<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Research | Rocio Madera</title><link>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/</link><atom:link href="https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><description>Research</description><generator>HugoBlox Kit (https://hugoblox.com)</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><image><url>https://ro-madera.github.io/media/icon_hu_cab8084c2e726a1.png</url><title>Research</title><link>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/</link></image><item><title>Urban Welfare: Tourism in Barcelona</title><link>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/urban-welfare-tourism-barcelona/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/urban-welfare-tourism-barcelona/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This project studies how tourism and local price changes affect urban welfare in Barcelona.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Spatial Fiscal Policy: Stimulus Payments in a Consumption Network</title><link>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/spatial-fiscal-policy/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/spatial-fiscal-policy/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Work in progress.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Value of Public Insurance Against Idiosyncratic Income Risk: A Variance-Adjustment Statistic</title><link>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/public-insurance-variance-adjustment/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/public-insurance-variance-adjustment/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Submitted. CEPR DP21129. CESifo WP12467.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>The Nonlinear Consumption Response to Income Risk: The Role of Tail Changes and Durables</title><link>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/consumption-tail-risk-durables/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/consumption-tail-risk-durables/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Revise and resubmit, Review of Economic Dynamics.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Early-Career Job Instability and Life-Cycle Income Dynamics</title><link>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/early-career-job-instability/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/early-career-job-instability/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Work in progress.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Self-Employment Promotion as Active Labor Market Policy: Design and Trade-offs in Rigid Labor Markets</title><link>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/self-employment-promotion-policy/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/self-employment-promotion-policy/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This paper studies how self-employment promotion can be designed as active labor-market policy in rigid labor markets.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Individual Careers and Household Income Inequality</title><link>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/couples-income-dynamics/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/couples-income-dynamics/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Work in progress.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Consumption Dynamics and Welfare Under Non-Gaussian Earnings Risk</title><link>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/consumption-dynamics-non-gaussian-risk/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/consumption-dynamics-non-gaussian-risk/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This paper studies how earnings risk beyond a Gaussian benchmark changes household consumption dynamics and welfare.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>University financing: sustainability, efficiency and redistribution</title><link>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/university-financing-sustainability/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/university-financing-sustainability/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Book chapter on university financing and policy design.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>La financiacion de las universidades: sostenibilidad, eficiencia y redistribucion</title><link>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/financiacion-universidades/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/financiacion-universidades/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Spanish-language book chapter on university financing and policy design.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Does Self-Employment Pay? The Role of Unemployment and Earnings Risk</title><link>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/self-employment-pay/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/self-employment-pay/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This paper evaluates self-employment returns while accounting for unemployment and earnings-risk trade-offs.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Effects of Social Insurance on Income Losses and Gains over the Business Cycle</title><link>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/voxeu-asymmetric-income-risk/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/voxeu-asymmetric-income-risk/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Skewed Idiosyncratic Income Risk over the Business Cycle: Sources and Insurance</title><link>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/skewed-idiosyncratic-income-risk/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/skewed-idiosyncratic-income-risk/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This paper measures asymmetric income risk over the business cycle and studies the insurance mechanisms that mitigate it.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Income Contingent University Loans: Policy Design and an Application to Spain</title><link>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/income-contingent-university-loans/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/income-contingent-university-loans/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This paper studies the design of income-contingent university loans and their distributional consequences.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Income-Contingent University Loans: Policy Design and Application to Spain</title><link>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/voxeu-income-contingent-loans/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/voxeu-income-contingent-loans/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Préstamos universitarios contingentes a la renta: diseño y aplicación a España</title><link>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/neg-prestamos-universitarios/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://ro-madera.github.io/publications/neg-prestamos-universitarios/</guid><description/></item></channel></rss>