Sara Pinillos-Franco

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• Ph.D. in Economics
• Professor (Assistant) at Autonomous University of Madrid

Presupuesto y gasto público 88/2017: 67-86. La crisis económica española ha puesto de manifiesto la imposibilidad de mantener los servicios públicos del estado de bienestar, lo que ha desencadenado en políticas contractivas por parte del Estado Central. En materia sanitaria, más del 90% del gasto se efectúa a nivel autonómico, por lo que se ha de...

Despite progress in legislation protecting the rights and welfare of sexual minorities, homophobic attitudes persist in many societies. To date, research has focused primarily on health consequences for individuals who are the target of homophobic attitudes, but not on those who harbor the prejudice. Using the European Social Survey, we found that...

This study addresses the gender gap in workplace sick leave duration, focusing on the underlying economic and biological factors that contribute to this disparity. Using a novel methodological approach, we combine the stochastic frontier technique with an Oaxaca-Blinder-type decomposition to separate sick leave into medically justified and "opportu...

Most part of the literature has highlighted the detrimental effects of discrimination on health. However, the influence of past and perceived discrimination on older workers’ self-assessed health has been understudied. Firstly, we aim at studying whether reported discrimination is associated with self-assessed health among adults of working ages (5...

We study the gender gap in the duration of sick leave in Spain by splitting this duration into two types of days – those which are related to biological characteristics and those derived from behavioral reasons. Using the Statistics of Accidents at Work for 2011–2019, we found that women presented longer standard durations (i.e., purely attached to...

Most part of the literature has highlighted the detrimental effects of discrimination on health. However, the influence of past and perceived discrimination on older workers’ self-assessed health has been understudied. We aim to study whether reported discrimination is associated with self-assessed health among adults of working ages (50–65 years o...

Background Previous studies found that individuals who harbor hostile attitudes toward immigrants & refugees tend to vote for far right nationalist parties, and that the same individuals also tend to report worse health status. We sought to test these associations using the latest data from 21 EU countries, and also whether the associations were mo...

Background Hostility toward others is related to negative emotions, which is hypothesized to have negative health consequences. In this article, we sought to test the relationship between individuals’ attitudes toward immigrants and their self-rated health (SRH) across time in large dataset of 15 European countries. Methods We used the 2010, 2012,...

The incorporation of Information and Communications Technologies in society has generated a new context in higher education and in relation to training in digital skills to respond to professional and social demand. The objective of this research is to analyse the profile of digital competences of university students, from their perception, as well...

Health has been measured using different indicators such as self-rated health, mental health, psychological wellbeing, depressive symptoms, limiting longstanding illness or mortality rates, among others. In this framework, this paper aims to create a Synthetic Health Indicator using the P2 distance method which offers an alternative to measure indi...

Background: Women live longer than men, but they report worse self-rated health. Using data from 17 European countries, we sought to test whether gender differences in social capital could account for the male/female gap in self-rated health. Methods: We used the first release of the 8th European Social Survey which includes information about in...

Background: Family policies have been shown to affect men's and women's health throughout the European Union, though particularly in the case of women. This paper seeks to analyze this effect by creating two Synthetic Health Indicators (SHIs) differentiated by gender applying the P2 distance method. We also aim to compare the results obtained by m...

Este trabajo de investigación tiene como objetivo comprobar si la salud de los trabajadores es mejor que la de las personas en situación de desempleo en el contexto de la Unión Europea y contrastar la existencia de diferencias de género entre ambos colectivos. Para ello, se han construido dos Indicadores Sintéticos de Salud, uno para empleados y ot...

Background Women tend to report poorer self-rated health than men. It is also well established that education has a positive effect on health. However, the issue of how the benefits of education on health differ between men and women has not received enough attention and the few existing studies which do focus on the subject do not draw a clear con...

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la relación entre el estado de salud autopercibido y la situación laboral de los individuos desde una perspectiva de género, para comprobar si existen diferencias significativas en la manera en que actúan los diferentes determinantes sobre ellos y ellas, haciendo especial hincapié en la influencia de la educa...

La sostenibilidad del gasto sanitario es un viejo problema en nuestro país, aunque la crisis evidencia la imposibilidad de mantener los servicios públicos que constituyen el Estado de Bienestar. La sanidad ha estado seriamente amenazada por la caída del PIB y, por el descenso de los ingresos públicos, a lo que hay que sumar un dramático incremento...