José Alberto Molina is Full Professor of Economics (University of Zaragoza, Spain) since 2012. He is the Director of the Institute on Employment, Digital Society and Sustainability-IEDIS (University of Zaragoza, Spain) since January 2021. He is also Research Fellow at IZA (https://www.iza.org/) and GLO (https://glabor.org/). Professor Molina has been Visiting Fellow at Warwick University (UK), at the University of Rhode Island (US) and at the Boston College (US)
The main research area of Professor Molina is microeconomics and, particularly, population and family economics, labour economics, urban mobility and well-being, with specific interest in intra-household allocation and inter-generational transfers.
Professor Molina has edited two books of Springer: "Household Economic Behaviors" in 2011 (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781441994301) and "Mothers in the Labor Market" in 2022 (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-99780-9).
José Alberto Molina has published in Ecological Economics, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Economic Modelling, Economics of Education Review, Energy Policy, European Journal of Health Economics, Feminist Economics, Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Policy Modelling, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Transport Geography, Kyklos, PLOS ONE, Review of Economics of the Household, Review of Income and Wealth, Transport Policy and Transportation Research A, among others.
Professor Molina is currently principal investigator of projects funded by the European Union, by the Spanish Ministry of Education (Fulbright Program) and by the Government of Aragon, as well as participating in other projects of the European Union (Marie Curie Actions) and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
He is international reviewer of JCR journals, of research projects and grants, and of doctoral theses. He is currently Associate Editor of Applied Economics, Applied Economics Letters, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, PLOS ONE, and Review of Economics of the Household.
Finally, Professor Molina has been the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies of the University of Zaragoza during a decade (2005-2015), and the President of the Spanish Association of Deans of Economic and Business Studies (2009-2011). Professor Molina is ranked in the top 2% of Economists in Spain (IDEAS-RePEc) and in the top 4% of Economists in the world (IDEAS-RePEc).
Web page: http://personal.unizar.es/jamolina/
ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9437-4606
IDEAS.RePEc Profile: https://ideas.repec.org/f/pmo697.html
Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=_MrPJoEAAAAJ
He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in September 2006.
