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General Information

Full Name Pablo Brugarolas
Date of Birth 25th March 1996
Languages English, Spanish

Education

  • 2022-
    PhD in Economics
    Universitat de Girona. Girona, Spain
    • Advisor: Sara Ayllón Gatnau.
  • 2021-2022
    M.Sc. in Labor Economics
    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain
    • MSc.thesis - The impact of stay-at-home orders on mental health. Evidence from search-based symptoms (Honours).
  • 2017-2018
    Erasmus program: B.Sc. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics
    University of Warwick. Coventry, United Kingdom
  • 2015-2019
    B.Sc. in International Studies
    Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Madrid, Spain
    • B.Sc. thesis - The effectiveness of the Active Insertion Income program. Evidence from the Region of Murcia (Honours).

Experience

  • 2024
    Visiting Research Student
    Departments of Social Policy, London School of Economics. London, United Kingdom
  • 2021-2022
    Research assistant
    Departments of Economics, Universitat de Girona. Girona, Spain
  • 2020-2021
    Research assistant
    Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Barcelona, Spain
  • 2020
    Research Analyst
    ISEAK Foundation. Bilbao, Spain
  • 2019-2020
    Research assistant
    Institute of Public Policies and Goods, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Madrid, Spain
  • 2017-2018
    Internship
    Institute of Public Policies and Goods, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Madrid, Spain

Projects

  • 2024-
    INEQOP. Inequality and opportunities: The role of food insecurity, education and pro-social preferences, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
    • Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. Madrid, Spain
  • 2022-2023
    Inequality of opportunity in Spain: an estimation using Artificial Intelligence
    • Institute of Fiscal Studies. Madrid, Spain
  • 2021-2022
    The intergenerational transmission of poverty in Spain
    • Spanish Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030. Madrid, Spain
  • 2020-2022
    DigiGen. The impact of technological transformations on the digital generation
    • HORIZON 2020 (DT-TRANSFORMATIONS-07-2019), European Commission. Brussels, Belgium
  • 2020
    Design of regional supplements to the Minimum Living Income in the Canary Islands
    • Government of the Canary Islands. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife
  • 2020
    Youth employment partnerSHIP - evaluation studies in Spain, Hungary, Italy and Poland
    • EEA and Norway Grants. Brussels, Belgium

Academic Awards and Scholarships

  • 2022: IFUdG Doctoral Scholarship. Universitat de Girona & Banco Santander.

Presentations in Conferences/Workshops

  • 2024: LSE-CEP Education Work in Progress Seminar, London School of Economics. London, United Kingdom. Barcelona School of Economics Summer Forum, Barcelona School of Economics. Barcelona, Spain. International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education. Magna Graecia University & University of Lancaster. Catanzaro, Italy. Equalitas Workshop, Universitat de Girona. Girona, Spain
  • 2023: Meta-Analysis in Economics Research Network Colloquium, Universitat de les Illes Balears. Mallorca, Spain.
  • 2020: Social Mobility and Intergenerational Transmission of Opportunities in Rich Countries, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. Madrid, Spain.

Research courses

  • 2023: Frontiers in DID with Brantly Callaway (Mixtape sessions)
  • 2023: Empirical Bayes and Large-scale Inference with Christopher Walters (Mixtape sessions)
  • 2022: Advanced Difference-in-Differences with Jonathan Roth (Mixtape sessions)
  • 2022: Difference-in-Differences with Panel Data with Jeff Wooldridge (Economists for Ukraine)
  • 2022: Machine Learning and Causal Inference with Brigham Frandsen (Mixtape sessions)
  • 2021: Differences in Differences with Pedro H. C. Sant’Anna (Statistical Horizons)
  • 2021: Matching and Weighting for Causal Inference in R with Stephen Vaisey (Statistical Horizons)

Computer skills

  • Programming languages: Stata, R, LaTeX, Markdown. Python: basic knowledge.