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).

Universal free school meals and work incentives: lessons from 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