
PALOMA UBEDA MOLLA
SECR. DPTO. ECON.APLICADA Y ESTADÍSTICA
PROFESORA CONTRATADA DOCTORA
ECONOMÍA APLICADA Y ESTADÍSTICA
FAC.CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES
(+34) 91398-8475
Academic Information
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Academic positions held
2017- : Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods, UNED.
2011-2017: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of the Basque Country
Research activity
Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy, Policy Evaluation.
2019: Linguistic Diversity and Out-Group Discrimination in Bilingual Societies (with Maria Paz Espinosa and Enrique Fatas). Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, DOI information:10.1016/j.socec.2019.06.002
2019: Commitment to political ideology is a luxury only students can afford: A
distributive justice experiment (with Simona Demel, Abigail Barr and Luis Miller).
Journal of Experimental Political Science, 6(1), 33-42.
2018: On the Economic Nature of Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Selective and Sustainable Fishery: A Comparative Empirical Study (with Laura Onofri, Paolo Accadia, Maria-Jose’ Gutierrez, Evelina Sabatella and Francesc Maynou). Scientia Marina. 82 (S1)
2018: The unintended consequences of political mobilization on trust: the case of the secessionist process in Catalonia (with Henar Criado, Francisco Herreros and Luis Miller). Journal of Conflict Resolutio, 62(2), 231-253.
Media Coverage: Piedras de Papel, Politikon, Nada es Grátis
2016: Moral Consequences of Becoming Unemployed (with Abigail Barr and Luis
Miller). Proceeding of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), 113 (17), 4676-
4681.
Media Coverage: Forbes, Money Magazine, Daily Mail, Reason, Ars Technica,
Medical News Today, Alpha Galileo, Science Daily, Phys.org, EurekAlert!, El
País, La Vanguardia, Piedras de Papel, Nada es Gratis, El Correo, Cadena
Ser, Gazeta.ru, Michelino.ru, Radio Euskadi, BBC Tees (1h 21m), Reddit
(#3825 comments)
In the top 50 of Most-Read Articles during April 2016 in PNAS (# 36)
2015: Ethnicity and Trust: a multifactorial experiment (with Henar Criado, Francisco Herreros and Luis Miller). Political Studies, 63(S1), 131–152.
2014: The Consistency of Fairness Rules. An Experimental Study. Journal of
Economic Psychology, 41, 88-100.
2012: Are Women More Sensitive to the Decision-Making Context? (with Luis Miller). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 83(1), 98-104.
2010: Blind Justice: An Experimental Analysis of Random Punishment in Team
Production (with Enrique Fatas and Antonio Morales). Journal of Economic Psychology, 31(3), 358-373.
Professional experience
Computers Tools for economic research: Master en Investigación en Economía. UNED.
2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020.
Econometrics: Third year in Economics and third year in Business Administration, in Spanish, UNED, 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020.
Statistics for Business: Second year in Business Administration, in Spanish, UNED. 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020.
Introduction to Statistics: First year in Business Administration, in Spanish, UNED. 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020.
Introduction to Microeconomics: First year in Economics, in Spanish, UNED. 2018-2019, 2019-2020.
Microeconomics: Second year in Business Administration, in Spanish, UPV/EHU. 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2014-2015 and UNED, 2018-2019, 2019-2020.
Economic Policy: Fourth year in Economics, in English, University of Valencia. 2010-2011. (In English)
Master thesis supervised:
Maria Álvarez, “The Role of Locus of Control in Economic Experiments”, UPV/EHU,2014.
Ibai Martínez, “The Self-serving Bias in Fairness Judgments”, UPV/EHU, 2015.
Josu Alonso, “Pluralism of Fairness Ideals Revisited”, UPV/EHU, 2016.
Teaching
Asignaturas de Grado:
- 65023070 - ECONOMETRÍA (ADE)
- 65024017 - TRABAJO FIN DE GRADO (ADE)
- 65011084 - MATEMÁTICAS PARA LA ECONOMÍA: ÁLGEBRA
Asignaturas de Master:

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PUBLICATIONS IN MAGAZINES
2023: Economic burden of Cardiac Arrest in Spain: analyzing healthcare costs drivers and treatment strategies cost-effectiveness (with Mariano Matilla-Garcia, Fernando Sánchez Martínez, Albert Ariza-Solé, Rocío Gómez López, Esteban López de Sá, Ricard Ferrer). BMC Health Services Research, 23(1), 1220.
2023: Determinants of inequality acceptability in a representative sample of the Spanish population (with Diego Santamaria, Luis Miller & Laura Padilla). Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 106, 102072.
2023: Is the acknowledgement of earned entitlement effect robust across experimental modes and populations?(with Abigail Barr and Luis Miller). Sociological Methods and Research, 52(1), 209-230.
2022: Bringing about the data revolution in development: What data skills do aspiring development professionals need?. (with Rachel Bennett, Gianmarco Alberti, Aytekin Çibik, Tatiana Eremenko, Saviour Formosa, Janice Formosa‐Pace, María Jiménez‐Buedo, Kenneth Lynch andLeire Salazar). Journal of International Development, 34, 1381-1397.
2019: Linguistic Diversity and Out-Group Discrimination in Bilingual Societies (with Maria Paz Espinosa and Enrique Fatas). Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 81, 102-217.
2019: Commitment to political ideology is a luxury only students can afford: A distributive justice experiment (with Simona Demel, Abigail Barr and Luis Miller). Journal of Experimental Political Science, 6(1), 33-42.
Media Coverage: Vox Lacea.
2018: On the Economic Nature of Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Selective and Sustainable Fishery: A Comparative Empirical Study (with Laura Onofri, Paolo Accadia, Maria-Jose’ Gutierrez, Evelina Sabatella and Francesc Maynou). Scientia Marina. 82 (S1).
2018: The unintended consequences of political mobilization on trust: the case of the secessionist process in Catalonia (with Henar Criado, Francisco Herreros and Luis Miller). Journal of Conflict Resolution, 62(2), 231-253.
Media Coverage: Piedras de Papel, Politikon, Nada es Grátis
2016: Moral Consequences of Becoming Unemployed (with Abigail Barr and Luis Miller). Proceeding of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), 113 (17), 4676-4681.
Media Coverage: Forbes, Money Magazine, Daily Mail, Reason, Ars Technica, Medical News Today, Alpha Galileo, Science Daily, Phys.org, EurekAlert!, El País, La Vanguardia, Piedras de Papel, Nada es Gratis, Vox Lacea, El Correo, Cadena Ser, Gazeta.ru, Michelino.ru, Radio Euskadi, BBC Tees (1h 21m), Reddit (#3825 comments). In the top 50 of Most-Read Articles during April 2016 in PNAS (# 36)
2015: Ethnicity and Trust: a multifactorial experiment (with Henar Criado, Francisco Herreros and Luis Miller). Political Studies, 63(S1), 131–152.
Media Coverage: El Mundo.
2014: The Consistency of Fairness Rules. An Experimental Study. Journal of Economic Psychology, 41, 88-100.
2012: Are Women More Sensitive to the Decision-Making Context? (with Luis Miller). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 83(1), 98-104.
Media Coverage: The Conversation.
2010: Blind Justice: An Experimental Analysis of Random Punishment in Team Production (with Enrique Fatas and Antonio Morales). Journal of Economic Psychology, 31(3), 358-373.
OTRAS PUBLICACIONES
2023: Ética de los experimentos económicos (with Luis Miller). Forthcoming in Handbook en Experimentación en Economía. Fundación Ramon Areces.
2024: Evaluación del itinerario de inclusión activa para personas perceptoras del Ingreso Mínimo Vital ofrecido por Cruz Roja España (with Simona Demel). 2024/06 ISEAK.
2024: Manual de evaluación de programas (with Lucia Gorjón and Imanol Izarra). 2024/06 ISEAK.
2023: PerfilaSP: anàlsisi de variables sociològiques i psicològiques com a predictores d’ocupabilitat en el perfilatge dels Serveis d’Ocupació de Catalunya (with Oscar Molina, Álvaro Junquera, Joan Verd, Rafael Sánchez, Mireia Galobardes and Sílvia Miró). Escola d’Administració Pública de Catalunya.
2019: Situación de la Población Gitana en España en Relación al Empleo y la Pobreza (with Sara de la Rica, Lucia Gorjón y Luis Miller). Madrid: ISEAK. Fundación Secretariado Gitano.
2019: Economía experimental y del comportamiento. Review. In Economía Industrial, n. 413.
2018: Evaluación del programa Lanzaderas de empleo y emprendimiento solidario anezka (with Sara de la Rica and Luis Miller). 2018/2 ISEAK.
2016: El voto economico (with Luis Miller), in F.Llera (Ed.). Las elecciones vascas en 2012. Un análisis diacrónico y multilevel, CIS.
