Latest Publications

2026

• Maravall, L. and Dácil Juif (2026, forthcoming). "From Mines to Minds: Education in Zambia's Mining Regions from 1920 to 1990". European Review of Economic History.

• Radl, Jonas, William Foley, Lea Kröger, Patricia Lorente, Alberto Palacios-Abad, Heike Solga, Jan Stuhler & Madeline Swarr (2026): “The Social Origins of Effort: How Incentives Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities among Children”, American Sociological Review,  91(1): 89–122. [Link to presentation].

• Requena, Miguel: El impacto de la demografía en el sistema educativo español. Proyecciones a cinco y diez años. Monografías sobre educación, Fundación Ramón Areces & European Foundation Society and Education. https://www.sociedadyeducacion.org/core/wp-content/uploads/EL-IMPACTO-DE-LA-DEMOGRAFIA-EN-EL-SISTEMA-EDUCATIVO-ESPANOL.web_.pdf

• María Rubio-Cabañez & Jonas Radl (forthcoming): “Polluting Student Test Performance: School-Based Evidence on the Adverse Effects of Air Pollution “, Social Science Research, [Link to Working Paper]

• Ferrara, Alessandro, Jan Paul Heisig, Jonas Radl and Alena Scheinert (2026): “Parental health shocks and child outcomes at ages 17-25: Evidence from Germany”, Journal of Marriage and Family, 88(1): 247-257. [LIVES Best Poster Award 2023] https://www.centre-lives.ch/en/page-de-base/lives-best-poster-award

• Moreno-Alameda, D., Blanco Iglesias, J., Díaz-Guerra Romero, A., & Sanz Gimeno, A. (2026). Personalizing the Teaching of Programming and Social Statistics Through AI: An Innovation for Social Sciences BT. In L. F. Rivera-Galicia, J.-M. Montero, C. García-Pérez, & E. Senra-Díaz (Eds.), Teaching Innovations in Economics. Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies (pp. 191–211). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-08213-8_9 

• Díaz-Guerra Romero, A., Moreno Alamenda, D., Blanco Iglesias, J., & Sanz Gimeno, A. (2026). Implementando el uso de R en las Ciencias Sociales: Experiencias de formación docente para impulsar el uso de herramientas digitales en la universidad. In E. García Mingo, H. Puente Bienvenido, & I. Sádaba Rodríguez (Eds.), Metodología de la investigación social digital. Miradas, técnicas, desafíos (pp. 99–112). Editorial Tirant Lo Blanch. 

• Seiz, M., Bueno, X. & Borisova, E. Socioeconomic and demographic differentials in unintended pregnancies, abortion, and contraceptive use in Spain: insights from the 2018 Fertility Survey. Reprod Health 23, 106 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-026-02329-6 

2025

• Robin Cavagnoud, Teresa Castro Martín (2025). Education and fertility transition in Peru: A cohort analysis of women born between 1936 and 1984. Canadian Studies in Population 52, 17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42650-025-00100-z 

• Héctor Cebolla-Boado, Álvaro Suárez-Vergne, Teresa Castro-Martín, Teresa Martín García (2025). Birth weight in a warming world: investigating the protective role of the “healthy immigrant effect” against extreme heat. Population and Environment 47, 13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11111-025-00482-x 

• Frederick, K., Juif, D., and Meier zu Selhausen, F. (2024). “The Revival of African Economic History in the 21st Century: A Bibliometric Analysis.” Revista de Historia Industrial—Industrial History Review, 33(92), 11-48.

• Belahsen R, Cherkaoui M, Mora-Urda AI, Francisco Javier Martín Almena, Montero López MP (Corresponding Author) (2025). Consequences of COVID-19 Lockdown on Food Insecurity and Food Quality in Two Mediterranean Countries (Spain and Morocco).  Foods. 2025, Volume 14, Issue 15, 2604.

• Ridwane Ghanimi, Moulay Ahmed El Alaoui EL FELS , Rekia BELAHSEN , María del Pilar Montero López, Mohamed Cherkaoui (febrero 2025). Ethnomedicinal and Antiviral Study of Plants Used by the Moroccan Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Momona Ethiopian Journal of Science(MEJS), V17(1):63-81

• Lorente,Patricia , Veera Ruuskanen, Sebastiaan Mathôt, Antonio Crespo & Jonas Radl (2025): “No evidence for association between pupil size and intelligence among either children or adults”, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 32: 1795–1802. [Link to Working Paper]

• Foley, William, Lea Kröger & Jonas Radl (2025): “Parental support and diversity in sibling personality”, Advances in Life Course Research. Article 100658, Volume 63, March 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100658.

• Requena, M. & Stanek, M. (2025). The Decline of Abortion in Spain Over the Last Decade. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/psrh.70036

• Requena, M. & Reher, D. (2025). Male and Female Cohort Fertility Differences in a Developed Population: Evidence from Spain. Population Studies, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2025.2573930.

• Requena, M. (2025). Within-family educational inequalities in 20th-century Spain. Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 43(2): 217-238. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0212610925100554.

• Valdés, T.M. & Requena, M. (2025). La geografía del abandono escolar temprano en España. Madrid: Centro de Estudios Ramón Areces y Fundación Europea Sociedad y Educación.

• Stanek, M., Juárez, S.P. & Requena, M. (2025). Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Immigrant Health. New Insights from Spain. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-82352-7.

2024

• Momoko Nishikido, Teresa Castro-Martín (2024). Living apart together in contemporary Spain: Diverse motivations across life stages. Advances in Life Course Research, Vol. 61, 100627. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100627.

• Alexopoulou, Kleoniki and Dácil Juif (2024). “Labour Transformations in Central and Southern Africa from Colonial to Postcolonial Times.” In: Bhambra, Gurminder at al. (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Global Sociology, pp. 124-140. London: Sage.

• Frederick, K., Juif, D., and Meier zu Selhausen, F. (2024). “The Revival of African Economic History in the 21st Century: A Bibliometric Analysis.” Revista de Historia Industrial—Industrial History Review, 33(92), 11-48. 

• Mar Larrosa, Angel Gil-Izquierdo, Liliana Guadalupe González-Rodríguez, María José Muñoz Alférez, Alejandro F San Juan, Ángela Sánchez-Gómez, Natalia Calvo-Ayuso, Juan José Ramos-Álvarez, Diego Fernández-Lázaro, Raúl Lopez-Grueso, Inmaculada López-León, Javier Moreno-Lara, Diego Domínguez-Balmaseda, Román Illescas-Quiroga, Eduardo Cuenca, Teba López, Juan José Montoya, Daiana Priscila Rodrigues-de-Souza, Elena Carrillo-Alvarez, Arturo Casado, Belén Rodriguez-Doñate, Mireia Porta-Oliva, Catalina Santiago, Támara Iturriaga, Beatriz De Lucas, Ángela García Solaesa, María del Pilar Montero-López, Elvira Benítez De Gracia, Pablo Veiga-Herreros, Alejandro Muñoz-López, Eva Orantes-Gonzalez, José Carlos Barbero-Alvarez, Ruth Cabeza-Ruiz, Ángel Carnero-Diaz, Isabel Sospedra, Luis Miguel Fernández-Galván, José Miguel Martínez-Sanz, Francisco Javier Martín-Almena, Margarita Pérez, Eduardo J Guerra-Hernández, Álvaro López-Samanes, Antonio Jesús Sánchez-Oliver, Raúl Domínguez (July 2024). Nutritional Strategies for Optimizing Health, Sports Performance, and Recovery for Female Athletes and Other Physically Active Women: A Systematic Review. Nutrition Reviews, nuae082, https://doi.org/10.1093/nutrit/nuae082. 

• Apascaritei, Paula, Jonas Radl & Madeline Swarr (2024): “Material incentives moderate gender differences in cognitive effort among children”, Learning and Individual Differences, Volume 114, 102494. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2024.102494.

• Foley, William & Jonas Radl (2024): “Parenting practices and children’s cognitive effort: A laboratory study”, Journal of Early Adolescence, 45(4): 481-507. https://doi.org/10.1177/02724316241250062. [Download]

• Radl, Jonas & Manuel T. Valdés (2024): “Month of Birth and Cognitive Effort: A Laboratory Study of the Relative Age Effect among Fifth Graders”, Social Forces, 101(1): 153–172. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soae023. [Link to working paper]

• Requena, M. & Valdés, T.M. (2024). Are Younger Students More Likely to Drop Out? Spanish Evidence on the Moderator Role of Gender and Social Origin. European Journal of Education, 59:e12753, https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12753.

• Requena, M. & Stanek, M. (2024). Differential rates of induced abortion in Spain: educational attainment and age among native and immigrant women. Gaceta Sanitaria, 38:102419, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaceta.2024.102419.

• Dello Iacono, C., Requena, M. & Stanek, M.(2024). Latina paradox in Spain? Arrival-cohort effects on the birth weight of newborns of Latina mothers. Journal of Biosocial Science, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932024000099.

• Dello Iacono, C., Requena, M. & Stanek, M.(2024). Social inequalities, advanced maternal age, and birthweight. Evidence from a population-based study in Spain. Gaceta Sanitaria, 38, 102386. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaceta.2024.102386.

• Valdés, T.M. & Requena, M. (2024). The effect of the age at school entry on educational attainment and field of study: an analysis using the Spanish census, Higher Education, 87: 1061–1083, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-023-01053-5.

• Requena, M.   (2024). Early school leaving, number of siblings, and birth order in Spain, Oxford Review of Education, 50(5): 676–693, https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2023.2281313.

• Requena, M., Salazar, L. & Radl J. (2024). Estratificación social. Segunda edición. Madrid: McGraw Hill.