Member of the Equality Committee
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Journal editorial committees
Associate Editor of the journal Feminist Economics (included in JCR and associated with the International Association for Feminist Economics, IAFFE (2013 2016)). Member of the Editorial Board of Feminist Economics (2016-present). Member of the Scientific Committee of the journal Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics (included in JCR (2010 - 2015)).
Coral Del Río Otero
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Academic and professional trajectory
Professor of Economics at the University of Vigo (Vigo, Spain), in the Department of Applied Economics. PhD in Economics from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Madrid, Spain).
Research topics and main scientific contributions
Study of economic inequalities in a broad sense, considering his main lines of research: the economics of inequality and the analysis of poverty, the interactions between economics and gender, and the study of the labour market from a distributive perspective. In his research work he has made methodological contributions, aimed at introducing improvements in the quantification of inequality (from a centrist approach), intertemporal poverty, wage discrimination, segregation and the loss of welfare associated with it (thanks to the proposal of new indices), with empirical studies at the level of Galicia, Spain, Europe and the United States focusing on income distribution, unemployment, wage discrimination and occupational segregation based on sex, race, social class, migratory status and sexual orientation.
Other merits of interest
Member of the EQUALITAS Network whose field of activity is the economics of inequality.
Research six-year period: 4.
