Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1987), a Master’s degree in Economic Analysis from the UAB and the IAE (1989), and a PhD in Economics from Pompeu Fabra University (1994). He is currently a Professor in the Department of Economics and Business at the UPF, an Associate Researcher at FEDEA and Principal Investigator at the Centre for Research in Economics and Health (CRES-UPF). Previously, he pursued his teaching and research career at the Carlos III University of Madrid. His areas of specialisation include applied microeconometrics, labour economics — with a particular focus on social security and pension systems — and health economics.
His academic output includes publications in leading international journals such as *The Economics Journal*, *Journal of Labour Economics*, *Journal of Applied Econometrics* and *Journal of Health Economics*, as well as contributions to volumes edited by the University of Chicago. He is an external consultant to the World Bank and maintains close links with research centres and economic policy bodies at both national and international levels. He sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Microeconometrics and serves as an associate editor of Empirical Economics.
At an institutional level, he heads the La Caixa-FEDEA Chair in Health Economics and Lifestyle and is Director of the Barcelona Microeconometrics Summer School (BMiSS) at the Barcelona School of Economics, where he is also an Affiliated Professor. Throughout his career, he has supervised numerous doctoral theses, the authors of which now hold academic and institutional positions in Spain and abroad.