About me

I am an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya and a member of the research group Economics of Inequality and Poverty Analysis (EQUALITAS). I obtained my PhD at the Universitat de Girona in September 2025.

My research interests include poverty, inequality, applied microeconomics, public policy evaluation, labour economics and public economics. In my PhD thesis, I evaluated the impact of school-meal programmes on children’s behaviour, health, and educational attainment, as well as on parental labour market outcomes. In doing so, I employed a wide range of quantitative methods, including meta-analytical techniques and causal inference methods. I completed a research visit to the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex and the Department of Economics, Social Studies, Applied Mathematics and Statistics (ESOMAS) at the University of Torino.

Contact information

slado@uic.es

Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

Carrer de la Immaculada, 22

08017 Barcelona