Research

Publications and accepted papers


Disclosing Decision Makers Private Interests  🎵

European Economic Review,  November 2022

Preprint version, Media coverage: Nadaesgratis.


Intergroup Contact and Nation Building: Evidence from the Military Service in Spain  (joint with Julio Cáceres, Gabriel Facchini and Ignacio González)  🎵

Journal of  Public Economics,  September 2021  

Prepint version and online appendix. Media coverage: Eldiario.es, Nadaesgratis, 5 cèntims.


Stories beat experts: A survey experiment on political persuasiveness  (joint with Berta Barbet and Guillem Vidal)

European Journal of Political Research ,  Forthcoming


The Crown: A Survey About the Spanish Monarchy (joint with Enrique Hernández and Marga Torre)  🎵

Political Research Exchange, June 2021 

Media coverage: Reuters, France 24, Huffington Post Italia, Agencia EFE, Süddeutsche Zeitung, El Periódico, La Vanguardia,  Huffington Post España, Eldiario.es,  El Nacional.cat,  The Independent, CGTN,  Vanity Fair, La Razón, RNE, RAC 1, Radio Euskadi, Cadena Ser, TV3, ETB. 


Book Chapters


Building Nations through internal mobility: Evidence from Spanish conscripts (joint with Julio Cáceres, Gabriel Facchini and Ignacio González)

in Nation-Building: Big Lessons from Successes and Failures. CEPR/VOXEU E-book, edited by D.Rohner and E.Zhuravskaya


Working papers

Checks and Balances and Nation Building: The Spanish Constitutional Court and Catalonia (appendix)   (joint with Agustín Casas and Federico Curci) 


Fact-Checking, Media Competition and Political Accountability (joint with Giovanni Andreottola) 


When consensus hurts: experts' advice and electoral support 



Geographical Mobility as a Bridge to Opportunity: Evidence from the Spanish Military Service (joint with Julio Cáceres, Gabriel Facchini and Ignacio González)


Work in progress