Almudena Sevilla is a Professor of Economic and Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy at LSE and is currently the Founding Chair of the Royal Economic Society UK Women in Economics Network and the LSE Women in Social and Public Policy Research Hub. She has also held positions at University College London, Queen Mary University, University of Oxford, University of Essex, and the Congressional Budget Office in Washington DC. She received her Ph.D. from Brown University in 2004 in the fields of family and population economics and econometrics.
Almudena has a successful track-record in gender economics research. Early in her career, she received the prestigious Marie J. Langlois Prize for her doctoral research on gender economics and the status of women in the academic field. Her research is regularly published in top-tier international journals such as the American Economic Review, Demography, and the Journal of Labor Economics. She also serves on the editorial boards of leading journals including Feminist Economics and Review of the Economics of the Household. Her work has attracted substantial research funding, including the highly competitive European Research Council Consolidator Grant of over £2M. Professor Sevilla holds key leadership positions in major economic associations, has recently been elected President of the Society of the Economics of the Household, and is a sought-after speaker at leading academic and policy forums where she discusses women's roles in the economy.
Key Published Work
Nollenberger, N., Rodríguez-Planas, N., & Sevilla, A. (2016). The math gender gap: The role of culture. American Economic Review, 106(5), 257-61. DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20161121
Amuedo-Dorantes, C., Arenas-Arroyo, E., & Sevilla, A. (2018). Immigration enforcement and economic resources of children with likely unauthorized parents. Journal of Public Economics, 158, 63-78. Read here.
Borra, C., González, L., & Sevilla, A. (2016). Birth timing and neonatal health. American Economic Review, 106(5), 329-32. DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20161123
Sevilla, A., & Smith, S. (2020). Baby steps: The gender division of childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 36(Supplement_1), S169-S186, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/graa027
Sevilla, A., Phimister, A., Krutikova, S., Kraftman, L., Farquharson, C., Dias, MC, Cattan, S., & Andrew, A.(2020). How are mothers and fathers balancing work and family under lockdown?(IFS Briefing Note; No. 290).
https://doi. org/10.1920/BN. IFS. 2020. BN0290
Sevilla, A. (2020). Gender economics: an assessment. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 36(4), 725-742.
https://academic.oup.com/oxrep/article-abstract/36/4/725/6124296