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Departament d’Economia i d’Història Econòmica
Office B3-194, Building B, Campus Bellaterra
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Bellaterra 08193, Barcelona, Spain
E-Mail: anna dot sanzdegaldeano at gmail dot com
Phone: 00-34-935814626
Fax: 00-34-935812012
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Last Updated: February 2012
Current employment
Assistant Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Affiliations
Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professor, IZA Research Fellow, MOVE Research Fellow
Education
Ph.D. European University Institute, June 2003
Thesis title: “Essays on Labour Economics, Health
Economics and Gender”
B.A. Universidad de Valencia, June 1998
Fields of interest
Health, Labour and Development Economics, Program Evaluation
Publications
Journal articles
“Smoking Persistence Across Countries: a Panel Data Analysis”, with Dimitris Christelis, Journal of Health Economics, 30: 1077-1093, 2011.
“Smoking Habits: Like Father, Like Son, Like Mother, Like Daughter?”, with María Loureiro and Daniela Vuri, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 72(6): 717-746, 2010. Paper ranked among IZA Top 10 Downloads.
“The Rise of Obesity in Europe: an Economic Perspective”, with Giorgio Brunello and Pierre-Carl Michaud, Economic Policy, 57: 553-96, 2009.
“Moral Hazard and the Demand for Health Services: a Matching Estimator Approach”, with Pedro Pita Barros and Matilde P. Machado, Journal of Health Economics, 27: 1006-1025, 2008.
“Parental Divorce and Students’ Performance: Evidence from Longitudinal Data”, with Daniela Vuri, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 69(3): 321-338, 2007.
“The Euro Area Wage Curve”, with Jarkko Turunen, Economics Letters, 92: 93-98, 2006.
“Job-Lock and Public Policy: Evidence from Clinton’s Second Mandate”, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 59(3): 430-437, 2006.
Publications in books
“Universitats i Estudis a Catalunya: una Anàlisi Comparativa”, with Julián Messina and Elena del Rey, in A. Serra Ramoneda (Ed.), Educació Superior i Treball a Catalunya. Estudi de la Inserció Laboral dels Graduats de les Universitats Públiques Catalanes, pp. 299-328. AQU, 2007 (in Catalan).
“Comments on ‘The Effect of Home-Ownership on Labor Mobility in The Netherlands’, by Michael van Leuvensteijn and Pierre Koning”, in J. Messina, C. Michelacci, J. Turunen and G. Zoega (Eds.), Labour Market Adjustment in Europe, Edward Elgar Press, 2006.
“L’Effetto del Divorzio sulle Performance Scolastiche dei Figli”, with Daniela Vuri, in G. Brunello, D. Checchi, C. Lucifora and A. Ichino (Brucchi Luchino, Eds.), Per un’analisi Critica del Mercato del Lavoro, Mulino, Laterza, 2005 (in Italian).
“Reconciling Motherhood and Work: Evidence from Time Use Data in Three Countries”, with Andrea Ichino, in D. S. Hamermesh and G. Pfann (Eds.), The Economics of Time Use, pp. 263-288, Amsterdam, Elsevier, 2004.
Popular writing (non-technical)
“El efecto del divorcio de los padres sobre el desarrollo cognitivo de los hijos”, with Daniela Vuri. Article appeared in Sociedad Abierta, 2007 (in Spanish).
“The Rise of Obesity in Europe: an Economic Perspective”, with Giorgio Brunello and Pierre-Carl Michaud. Article appeared in Voxeu, 2009.
Completed papers
“Coverage of Infertility Treatment and Fertility Outcomes: Do Women Catch Up?”, with Matilde P. Machado. CEPR Discussion Paper No. 8445 and IZA Discussion Paper No. 5783. Submitted.
“Wage Rigidity and Disinflation in Emerging Countries”, with Julián Messina. IZA Discussion Paper No. 5778 and World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5863. Revised and resubmitted.
Work in progress
“Wage Indexation and the Minimum Wage in a Middle Income Country: Evidence from Brazil”, with Julián Messina. Under revision.
“Medicare and Portfolio Choice”, with Dimitris Christelis and Dimitris Georgarakos. Under revision.
“Real Wages and the Business Cycle in Formal and Informal Sectors”, with Julián Messina. In progress.
Professional experience
Academic positions and research visits
Jan. – Feb. 2012 Visiting Researcher, LUISS Guido carli University, Rome
Nov. – Dec. 2011 Visiting Researcher, World Bank
Oct. 2010 Visiting Researcher, World Bank
Jan. 2009 – Feb. 2009 Visiting Researcher, Georgetown University and World Bank
2005-2009 Assistant Professor, Universitat de Girona
Sept. 2008 – Oct. 2008 Visiting Researcher, RAND Corporation (Santa Monica)
Oct. 2007 – Feb. 2008 Visiting Researcher, FEDEA (Madrid)
2004-2005 CSEF Research Fellow, Università degli Studi di Salerno
2003-2004 Economist, DG-Research, EAM, European Central Bank
2002-2003 Visiting Assistant Professor, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
2002 Summer Internship, Asian Development Bank
2001-2002 Assistant for Prof. Andrea Ichino, EUI
2001 Visiting Researcher, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex
Teaching experience
Undergraduate
Instructor: Macroeconomic Principles, Macroeconomics (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2002-2003); Public Evonomics, Social Policies and the Welfare State (Universitat de Girona, 2005-2006); Applied Economics (Universitat de Girona, 2005-2009); Econometrics II (UAB, 2009-2011)
Graduate
Instructor: Linear Algebra, Economics Ph.D. Program (Università degli Studi di Salerno, 2004-2005), Econometrics, IDEA Ph.D. Program (UAB, 2012).
PhD dissertation reader
Federico Todeschini (UPF, 2010), Maria Teresa Blázquez (UC3M, 2003)
Master thesis dissertation reader
Laura Cozma, Ezgi Kaya, Fakhraldin Zaveh and Zhang Xiang (IDEA-UAB, 2010)
Undergraduate thesis supervision
Daniel Ruiz (UAB, 2011)
Conferences and seminars
IZA Conferences of the International Research Consortium in the Economics of Time Use (2002 and 2003), Royal Economic Society (2003), RTN Meeting on “The Economics of Ageing” (2003), Institute for Advanced Studies Econometrics Workshop (2003), CEMFI Policy Evaluation Workshop (2003), ASSET Annual Conference (2004 and 2007), European Health Economics Workshop (2005), Simposio de Análisis Económico (2006, 2007, 2009 and 2011), University of Reading (2006), Seminar of Social Studies on Health and Medicine, UC3M (2006), FEDEA (2007), II Workshop de la Cátedra Fedea-LaCaixa de Economía de la Salud y Hábitos de Vida (2008), CEPR- Economic Policy Forty-Eighth Panel Meeting (2008), UAB (2008), RAND (2008), OECD (2008), ESPE Annual Conference (2009), LACEA and LAMES Annual Conference (2002 and 2009), Barcelona GSE Trobada (2009), University of Alicante (2009), Health Econometrics Workshop (2010), Society for Computational Economics Annual Conference (2011). LUISS Guido Carli University (2012).
Awards, grants and fellowships
2010 ANECA, Acreditación Profesor Titular de Universidad
2008 AQU, Acreditació Professor Agregat
2007 Research grant SEJ2007-62500 (PI: Julián Messina), Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología
2004 Research grant SEJ2004-03276 (PI: Dolors Berga), Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología
2004-2005 Post-Doctoral Marie Curie Fellowship, CSEF, University of Salerno
2003 Research grant SEC2003-08714 (PI: Alfonso Alba), Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología
Jan.-March 2001 Pre-Doctoral Marie Curie Fellowship at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex
Sept. 2000-June 2002 Doctoral Fellowship, European University Institute
Sept. 1998-Aug. 2000 Doctoral Fellowship, Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1998 Award to the Best Academic Record in Economics 1994-1998, Universidad de Valencia
Other professional activities
Departamental service at UAB
UFAE Visitors Program Coordinator (since Fall 2010)
Referee service
Journal of the European Economic Association, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Labour Economics, Economics of Education Review, Empirical Economics, Health Economics, European Journal of Health Economics, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Population Economics, International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, Labour, Economics and Human Biology, Spanish Economic Review, Investigaciones Económicas, Revista de Economía Aplicada, Portuguese Economic Journal, ANEP project evaluator (Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología)
Conference organization
Co-organizer (with Julián Messina) of the III Workshop in Public Policy Design, Institutions and Labor Markets, Universitat de Girona
Languages
Spanish (native), Catalan, English and Italian (fluent)