About
Almudena Sevilla is Professor of Economic and Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in January 2025 for her contributions to economics and her leadership in advancing women in the profession.
She is the Founding Chair and now Ambassador of the Royal Economic Society’s UK Women in Economics Network, and she leads the LSE Women in Social and Public Policy Research Hub. Her previous academic positions include University College London, Queen Mary University of London, the University of Oxford, the University of Essex, and the Congressional Budget Office in Washington DC. She received her PhD in Economics from Brown University in 2004, specialising in family and population economics and econometrics.
Professor Sevilla plays an active leadership role in several major economic associations and has recently been elected President of the Society of the Economics of the Household. She is a frequent speaker at leading academic, policy, and public forums, where she engages with evidence on gender inequalities, labour markets, and household behaviour.
Key Published Work
Borra, C., Costa-Ramon, A., Gonzalez, L., & Sevilla-Sanz, A.
(In press). The causal effect
of an income shock on children’s human capital. Journal of Labor Economics
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/733052
Cuevas Ruiz, P., Gimenez-Nadal, N., Manfredi, A., and Sevilla, A. (forthcoming). A New Model of Parental Time Investments: A Paradigm Shift for Addressing Gender Inequality in the Labor Market. Oxford Review of Economic Policy
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
Research
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.
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