Departament d'Economia Aplicada. Documents de treball
Els documents de treball o working papers (WP) són documents que sintetitzen una recerca original sobre un tema concret dins d’una matèria o camp d’estudi, amb el propòsit d’informar sobre l’estat de la recerca i fer una ràpida disseminació dels resultats. Aquesta col·lecció inclou els working papers publicats pel Departament de Economia Aplicada
Darreres entrades:
2026-10-06
20:27
41 p, 5.1 MB Policing Police Violence : sheriff-coroners and the underreporting of police killings / Poblete Cazenave, Ruben (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada
In the United States, law enforcement kills three people per day, yet official statistics record only half. Using detailed geo-location of police killings and exploiting spatial and temporal discontinuities in medicolegal death-investigation systems across counties from 2000–2024, I show that sheriff-coroner jurisdictions are 15–19 percentage points (≈30 percent) less likely to report killings to the FBI. [...]
2026 (Document de treball (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; 04.26)  
2026-09-16
18:16
54 p, 5.9 MB Intergenerational mobility in Uruguay using income-tax administrative data / Leites Lamela, Martin (Universidad de la República (Uruguai). Instituto de Economía) ; Ramos Morilla, Xavier (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; Rodríguez Ingold, Cecilia (Universidad de la República (Uruguai). Instituto de Economía) ; Vilá, Joan (Universidad de la República (Uruguai). Instituto de Economía) ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada
We contribute to the very incipient literature that estimates the intergenerational mobility of income from large-scale administrative data using high-quality income data and provide novel evidence of intergenerational income mobility in a middle-income country, Uruguay. [...]
2026 (Document de treball (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; 03.26)  
2026-09-16
20:12
30 p, 2.0 MB Trends in health inequalities among Spanish retirees / Bellés Obrero, Cristina Adelaida (Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica) ; Flores, Manuel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; García-Gómez, Pilar (Erasmus School of Economics (Rotterdam)) ; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) ; Vall-Castelló, Judit (Universitat de Barcelona) ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada
Spain, with one of the highest life expectancies globally and a rapidly ageing population, faces growing challenges in sustaining its pension, healthcare, and long-term care systems. This study examines trends in health inequalities among retired Spaniards from 2004 to 2022, using eight waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). [...]
2026 (Document de treball (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; 02.26)  
2026-05-05
20:12
39 p, 980.5 KB Transportation and housing markets in cities / García López, Miquel-Àngel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; Sanchis-Guarner, Rosa (Universitat de Barcelona) ; Viladecans Marsal, Elisabet (Universitat de Barcelona) ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada
This paper surveys recent literature estimating the causal effects of urban transport investments and urban mobility policies on housing markets. We synthesise evidence along three dimensions: the capitalisation of accessibility gains, the internalisation of transport-related externalities, and the rise of green mobility initiatives. [...]
2026 (Document de treball (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; 01.26)  
2026-01-15
19:10
60 p, 4.6 MB A more conservative country? Asylum seekers and voting in the UK / Romarri, Alessio Ferdinando Federico (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; Fasani, Francesco Maria (Università degli Studi di Milano) ; Ferro, Simone (Università degli Studi di Milano) ; Pasini, Elisabetta (Alma Economics) ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada
This paper provides the first causal evaluation of the political impact of asylum seekers in the UK. Although they are dispersed across areas on a no-choice basis, political bargaining between central and local governments introduces potential endogeneity in their allocation. [...]
2025 (Document de treball (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; 20.25)  
2026-01-15
19:10
50 p, 1.8 MB Diversity and polarization between natives and immigrants : the case of Barcelona / Nicolini, Rosella ; Piedra Peña, Juan Andrés (Universidad de Oviedo) ; Roig Sabaté, José Luis (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; Turati, Riccardo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada
The scope of our research is to conduct an empirical investigation into the degree of ethnic cohesion in a multiethnic city such as Barcelona (Spain). Our aim is to assess how immigrant and native groups are distributed across the city's neighborhoods and understand their locational patterns in order to identify potential polarization trends that could undermine socioeconomic cohesion among citizens. [...]
2025 (Document de treball (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; 19.25)  
2026-01-15
18:10
34 p, 321.9 KB Riders in the smog : how air pollution affects workers in urban environments / Romarri, Alessio Ferdinando Federico (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada
What are the aggregate effects of housing supply-side policies, such as zoning reforms? In structural models, the answer involves characterising the equilibrium housing price function. I show that a housing price function should separately characterise how policies affect: 1) the response of house prices to new demand ("Elasticity Effect''); 2) the cost of satisfying existing housing demand ("Baseline Effect''). [...]
2025 (Document de treball (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; 16.25)  
2026-01-15
18:10
34 p, 321.9 KB Modelling the aggregate effects of housing supply policies / Guaitoli, Gabriele (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada
What are the aggregate effects of housing supply-side policies, such as zoning reforms? In structural models, the answer involves characterising the equilibrium housing price function. I show that a housing price function should separately characterise how policies affect: 1) the response of house prices to new demand ("Elasticity Effect''); 2) the cost of satisfying existing housing demand ("Baseline Effect''). [...]
2025 (Document de treball (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; 16.25)  
2026-01-15
16:10
34 p, 1.4 MB The power of words : Central Bank green communication and performance of energy sectors / Davtyan, Karen (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; Kalozdi, Adel Reka (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada
This paper shows that granting migrants legal status reduces labor exploitation. We study Spain's 2005 large-scale regularization program, which granted legal status to 600,000 undocumented migrants. [...]
2025 (Document de treball (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; 14.25)  
2026-01-14
20:10
34 p, 1.4 MB The effect of migrant regularization on labor exploitation / Carillo, Mario Francesco (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; Amodio, Francesco (McGill University) ; Benveniste, Elia (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) ; Riudavets-Barcons, Marc (University of Helsinki) ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada
This paper shows that granting migrants legal status reduces labor exploitation. We study Spain's 2005 large-scale regularization program, which granted legal status to 600,000 undocumented migrants. [...]
2025 (Document de treball (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; 14.25)