Judit Vall

Judit Vall is a professor of Applied Economics at the University of Barcelona and an ICREA Academia researcher since 2022. She is an applied economist specialising in public policy evaluation, with a focus on health economics, labour economics and gender economics, and extensive experience in the use of advanced econometric methods for causal analysis.

She obtained her PhD from Maastricht University with a Marie Curie pre-doctoral fellowship, having previously completed a Master’s degree at the University of Essex. She has undertaken postdoctoral fellowships at Stony Brook University (NY) as a Fulbright-Schuman Fellow and at CRES-UPF with a Robert Solow Fellowship awarded by the Cournot Centre for Economic Research (Paris). She has also been a visiting researcher at leading international institutions such as NYU, NBER, LSE, McGill University and Yale-NUS College (Singapore).

Her research focuses on the analysis of the impact of public policies on health, the labor market and inequalities, including areas such as aging, disability, pensions, immigration or gender equality. Her works have been published in international prestigious academic journals.

She has been Director of Research at the Centre for Research in Economics and Health (CRES) of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and has led and participated in numerous national and European competitive projects, including PANDEMIES 2020, as well as projects from the Horizon 2020 program such as REMINDER (immigration and well-being) and METADIS (healthy aging). Additionally, she has worked for six months as an advisor at the Presidency of the Government of Spain (La Moncloa), contributing to the analysis and design of public policies.

Currently she is President of the Catalan Society of Economics, member of the Executive Council of the Spanish Economic Association and senior researcher in health policies at EsadeEcPol. She has also collaborated as an external consultant for the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) of the European Commission.