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Education and employment: B Sc in Economics, University of Cantabria (Spain), 1998; Ph D in Economics, University of Cantabria (Spain), 2003; Assistant Professor of Economic History at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) since September 2003.
Visiting positions: Visiting Research Fellow at the Istituto di Storia delle Alpi, Università della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland), 2004; Marie Curie Experienced Researcher, Lund University (Sweden), Department of Economic History, 2006.
Research interests:
(1) The economic and social history of rural Europe, c. 1700-2000 (especially, rural depopulation and rural occupational change)
(2) The making of rural policy in Europe: an applied historical perspective
(3) Institutions, evolutionary economics, and historical political economy
Awards: Herbert Simon Young Scholar Prize, European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, 2004; young scholar prizes in Spain’s main associations (Economic History, 2004; Historical Demography, 2004; Agricultural History, 2006).
Selected publications:
El declive demográfico de la montaña española (1850-2000) ¿Un drama rural?
[Demographic decline in Spain’s mountain areas (1850-2000). A rural drama?] Madrid, Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación [Ministry of Agriculture, Fishing and Food]. (BOOK)
Extreme depopulation in the Spanish rural mountain areas: a case study of Aragon in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (with Vicente Pinilla), Rural History. Economy, Society, Culture, 15, 2 (2004), pp. 149-166.
Farewell to the peasant republic: marginal rural communities and European industrialisation, 1815-1990, Agricultural History Review, 54, 2 (2006), pp. 257-273.
The decline of agrarian societies in the European countryside: a case-study of Spain in the twentieth century, Agricultural History, 81, 1 (2007), pp. 76-97.
Exit, voice, and disappointment: mountain decline and compensatory rural policy in Spain, forthcoming in Public Administration.
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