About me
I am a PhD student and research fellow at the Department of Economics at the Universitat de Girona working under the supervision of Sara Ayllón. I am also a member of the research group Economics of Inequality and Poverty Analysis (EQUALITAS). In January 2025, I will join the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex as a visiting PhD student.
My research interests include poverty, inequality, applied microeconomics, public policy evaluation, labour economics, and public economics. As part of my doctoral thesis, I am currently examining the impact of school meals on children’s outcomes within the framework of the SCHOOL_MEALS project (further details are available on the project webpage). Additionally, I am investigating how free school meals influence parental labour market outcomes.
Work in progress
The causal impact of school-meal programmes in developed economies: A meta-analysis (with Sara Ayllón).
Subsidised school meals and children educational achievement and well-being: the case of Barcelona (with Sara Ayllón).
The impact of free school meals on parental employment: the case of England.
Teleworking and childcare across Europe: Is there a childcare digital divide? (with Sara Ayllón, Pablo Brugarolas and Enza Simeone).
Contact information
samuel.lado@udg.edu
Department of Economics, Universitat de Girona
C/Universitat de Girona, 10
17003 Girona, Spain