Research fields
- Economic history
- Welfare state
- Education
- Redistribution
Selected publications
- Espuelas, S. 2022. Trade globalization and social spending in Spain, 1850-2000, European Review of Economic History.
- Sabaté, O.; Espuelas, S; Herranz-Loncán, A. 2020. Military wages and coups d’état in Spain (1850-1915): the use of public spending as a coup-proofing strategy, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, pp 1-37. (DOI 10.1017/S0212610920000270)
- Espuelas, S. 2017. Political Regime and Public Social Spending in Spain: A Time Series analysis (1850-2000). Revista de Historia Económica, 35(3): 355 – 386.
- Espuelas, S. 2015. The inequality trap. A comparative analysis of social spending between 1880 and 1930. Economic History Review, 68(2): 683 – 706.
- Espuelas, S. 2013. La evolución del gasto social público en España, 1850-2005. Estudios de Historia Económica, 63. Madrid, Banco de E spaña ISBN: 1579-8682.
