Almudena Sevilla
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 213615 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Almudena Sevilla |
| PRENOMES | Almudena |
| SOBRENOME | Sevilla |
| ASSINATURA | SEVILLA A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0075-3291 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Causal Effect of an Income Shock on Children’s Human Capital
We investigate the causal impact of a generous unconditional cash transfer at birth on children’s health and academic performance. Using rich administrative data, we take advantage of the unexpected introduction of a baby bonus in Spain in 2007 and implement a difference-in-discontinuity approach comparing children born in the surrounding months in different years. We find little impact on children’s health and test scores. We also fail to find m…
Supplemental nutrition assistance program and parents’ time investments in children
An emerging literature explores whether social policy programs have benefits to families and their children, above and beyond economic and human capital outcomes. We investigate whether the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), an anti-poverty program, is associated with the time that parents invest in their children. We assess the association between SNAP and parental time investments by leveraging the temporary expansion of SNAP ben…
The impact of incentivizing training on students’ outcomes
This paper studies the effect on students’ scores of incentivizing in-service teacher training in a system that conditions teacher promotions to in-service training take-up. In Ecuador, teachers need to pass a compulsory knowledge test with a minimum score and undergo substantial training to qualify for a promotion. We use a regression discontinuity design to identify the causal effect of incentivizing in-service teacher training on students’ sco…
Parental time investments and instantaneous well‐being in the United States
This study investigates the relationship between maternal education, child‐care time, and well‐being in the United States, with a particular focus on the role of societal norms. Highly educated mothers spend more time on childcare compared to their less educated counterparts. Drawing on data from the American Time Use Survey's Well‐Being Modules (2012, 2013, 2021), this research provides a comprehensive examination of maternal activities and well…
Schooling and Parental Labor Supply
This article examines changes in parental labor supply in response to the unanticipated closure of schools following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The authors collect detailed daily information on school closures at the school-district level, which they merge to individual-level data on labor supply and sociodemographic characteristics from the monthly Current Population Survey spanning from January 2019 through May 202…
Early adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions and Covid-19 mortality
To contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries around the globe have adopted social distancing measures. Yet, establishing the causal effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) is difficult because they do not occur arbitrarily. We exploit a quasi-random source of variation for identification purposes -namely, regional differences in the placement on the pandemic curve following an unexpected and nationwide lockdown. Our re…
Inequalities in Children's Experiences of Home Learning during the Covid‐19 Lockdown in England
This paper combines novel data on the time use, home‐learning practices and economic circumstances of families with children during the COVID‐19 lockdown with pre‐lockdown data from the UK Time Use Survey to characterise the time use of children and how it changed during lockdown, and to gauge the extent to which changes in time use and learning practices during this period are likely to reinforce the already large gaps in educational attainment …
Baby steps
The nature and scale of the shocks to the demand for, and the supply of, home childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic provide a unique opportunity to increase our understanding of the division of home labour and the determinants of specialization within the household. We collected real-time data on daily lives to document the impact of measures to control COVID-19 on UK families with children under the age of 12. We document that these families ha…
The “Controversial Cundurango Cure”
Argument This article examines the medical and political discussions regarding a controversial medicinal bark from Ecuador – cundurango – that was actively sponsored by the Ecuadorian government as a new botanical cure for cancer in the late nineteenth century United States and elsewhere. The article focuses on the commercial and diplomatic interests behind the public discussion and advertising techniques of this drug. It argues that diverse elem…
Design, time and empire
The development of Charles Darwins idea of natural selection is analyzed in this article using Thomas Kuhns concept of a paradigm shift. Kuhns insights point to the crucial question of what brings about scientific development. Science is understood as a social activity and scientific theories are interpreted as intellectual constructions somehow imposed on data, not demanded by it. In this sense, all the evidence assembled by Darwin in his On the…
El misterio de los misterios. Las islas Galápagos en Ecuador y la obra “El Origen de las Especies”
Charles Darwin menciona las islas Galápagos en dos secciones de su libro El Origen de las Especies. En comparación con otras fuentes de información, los datos recopilados en este archipiélago no son los protagonistas de su gran obra. Este hecho contrasta con la historiografía contemporánea y la cultura popular que otorgan un papel central a estas islas en su pensamiento. Cómo y cuándo Darwin resolvió el “Gran misterio de los misterios” y, en part…
The Math Gender Gap
This paper investigates the effect of gender-related culture on the math gender gap by analysing math test scores of second-generation immigrants, who are all exposed to a common set of host country laws and institutions. We find that immigrant girls whose parents come from more gender-equal countries perform better (relative to similar boys) than immigrant girls whose parents come from less gender-equal countries, suggesting an important role of…
Gender, Time-Use, and Fertility Recovery in Industrialized Countries
New Evidence on Breastfeeding and Postpartum Depression
This study aimed to identify the causal effect of breastfeeding on postpartum depression (PPD), using data on mothers from a British survey, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. Multivariate linear and logistic regressions were performed to investigate the effects of breastfeeding on mothers' mental health measured at 8 weeks, 8, 21 and 32 months postpartum. The estimated effect of breastfeeding on PPD differed according to whethe…
Do House Prices Affect Consumption? A Re‐assessment of the Wealth Hypothesis
This paper revives the debate in the literature about the relationship between house prices and consumption by exploring conflicting results in the UK. Campbell and Cocco ( ) find that old owners benefit most from a house price increase and young renters least, confirming the so‐called wealth hypothesis. In contrast, Attanasio et al . ( ) find that house prices have the same impact on consumption across age groups. We rule out several potential e…
Inserción y participación en las redes globales de producción de conocimiento
En el Repositorio Institucional Séneca están depositados materiales en formato digital fruto de la producción científica o académica, de esta manera permite almacenar, difundir y preservar información de vital importancia
Does Culture Affect Divorce? Evidence From European Immigrants in the United States
This article explores the role of culture in determining divorce by examining country-of-origin differences in divorce rates of immigrants in the United States. Because childhood-arriving immigrants are all exposed to a common set of U.S. laws and institutions, we interpret relationships between their divorce tendencies and home-country divorce rates as evidence of the effect of culture. Our results are robust to controlling for several home-coun…
Time to Cook
Journal Article Time to Cook: Expenditure at Retirement in Spain Get access María José Luengo‐Prado, María José Luengo‐Prado Maria Jose Luengo‐Prado, Northeastern University, Department of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Almudena Sevilla Almudena Sevilla Northeastern University Queen Mary University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Jo…
Sharing of Resources Within the Family and the Economics of Household Decision Making
Over the last 3 decades, economic models have been developed that recognize that potentially conflicting interests may shape household decisions and the sharing of resources within families. This article provides an overview of how decision making within households has been modeled within economics, presents the main benefits and limitations of those models, and critically assesses their usefulness to researchers from other disciplines interested…
Calibrating Time-Use Estimates for the British Household Panel Survey
Trends in time allocation
Leisure Inequality in the United States
This article exploits the complex sequential structure of the diary data in the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure (pure leisure, co-present leisure, and leisure fragmentation) to show that the relative growth in leisure time enjoyed by low-educated individuals documented in previous studies has been accompanied by a relative decrease in the quality of that leisu…
Career and Family
Sharing of Resources Within the Family and the Economics of Household Decision Making
Over the last 3 decades, economic models have been developed that recognize that potentially conflicting interests may shape household decisions and the sharing of resources within families. This article provides an overview of how decision making within households has been modeled within economics, presents the main benefits and limitations of those models, and critically assesses their usefulness to researchers from other disciplines interested…
Leisure Inequality in the United States
This article exploits the complex sequential structure of the diary data in the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure (pure leisure, co-present leisure, and leisure fragmentation) to show that the relative growth in leisure time enjoyed by low-educated individuals documented in previous studies has been accompanied by a relative decrease in the quality of that leisu…
Does Culture Affect Divorce? Evidence From European Immigrants in the United States
This article explores the role of culture in determining divorce by examining country-of-origin differences in divorce rates of immigrants in the United States. Because childhood-arriving immigrants are all exposed to a common set of U.S. laws and institutions, we interpret relationships between their divorce tendencies and home-country divorce rates as evidence of the effect of culture. Our results are robust to controlling for several home-coun…
Time to Cook
Journal Article Time to Cook: Expenditure at Retirement in Spain Get access María José Luengo‐Prado, María José Luengo‐Prado Maria Jose Luengo‐Prado, Northeastern University, Department of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Almudena Sevilla Almudena Sevilla Northeastern University Queen Mary University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Jo…
Do House Prices Affect Consumption? A Re‐assessment of the Wealth Hypothesis
This paper revives the debate in the literature about the relationship between house prices and consumption by exploring conflicting results in the UK. Campbell and Cocco ( ) find that old owners benefit most from a house price increase and young renters least, confirming the so‐called wealth hypothesis. In contrast, Attanasio et al . ( ) find that house prices have the same impact on consumption across age groups. We rule out several potential e…
Calibrating Time-Use Estimates for the British Household Panel Survey
Schooling and Parental Labor Supply
This article examines changes in parental labor supply in response to the unanticipated closure of schools following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The authors collect detailed daily information on school closures at the school-district level, which they merge to individual-level data on labor supply and sociodemographic characteristics from the monthly Current Population Survey spanning from January 2019 through May 202…
Trends in time allocation
Leisure Inequality in the United States
This article exploits the complex sequential structure of the diary data in the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure (pure leisure, co-present leisure, and leisure fragmentation) to show that the relative growth in leisure time enjoyed by low-educated individuals documented in previous studies has been accompanied by a relative decrease in the quality of that leisu…
Inserción y participación en las redes globales de producción de conocimiento
En el Repositorio Institucional Séneca están depositados materiales en formato digital fruto de la producción científica o académica, de esta manera permite almacenar, difundir y preservar información de vital importancia
Does Culture Affect Divorce? Evidence From European Immigrants in the United States
This article explores the role of culture in determining divorce by examining country-of-origin differences in divorce rates of immigrants in the United States. Because childhood-arriving immigrants are all exposed to a common set of U.S. laws and institutions, we interpret relationships between their divorce tendencies and home-country divorce rates as evidence of the effect of culture. Our results are robust to controlling for several home-coun…
Time to Cook
Journal Article Time to Cook: Expenditure at Retirement in Spain Get access María José Luengo‐Prado, María José Luengo‐Prado Maria Jose Luengo‐Prado, Northeastern University, Department of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Almudena Sevilla Almudena Sevilla Northeastern University Queen Mary University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Jo…
Sharing of Resources Within the Family and the Economics of Household Decision Making
Over the last 3 decades, economic models have been developed that recognize that potentially conflicting interests may shape household decisions and the sharing of resources within families. This article provides an overview of how decision making within households has been modeled within economics, presents the main benefits and limitations of those models, and critically assesses their usefulness to researchers from other disciplines interested…
Calibrating Time-Use Estimates for the British Household Panel Survey
New Evidence on Breastfeeding and Postpartum Depression
This study aimed to identify the causal effect of breastfeeding on postpartum depression (PPD), using data on mothers from a British survey, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. Multivariate linear and logistic regressions were performed to investigate the effects of breastfeeding on mothers' mental health measured at 8 weeks, 8, 21 and 32 months postpartum. The estimated effect of breastfeeding on PPD differed according to whethe…
Do House Prices Affect Consumption? A Re‐assessment of the Wealth Hypothesis
This paper revives the debate in the literature about the relationship between house prices and consumption by exploring conflicting results in the UK. Campbell and Cocco ( ) find that old owners benefit most from a house price increase and young renters least, confirming the so‐called wealth hypothesis. In contrast, Attanasio et al . ( ) find that house prices have the same impact on consumption across age groups. We rule out several potential e…
Gender, Time-Use, and Fertility Recovery in Industrialized Countries
The Math Gender Gap
This paper investigates the effect of gender-related culture on the math gender gap by analysing math test scores of second-generation immigrants, who are all exposed to a common set of host country laws and institutions. We find that immigrant girls whose parents come from more gender-equal countries perform better (relative to similar boys) than immigrant girls whose parents come from less gender-equal countries, suggesting an important role of…
El misterio de los misterios. Las islas Galápagos en Ecuador y la obra “El Origen de las Especies”
Charles Darwin menciona las islas Galápagos en dos secciones de su libro El Origen de las Especies. En comparación con otras fuentes de información, los datos recopilados en este archipiélago no son los protagonistas de su gran obra. Este hecho contrasta con la historiografía contemporánea y la cultura popular que otorgan un papel central a estas islas en su pensamiento. Cómo y cuándo Darwin resolvió el “Gran misterio de los misterios” y, en part…
Design, time and empire
The development of Charles Darwins idea of natural selection is analyzed in this article using Thomas Kuhns concept of a paradigm shift. Kuhns insights point to the crucial question of what brings about scientific development. Science is understood as a social activity and scientific theories are interpreted as intellectual constructions somehow imposed on data, not demanded by it. In this sense, all the evidence assembled by Darwin in his On the…
Inequalities in Children's Experiences of Home Learning during the Covid‐19 Lockdown in England
This paper combines novel data on the time use, home‐learning practices and economic circumstances of families with children during the COVID‐19 lockdown with pre‐lockdown data from the UK Time Use Survey to characterise the time use of children and how it changed during lockdown, and to gauge the extent to which changes in time use and learning practices during this period are likely to reinforce the already large gaps in educational attainment …
Baby steps
The nature and scale of the shocks to the demand for, and the supply of, home childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic provide a unique opportunity to increase our understanding of the division of home labour and the determinants of specialization within the household. We collected real-time data on daily lives to document the impact of measures to control COVID-19 on UK families with children under the age of 12. We document that these families ha…
The “Controversial Cundurango Cure”
Argument This article examines the medical and political discussions regarding a controversial medicinal bark from Ecuador – cundurango – that was actively sponsored by the Ecuadorian government as a new botanical cure for cancer in the late nineteenth century United States and elsewhere. The article focuses on the commercial and diplomatic interests behind the public discussion and advertising techniques of this drug. It argues that diverse elem…
Early adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions and Covid-19 mortality
To contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries around the globe have adopted social distancing measures. Yet, establishing the causal effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) is difficult because they do not occur arbitrarily. We exploit a quasi-random source of variation for identification purposes -namely, regional differences in the placement on the pandemic curve following an unexpected and nationwide lockdown. Our re…
Schooling and Parental Labor Supply
This article examines changes in parental labor supply in response to the unanticipated closure of schools following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The authors collect detailed daily information on school closures at the school-district level, which they merge to individual-level data on labor supply and sociodemographic characteristics from the monthly Current Population Survey spanning from January 2019 through May 202…
The impact of incentivizing training on students’ outcomes
This paper studies the effect on students’ scores of incentivizing in-service teacher training in a system that conditions teacher promotions to in-service training take-up. In Ecuador, teachers need to pass a compulsory knowledge test with a minimum score and undergo substantial training to qualify for a promotion. We use a regression discontinuity design to identify the causal effect of incentivizing in-service teacher training on students’ sco…
Career and Family
Parental time investments and instantaneous well‐being in the United States
This study investigates the relationship between maternal education, child‐care time, and well‐being in the United States, with a particular focus on the role of societal norms. Highly educated mothers spend more time on childcare compared to their less educated counterparts. Drawing on data from the American Time Use Survey's Well‐Being Modules (2012, 2013, 2021), this research provides a comprehensive examination of maternal activities and well…
Supplemental nutrition assistance program and parents’ time investments in children
An emerging literature explores whether social policy programs have benefits to families and their children, above and beyond economic and human capital outcomes. We investigate whether the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), an anti-poverty program, is associated with the time that parents invest in their children. We assess the association between SNAP and parental time investments by leveraging the temporary expansion of SNAP ben…
The Causal Effect of an Income Shock on Children’s Human Capital
We investigate the causal impact of a generous unconditional cash transfer at birth on children’s health and academic performance. Using rich administrative data, we take advantage of the unexpected introduction of a baby bonus in Spain in 2007 and implement a difference-in-discontinuity approach comparing children born in the surrounding months in different years. We find little impact on children’s health and test scores. We also fail to find m…
Economics (16 obras) · Demographic economics (10 obras) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (9 obras) · Medicine (9 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Demography (5 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras) · Demography (4 obras)