Dani Marinova

Dani Marinova is a Serra Húnter Associate Professor of Political Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Indiana University Bloomington, where she received the Katherine C. Greenough Award for best doctoral dissertation. She has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Hertie School of Governance (Berlin), a Juan de la Cierva research fellow, and a recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship from the European Commission. She is the author of the book *Coping with Complexity: How Voters Adapt to Unstable Parties* (ECPR Press), which won the GESIS Klingemann Award, and has published in leading journals such as the *European Journal of Political Research*, *Journal of European Social Policy*, and *Perspectives on Politics*.

In recent years, she has led competitive projects on work-life balance policies, gender inequality, and workplace discrimination, based on the generation of original data through longitudinal surveys and field experiments. Her work has received public attention in media outlets such as *El País*. She is currently the Director of the Official Master’s Program in Political Science.

CONTACT

Email: Dani.Marinova@uab.cat
Bluesky: petroleuse-sbd.bsky.social
Web: https://danimarinova.github.io/web/
UAB Research Portal: https://portalrecerca.uab.cat/en/persons/dani-marinova/
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7067-6792
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3 SELECTED PROJECTS

• ¿En tándem o en solitario? Un análisis del uso conjunto vs. individual de los permisos por nacimiento y su impacto en la igualdad de género en España.
  Marinova, D. (Principal Investigator), Bellón Jiménez, P. M. (Collaborator), Schober, P. S. (Collaborator), Carvalho , G. D. (Investigator) & Leon Ramon Borja, M. (Investigator). 1/09/25 → 31/08/28
• Políticas Públicas de Género y Discriminación Laboral: Experimento de Campo en Barcelona, Madrid y Valencia
  Marinova, D. (Principal Investigator), Carvalho , G. D. (Principal Investigator) & Gonzalez Motos, S. (Investigator). 1/12/24 → 31/12/25 1/12/24 → 31/12/25
• ¿BAJAS DE PATERNIDAD MAS LARGAS, MERCADOS LABORALES MAS JUSTOS? EVIDENCIA DE LA REFORMA DEL PERMISO DE PATERNIDAD EN 2021 EN ESPAÑA
  Marinova, D. (Principal Investigator), Ares Abalde, M. (Collaborator), Maestripieri, L. (Collaborator), WULFGRAMM, M. (Collaborator), Tomic ., D. (Collaborator), Dennis ., M. O. (Collaborator), Canero Ruiz, J. (Collaborator), Bellón Jiménez, P. M. (Collaborator), González Motos, S. (Collaborator), Leon Ramon Borja, M. (Collaborator) & Carvalho , G. D. (Investigator). 1/09/21 → 31/08/25

3 HIGHLIGHTED PUBLICATIONS

• Welfare by design: public responses to the distribution of old-age pensions
  Marinova, D. M. & Hellwig, T., 4 Feb 2026, In: European journal of political research. p. 1-21 21 p.
• ¿Iguales e intransferibles?: preferencias por el sistema de permisos por nacimiento
  Cañero Ruiz, J. & Marinova , D. M., Apr 2025, In: Revista Española de Investigaciones Científicas. 190, p. 63-88 26 p.
• Paternity leave and the motherhood penalty: how within-couple inequality conditions policy impact
  Marinova, D. & Bellón Jiménez, P. M., 21 Nov 2025, In: Social Policy and Administration. 28 p.