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SANDRA NIETO
Curriculum vitae
April 2016
Web: http://www.sandranieto.net/
March 15th, 1984
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Economia i Empresa.
Avda. Tibidabo 39-43 - 08035 Barcelona (Spain)
E-mail: [email protected] / [email protected]
Date of birth:
Office address:
MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS
Labour Economics (educational mismatch and wage effects); Economics of Education
(determinants of educational outcomes), Regional and Urban economics.
PROFESSIONAL STATUS
Dec 2014-
Post-doctoral researcher at Open University of Catalonia
Sept 2012-
Consultant at Open University of Catalonia
Mar 2014-Nov 2014
Technician at Agència per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de
Catalunya (AQU Catalunya)
Feb 2010-Jan 2014
Research assistant at Regional Quantitative Analysis research group
(AQR-IREA).
ACADEMIC DEGREES
2010-2014
PhD in Economics, University of Barcelona. (September 26, 2014)
Title: Essays on Overeducation: Evidence from Spain
Advisor: Raúl Ramos
PhD Committee: Josep Lluís Raymond, Massimiliano Bratti, Enrique
López Bazo
2008-2010
Master in Economics, University of Barcelona.
2005-5008
Graduated in Economics, University of Barcelona.
HABILITATIONS
2016
Accreditation as Tenure-Track Lecturer (“Professor Lector”) by the
Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU), Spain
2015
Accreditation as Tenured Assistant Professor (“Profesor Ayudante
Doctor”) by the National Agency for Quality Assessment and
Accreditation of Spain (ANECA), Spain
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SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
2015
María Jesús San Segundo Best Paper Award for Young
Researchers for “Overeducation, skills and wage penalty: Evidence
for Spain using PIAAC data” presented in the XXIV meeting of the
Economics of Education Association.
Mar 2013 - Jun 2013
Predoctoral Fellowship for research visit (Spanish Ministry of
Education).
Dec 2010 - Jan 2014
Predoctoral Fellowship for research training FPU 2010 (Spanish
Ministry of Education)
Feb 2010 - Dec 2010
Predoctoral Fellowship for research training FI 2010 (Catalan
Government)
RESEARCH VISITS
Mar 2013 – Jun 2013
TIER, University of Amsterdam
PUBLICATIONS IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS
Nieto, S.; Ramos, R. (2015). Educational outcomes and socioeconomic status: A decomposition
analysis for middle-income countries. Prospects, 45(3), 325-343.
Ramos, R; Matano, A; Nieto, S. (2015). EU Immigrant Integration Policies and Returns on
Human Capital. The International Spectator, 50(3), 78-87.
Nieto, S.; Matano, A.; Ramos, R. (2015). Skill
Mismatches in
International Journal of Manpower, 36 (4), 540 – 561.
EU: immigrants vs. natives.
Nieto, S.; Ramos, R. (2013). Non-formal education, overeducation and wages. Revista de
Economía Aplicada, 61 (vol.XXI), 5-28.
Nieto, S.; Ramos, R. (2011). ¿La sobreeducación de los padres afecta al rendimiento académico
de sus hijos?. Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies/ Estudios Económicos Regionales y
Sectoriales, 11 (3), 97-118.
WORKING PAPERS
Nieto, S. (2014). “Overeducation, skills and wage penalty: Evidence for Spain using PIAAC
data”. Working Paper 2014/06 AQR-IREA.
Ramos, R.; Duque, J. C.; Nieto, S. (2012). “Decomposing the Rural-Urban Differential in
Student Achievement in Colombia Using PISA Microdata”, IZA Discussion Paper n.6515.
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OTHER PUBLICATIONS
AQU Catalunya (2014). La inserció laboral dels doctors i doctores de les universitats catalanes.
Nieto, S., Ramos, R. (2011). Sobreeducación, Educación no formal y Crisis Económica,
Informe CYD 2010.
Artís, M., García, J.R., Nieto, S., Ramos, R. Surinach, J. (2010). Necessitats de qualificació
professional de les empreses a Catalunya DOCT AQR-2010C26.
PARTICIPATION IN WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS…
2015
XVII Encuentro de Economía Aplicada (Alicante, Spain); XXIV Jornadas de la
Asociación de Economía de la Educación (Madrid, Spain); XI Jornadas de
Economía Laboral (Barcelona, Spain); Third Lisbon Research Workshop on
Economics, Statistics and Econometrics of Education (Lisbon, Portugal).
2014
XVII Encuentro de Economía Aplicada (Gran Canaria, Spain); XXIX National
Conference of Labour Economics (Pisa, Italy).
2013
XXII Jornadas de la Asociación de Economía de la Educación (A Coruña, Spain);
X Jornadas de Economía Laboral (Madrid, Spain)
2012
52nd ERSA Congress (Bratislava, Slovakia); VI World Conference Spatial
Econometrics Association (Salvador de Bahía, Brasil); XXI Jornadas de la
Asociación de Economía de la Educación (Oporto, Portugal); XV Encuentro de
Economía Aplicada (A Coruña, Spain)
2011
XIV Encuentro de Economía Aplicada (Huelva, Spain); XX Jornadas de la
Asociación de Economía de la Educación (Málaga, Spain); IX Jornadas de
Economía Laboral (Santiago de Compostela, Spain); IV Congreso Nacional sobre
Mercado de Trabajo y Relaciones Laborales (Palencia, Spain)
PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS
2013
Decomposition of differences in PISA in middle income countries, Education For
All Global Monitoring Report. UNESCO. IP: Raul Ramos
2010-2013 Crecimiento económico regional y desigualdad en España (Regional economic
growth and inquality in Spain), Spanish Ministry of Education and Science,
CICYT ECO2010-16006. IP: Raul Ramos.
2010-2014 Sharing KnowledgE Assets: InteRegionally Cohesive NeigHborhoods (SEARCH),
FP7-SSH-2010-2.2-1 (266834). IP: Jordi Suriñach.
2012
Workshop on regional and urban economics: Innovation and Regional Economic
Performanc, ARCS 1 00271, Catalan Government. IP: Rosina Moreno
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- Coordinator of the AQR Lunch Seminars Series, February 2012 - July 2013.
- Member of the Local Committee at the III World Conference of Spatial Econometrics that was
held on July 8th-10th 2009 at the University of Barcelona.
- Member of the volunteer student support team attended and cooperated in various
organizational tasks during the 51st Congress of the European Regional Science Association
and the 37th Meeting of Regional Studies of the Spanish Association of Regional Science: New
Challenges for European Regions and Urban Areas in a Globalised World.
- Computer skills: OFFICE, STATA, EVIEWS, SPSS, R
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