Cristina Bellés Obrero

IAE-CSIC and BSE

PhD, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Research interests

  • Health Economics
  • Family Economics
  • Gender Economics
  • Economics of Education
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Teaching at the Barcelona School of Economics

Cristina Bellés Obrero is a Tenured Scientist at the Institute for Economics Analysis (IAE-CSIC) and an Affiliated Professor of the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE).

Professor Bellés Obrero is also an Associate Researcher at the Institut d’Economia de Barcelona (IEB) and an IZA Research Affiliate.

She has been a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Mannheim and a Beatriu de Pinós Research Fellow at Universitat de Barcelona.

Her main research interests are in the areas of Health Economics, Family Economics, Gender Economics and Economics of Education.

Working Papers

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Working Paper

The Effect of Removing Early Retirement on Mortality

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Cristina Bellés Obrero,Sergi Jiménez-Martín, andHan Ye
BSE Working Paper 1528
October 2025
Working Paper

When Policy Meets Weather: Extreme Temperatures and Workplace Safety

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Cristina Bellés Obrero,Giulia Montresor, andCatia Nicodemo
BSE Working Paper 1519
October 2025
Working Paper

Social Pensions and Intimate Partner Violence against Older Women

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Cristina Bellés Obrero,Giulia La Mattina, andHen Ya
BSE Working Paper 1491
May 2025
Working Paper

Education and Gender Differences in Mortality Rates

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Cristina Bellés Obrero,Sergi Jiménez-Martín, andJudit Vall-Castello
BSE Working Paper 1103
July 2019
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Mothers’ Care: Reversing Early Childhood Health Shocks through Parental Investments

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Cristina Bellés Obrero,Antonio Cabrales,Sergi Jiménez-Martín, andJudit Vall-Castello
BSE Working Paper 1068
January 2019
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The Unintended Effects of Increasing the Legal Working Age on Family Behavior

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Cristina Bellés Obrero,Sergi Jiménez-Martín, andJudit Vall-Castello
BSE Working Paper 833
September 2015

Publications

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Education and Gender Differences in Mortality Rates

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Cristina Bellés Obrero, Sergi Jiménez-Martín, and Judit Vall-Castello
Health Economics and Journal of Population Economics

September 2021
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Education and the life expectancy gender gap

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Cristina Bellés Obrero, Sergi Jiménez-Martín, and Judit Vall-Castello

June 2020
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Bad Times, Slimmer Children?

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Cristina Bellés Obrero, Sergi Jiménez-Martín, and Judit Vall-Castello
Health Economics

January 2017
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