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The UAB is a public university mostly located in Cerdanyola del Vallès, near the city of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. As of 2012, the university consists of 57 departments in the experimental, life, social and human sciences, spread among 13 faculties/schools. All these centers together award a total of 85 qualifications in the form of first degrees, diplomas, and engineering degrees. Moreover, almost 80 doctoral programs, and more than 80 other postgraduate programs are offered. UAB has more than 40,000 students and more than 3,600 academic and research staff. UAB is a pioneering institution in terms of fostering research. There are many research institutes in the campus, as well as other research centers, technical support services, and service-providing laboratories, and the ALBA (synchrotron) located in the Barcelona Synchrotron Park is very close to UAB.

Principal Investigator

Prof. Guadalupe Souto

BA (Econ); PhD (Econ)

Lecturer in Public Economics at the Applied Economics Department of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). She has worked in different fields related to Public Economics, especially in public policies and social expenditure. In the last years, she has been collaborating in different research projects, both at national and international level, analyzing intergenerational transfers and the effects of ageing on social policies. Results of her investigation have been published in different refereed journals as Ecological Economics, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Population Economics, Fiscal Studies, Population and Development Review, Demographic Research, and the Journal of the Economics of Ageing, among others.

Team

• Raquel Andrés