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Alba Lanau
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Poverty, Social Policy, Gender
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Cerramos el congreso de la #REPS hablando de evaluación #REPSLogroño @eloisadelpino.bsky.social FFantova y J. Zalakain
October 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Check out the PhD Research Seminars @politiquesupf.bsky.social www.upf.edu/documents/d/...
October 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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First DemoSoc seminar of the year. Come join us!
October 3, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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October 1st we will publish the call for a funded PhD student to work @demosocupf.bsky.social in the project 'Unpacking the Puzzle of Child Poverty: Why Child Poverty Persists Despite Economic Recovery and Declining Inequality', funded by the Spanish Research Agency. Interested? Get in touch!
Project description: UNPACK departs from three empirical observations about child poverty. First, child poverty rates in Spain are consistently higher than would be expected by its economic development. Second, child poverty rates have not decreased with economic growth since the end of the Great Recession, while adult poverty rates do, even if slightly. Third, recent policy reforms targeted at combatting inequality and reducing poverty have resulted in improvements in employment and several welfare and equity indicators, but appear to have limited impact on child poverty reduction. High child poverty rates in Spain, and more widely Southern Europe, have been traditionally associated with weak labour markets and underdeveloped social protection systems that poorly target families with children. However, neither improving labour market prospects nor the introduction of new policy initiatives appear to impact child poverty rates. This project seeks to approach this puzzle by (a) further exploring child poverty trends in Spain and (Southern) Europe, (b) extending the literature on child poverty and labour markets with particular attention to poverty dynamics, and (c) analysing the design and outcomes of recent poverty reforms in Southern Europe targeted at reducing child poverty. In doing so, the project seeks to further our understanding of the determinants of disappointing child poverty trends in Spain and Europe, and elaborate relevant policy proposals
September 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Yesterday a discussion about young people mental health reminded me of the analysis I did for the African Report on Child Wellbeing w data from GSHS health survey. Poor #MentalHealth is not a thing from the west or the privileged, we just get to talk about it www.africanchild.report
Suicide plan and attempted suicide by for boys and girls in a range of African countries https://www.africanchild.report/
July 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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The #Spain wealth atlas has tons of interesting data on wealth distributio over time and by region. For instance this graph on HH with no housing wealth #inequality #wealth spainwealthatlas.world/compare-regi...
June 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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España es el país de la EU donde las transferencias tienen menor impacto en la pobreza infantil. Las transferencias en España reducen la pobreza infantil en 25% en comparación con 45.6% para la EU-27. Datos de Eurostat (ilc_li02, ilc_li09)
Tasas de pobreza infantil antes y después de tranferencias en diferentes paises Europeos. Tablas originales ilc_li02 y ilc_li09
June 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Convergence in the NEET rates across the European Union: do gender differences persist? Next week @demosocupf.bsky.social
More info here. Come join us!
www.upf.edu/web/politiqu...
May 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Hoy en la Fundación Giménez Abad en las Cortes de Aragón hablando sobre pobreza infantil #pobreza #infancia @demosocupf.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Policing queer and disabled identities. Innovative research with administrative data by @emanuelemurgolo.bsky.social @demosocupf.bsky.social @upf.edu
May 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Researcher Career Path in Spain guide has just been updated. www.fecyt.es/publicacione...
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April 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Social inequalities and the criminal justice system (CJS). It reflects and reinforces inequality. Exciting talk today by @mrovira.bsky.social @demosocupf.bsky.social @politiquesupf.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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New paper accepted for publication on how low income-families with chlidren respond to financial shocks.
"Different sized belts: family strategies against financial shocks" pre-print available here: osf.io/preprints/so... #ChildPoverty #SocialPolicy
Abstract: When faced with financial shocks families often combine multiple resources, including savings, networks, public transfers and services, to cover their needs and respond to changing conditions. This paper explores the strategies families with children in Barcelona deploy to respond to financial shocks by analysing interviews with 29 families experiencing difficulties to make ends meet. The paper makes three main contributions to the literature on responses to shocks. First, it provides novel evidence on how and to what extent families strategies are shaped by their past trajectories and resources. Second, it introduces a novel technique, event interviews, specifically designed to study family responses to events and identify the resources (both public and private) they rely on. Third, by contrasting the experiences of families with diverse resources, the paper seeks to illuminate some of the mechanisms through which structural constraints shape coping strategies and thus, agency. Understanding family strategies is particularly relevant in the current context framed by the aftermath of the COVID pandemic and the recent increases in energy, food and housing prices which affected the most disadvantaged the most.
April 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Avui parlem sobre Joventut implicació política i comunicació amb Roger Soler, Mireia Bolívar i Laura Pérez @upf.edu
February 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Today's resource: 'Geographic inequalities in accessibility of essential services'. Reports gaps accessibility (distance) of education, childcare and employment services in OECD countries with some cool figures #SocialPolicy #Inequality #PublicServices www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
December 20, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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Li he demanat al ChatGPT que solucioni un problema social a Catalunya (estic preparant una classe), i deu ser que ja em coneix, però sembla tenir clares les coses. Això si, res de dades ni referències, i no contrasta alternatives no aprovaria.
December 13, 2024 at 11:45 AM
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Calling Doctoral Workshop Comparative Social and Public Policy. Dirigido a estudiantes de doctorado #REPS #ESPAnet Spain
November 26, 2024 at 9:55 AM
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HSBC just made available their data on family and peer relations. Useful for teaching.
Below communication with mother by affluence level.
Data browser: data-browser.hbsc.org/measure/fami...
HSBC data 2022 communication with mother by affluence level. Girls in low affluence households fare worst, boys in the same households best
November 16, 2024 at 11:26 AM
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Today's DemoSoc seminar Albert Arcarons decomposes the migrant child poverty penalty. Country of origin shapes risk factors
November 12, 2024 at 11:14 AM
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Next DemoSoc seminar Tomorrow, November 12th at noon. All welcome
Albert Arcarons will talk about Migrant origin children and child poverty in Spain: a decomposition analysis #sociology #demography #poverty
November 11, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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The Impact of EU Tax and Benefit Systems on #ChildPoverty and Inequality.
One picture: substantial country variations
One except: Non-poor households receive more than 50% of the total child-contingent cash support for all EU countries
All the details:
publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...
Child contingent cash support, average per child by income deciles. Share of GDP per capita EU-27, 2022
November 11, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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Avui a la @UPFBarcelona parlem de Gaza. Les dades són escalofriants. La fam, la set i la por com a armes de guerra
May 2, 2024 at 11:16 AM
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Full room for Simone Schneiders Talk on the role of social institutions on perceptions of inequality @UPFBarcelona #DemoSoc
February 15, 2024 at 12:04 PM
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This is tomorrow @UPF Barcelona
January 24, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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DemoSoc seminars are open to all at UPF Barcelona. Check them out and come join us
January 15, 2024 at 2:30 PM