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General Information

Full Name Pablo Brugarolas
Date of Birth 25 March 1996
Email pablo.brugarolas@udg.edu
Address Department of Economics, Universitat de Girona, C/ Universitat de Girona, 10, 17003 Girona (Spain)
Profiles @pablobrugarolas
Languages English (fluent), Spanish (native)

Academic Positions

  • 2025–
    Research Fellow
    Department of Economics, Universitat de Girona. Girona, Spain
  • 2025
    Visiting Research Student
    Department of Economics, Universidad de La Laguna. San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain
  • 2024
    Visiting Research Student
    Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics. London, United Kingdom
  • 2021–2022
    Research Assistant
    Department 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 (IPP), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Madrid, Spain
  • 2017–2018
    Internship
    Institute of Public Policies and Goods (IPP), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Madrid, Spain

Education

  • 2022–2025
    PhD in Economics
    Universitat de Girona. Girona, Spain
    • Thesis: Essays in Applied Economics (Honours). Supervisor: Sara Ayllón Gatnau.
  • 2020–2021
    M.Sc. in Labor Economics
    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain
    • 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
    • Thesis: The effectiveness of the Active Insertion Income program: evidence from the Region of Murcia (Honours).

Affiliations

  • 2024–
    Women in Social and Public Policy Research Hub
    London School of Economics
  • 2022–
    EQUALITAS – Economics of Inequality and Poverty Analysis
    Universitat de Girona

Research Interests

  • Family economics; economics of human development; education economics; poverty and inequality; causal-inference methods.

Publications

  • Peer-reviewed journals
    • Ayllón, S.; Brugarolas, P.; Lado, S. (2024). New estimates for inequality of opportunity in Europe using elastic net algorithms, Applied Economics Letters, 1–5.
    • Brugarolas, P.; Miller, L. (2021). The causal effect of polls on turnout intention: a local randomization regression discontinuity approach, Political Analysis, 29(4), 554–560.
  • Chapters in edited volumes
    • 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, eds. Holmarsdottir, Seland, Hyggen, Roth. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 239–279 (Ch. 9).
  • Other publications and invited contributions
    • Ayllón, S.; Brugarolas, P.; Lado, S. (2023). La transmisión intergeneracional de la pobreza y la desigualdad de oportunidades en España. Ministerio de Derechos Sociales y Agenda 2030. [Spanish]
    • Brugarolas, P.; Gorjón, L.; Lizarraga, I.; Vega-Bayo, A. (2021). Youth Employment PartnerSHIP. Report on outreach performance and YGS implementation: Results and efficiency in Spain. ISEAK Report 2021/4.
    • Brugarolas, P.; Gorjón, L.; de la Rica, S. (2020). El uso de datos administrativos para la investigación. ISEAK Report 2020/3. [Spanish]
    • Brugarolas, P.; Gorjón, L.; de la Rica, S.; Romero, G. (2020). La renta ciudadana y los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible en Canarias. [Spanish]
    • Brugarolas, P.; Gorjón, L.; de la Rica, S.; Romero, G. (2020). Estudio sobre el impacto de rentas mínimas en la pobreza en Canarias. [Spanish]
  • Working papers
    • Brugarolas, P. (2025). Revisiting the causal benefits of universal childcare: The roles of publication and attenuation bias. Submitted.
    • Brugarolas, P. (2025). Childcare provision and mother’s labor supply: The role of publication bias and weak causal design. Submitted.
    • Ayllón, S.; Brugarolas, P. (2025). When early gains fade: The limits of dynamic complementarity under austerity.

Research Projects

  • 2023–2026
    PATHS2INCLUDE — European labour markets under pressure
    • Horizon Europe, European Commission.
  • 2023–2025
    INEQOP — Inequality and opportunities
    • Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
  • 2022–2023
    Inequality of opportunity in Spain — an estimation using Artificial Intelligence
    • Institute of Fiscal Studies (IEF).
  • 2022–2025
    Economic analysis of public policies (2021SGR570)
    • Grup de Recerca Reconegut, AGAUR.
  • 2021–2022
    The intergenerational transmission of poverty in Spain
    • Spanish Ministry of Social Rights and 2030 Agenda.
  • 2020–2022
    DigiGen — The impact of technological transformations on the digital generation
    • H2020 (DT-TRANSFORMATIONS-07-2019), European Commission.
  • 2020–2021
    Revising equality of educational opportunities by social origin
    • Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation.
  • 2020
    Design of regional supplements to the Minimum Living Income in the Canary Islands
    • Government of the Canary Islands.
  • 2020
    Youth employment partnerSHIP — evaluation studies in Spain, Hungary, Italy and Poland
    • EEA and Norway Grants.

Presentations in Conferences/Workshops

  • 2025: Research Seminar, Universidad de La Laguna; Applied Lunch Seminar, University of Barcelona.
  • 2024: Children’s Health, Well-Being, and Human Capital Formation Workshop, Barcelona GSE; MAER-Net Colloquium, University of Augsburg; 14th International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education, University of Catanzaro; CEP Work-in-Progress Seminar, LSE; Social Policy Quantitative Reading Group, LSE; X Equalitas Workshop, Universitat de Girona.
  • 2023: MAER-Net Colloquium, Universitat de les Illes Balears; Opportunity and Mobility Workshop, LSE; Spanish Ministry of Social Rights and 2030 Agenda.
  • 2022: Social Mobility and Intergenerational Transmission of Opportunities in Rich Countries, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.

Academic Awards and Scholarships

  • 2024: Mobility scholarship, Amics del País.
  • 2022: IFUdG Doctoral Scholarship, Universitat de Girona & Banco Santander.

Research Training & Short Courses

  • 2025: Shift-share IV with Peter Hull (Mixtape).
  • 2023: 2nd COORDINATE Summer School — Analysis of Data from the National Educational Panel Study (LIfBi, Bamberg).
  • 2023: Empirical Bayes and Large-scale Inference (Christopher Walters, Mixtape).
  • 2023: Frontiers in Difference-in-Differences (Brantly Callaway, Mixtape).
  • 2022: Machine Learning and Causal Inference Track (Brigham Frandsen, Mixtape).
  • 2022: Difference-in-Differences with Panel Data (Jeff Wooldridge, Economists for Ukraine).
  • 2021: Differences-in-Differences (Pedro H. C. Sant’Anna, Statistical Horizons).
  • 2021: Matching and Weighting for Causal Inference in R (Stephen Vaisey, Statistical Horizons).

Referee Service

  • Journal of Economic Surveys.

Computer Skills

  • Programming: Stata, R, LaTeX, Markdown; Python (basic).