vigilance compensates for the negative effects of a Spanish child labor reform.
Video: The Causal Effect of Public Policy and Income on Child Health and Human Capital (ERC Consolidator Grant)
Libertad González discusses her ERC Consolidator Grant project in this short video
Summer reading: VoxEU roundup
Researchers in the Barcelona GSE community have written several widely-read articles on CEPR’s policy portal, VoxEU.
Inquiries on the SAAD: Learning the impact of informal caregiving subsidies through the Spanish reforms
Joan Costa-Font, Sergi Jiménez-Martín, and Cristina Vilaplana Prieto investigate the impact of the Spanish universal caregiving allowance (SAAD) on the supply of informal caregiving and on intergenerational transfers within households.
Does unemployment lead to a decrease in mental health?
A new study by Lídia Farré, Francesco Fasani, and Hannes Mueller suggests that an increase in the unemployment rate, caused by the collapse of the Spanish construction sector, led to a drastic increase in mental disorders.
