Research interests

Economic development in the very long run including agrarian history, economic inequality, market integration, environmental history and past climate changes, loss of human capital in military conflicts, sports economics.

Current research projects

The origins of regional inequality in Spain, 1840-2015
Principal Investigator: Carlos Santiago-Caballero.
Funded by Fundación Ramón Areces. 2015-2017.

EINITE – Economic Inequality Across Italy and Europe, 1300-1800 .
Principal Investigator: Guido Alfani.
Funded by the European Commission - 7th FWP (Seventh Framework Programme). 2012-2017.

Welfare and inequality in a preindustrial economy: Spain, 1500-1800.
Principal Investigator: Leandro Prados de la Escosura.
Funded by el Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. 2012-2015.

A comparative analysis of the origins of regional inequality in the long run: institutions, markets and policies. 
Principal Investigator: Joan R. Rosés.
Funded by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. 2012-2015.

Historical experiences in the formation of monetary areas. 
Principal Investigator: Markus Lampe.
Funded by Fundación Ramón Areces. 2011-2013.

Teaching

History of the World Economy (undergraduate)

Historical Analysis of Economic Change (MSc)

Advanced Research Methods (MSc).

Working Papers

Spanish Agriculture in the Little Divergence (with Carlos Alvarez-Nogal and Leandro Prados de la Escosura)

Agriculture in Europe’s Little Divergence: The Case of Spain (with Carlos Alvarez-Nogal and Leandro Prados de la Escosura)

Explaining wheat yields in eighteenth-century Spain

Provincial grain yields in Spain, 1750-2009

Amartya Sen revisited: trade, inequality and growth in central Spain, 1700-1800

Tithe series and grain production in modern Spain: Guadalajara 1700-1800

Income inequality in central Spain, 1690-1800

Selected Publications

Articles in Journals

• (2016) (with Carlos Álvarez-Nogal and Leandro Prados de la Escosura) “Spanish agriculture in the little divergence."

• (2014) “Tithe series and grain production in central Spain (1700-1800)”, Rural History. Volume 25, Issue 01, april, pp 15-37.

• (2013) "Trapped by nature: provincial grain yields in Spain in the mid eighteenth century". Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History (New Series) / Volume 31 / Issue 03 / december, pp 359 - 386.

• (2013) “The Rain in Spain? Climate versus Urban Demand as Causes of Agricultural Stagnation in Eighteenth Century Spain." European Review of Economic History, 17: 452-470

• (2011) "Income inequality in central Spain, 1690-1800", Explorations in Economic History. Volume 48, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 83-96.

Chapters in Books

• (2013) "Inequality and agrarian per capita income in central Spain: Guadalajara 1690-1800" in Svensson, P. and Hillbom, E. (Eds.) Agricultural Transformation in a Global History Perspective, Routledge, London, pp.160-183.