Published Papers

Are Women Pawns in the Political Game? Evidence from Elections to the Spanish Senate (joint with Berta Esteve-Volart)
Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 96, pp. 387-399, 2012 (pdf)

Do Recruiters Prefer Applicants with Similar Skills? Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment (joint with María José Pérez Villadóniga)
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 82, pp. 12-20, 2012 (pdf)

Can Gender Parity Break the Glass Ceiling? Evidence from a Repeated Randomized Experiment (joint with Berta Esteve-Volart)
Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 77(4), pp. 1301-1328, 2010 (pdf)
Supplementary material: Stata files

Do On-Line Labor Market Intermediaries Matter? The impact of AlmaLaurea on University-to-Work transition (joint with Mauro Sylos Labini)
David H. Autor (ed), NBER volume Studies of Labor Market Intermediation, pp. 127-154. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009 (pdf)

Differential Grading Standards and University Funding: Evidence from Italy (joint with Mauro Sylos Labini and Natalia Zinovyeva)
CESifo Economic Studies, Vol. 54 (2), pp. 149-176, 2008 (pdf)
A translation of this article into Russian appeared at Вопросы образования№4 за 2009 год

Recent Working Papers

Does Gender Matter for Academic Promotion? Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment (joint with Natalia Zinovyeva)
FEDEA Working Paper #2010/15, IZA Discussion Paper #5537
Latest version: June 2011 (pdf)

Politicians’ Luck of the Draw: Evidence from the Spanish Christmas Lottery (joint with Berta Esteve-Volart)
FEDEA Working Paper #2011/01. Latest version: January 2011 (pdf)
Revise and resubmit, Journal of Political Economy

Why Do I Like People Like Me? (joint with María José Pérez Villadóniga)
Universidad Carlos III Working Paper #2008/06. Latest version: October 2010 (pdf)
Revise and resubmit, Journal of Economic Theory

Work in Progress

Performance Pay and Judicial Production: Evidence from Spain (joint with Berta Esteve-Volart)
This version: July 2010 (pdf)

The Effect of Ballot Order: Evidence from the Spanish Senate (joint with Berta Esteve-Volart)
This version: November 2011 (pdf)

It is Not What You Know, but Who You Know? The Role of Connections in Academic Promotions (joint with Natalia Zinovyeva)
This version: January 2012 (pdf)

Top Civil Service: Meritocracy or Nepotism? (joint with Berta Esteve-Volart)

Gender and Overconfidence in Selection Processes: Evidence from Public Examinations(joint with Berta Esteve-Volart)