Gabriela de Carvalho is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Institute of Government and Public Policy (IGOP), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, for the period 2025–2027. She is a specialist in comparative social policies, with a particular focus on inequalities in access to social benefits and how these disparities can deepen existing social divides. Gabriela is also an Affiliated Fellow at the Research Centre on Inequality and Social Policy at the University of Bremen.
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AREAS OF INTEREST
Social policies, inequality.
MAIN PROJECTS
- Políticas Públicas de Género y Discriminación Laboral: Experimento de Campo en Barcelona, Madrid y Valencia. Marinova, D. (PI), Carvalho , G. D. (PI) & Gonzalez Motos, S. (Investigador/a) 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 .
3 HIGHLIGHTED PUBLICATIONS
- Malinar, A., & de Carvalho, G. (2024). International organisations as policy bricoleurs: An analysis of the World Bank’s healthcare financing recommendations for Argentina and Croatia. Contemporary Politics, 31(1), 86–109. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2024.2314217
- Sternkopf, M., de Carvalho, G., & Fischer, J. (2024). New agendas and old legacies? Comparing international organisations’ proposals on health and long-term care systems in Latin America. Global Social Policy, 24(3), 433-455. https://doi.org/10.1177/14680181241254087 (Original work published 2024)
- Schmid, A., de Carvalho, G., & Rothgang, H. (2024). The origins of social protection in healthcare: classifying healthcare systems at introduction in 165 countries. Policy Studies, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2024.2390960
