CV

Contact Information

Name Gabriel A. Facchini Palma
Professional Title Associate Professor of Economics
Email gabriel.facchini@rhul.ac.uk
Location Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX
Website https://gafap.github.io

Academic Positions

  • 2026 - Present

    Egham, UK

    Associate Professor, Department of Economics
    Royal Holloway, University of London
  • 2022 - 2026

    Egham, UK

    Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
    Royal Holloway, University of London
  • 2017 - 2022

    Barcelona, Spain

    Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Economics
    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  • 2018 - 2018

    Colchester, UK

    Visiting Scholar
    Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex

Education

  • 2017

    Florence, Italy

    PhD in Economics
    European University Institute
    • Committee: Andrea Ichino, Jérôme Adda, Joseph Doyle, Libertad González
  • 2013

    Florence, Italy

    MRes in Economics
    European University Institute
  • 2011

    La Plata, Argentina

    MSc in Economics
    Universidad Nacional de La Plata
  • 2008

    Mendoza, Argentina

    BA in Economics
    Universidad Nacional de Cuyo

Fields of Interest

  • Applied Microeconomics: Labour, Health and Development Economics

Research

  • See the publications page for the full list of published papers, book chapters, working papers and work in progress.

Grants

  • 2026
    Social Science Impact Accelerator - Residency

    PI. £4,000.

  • 2026
    Social Science Impact Accelerator - Policy Support Fund

    PI. £2,500.

  • 2025
    Social Science Impact Accelerator - ECR Staff Public Engagement Bursaries

    PI. £3,000.

  • 2025
    Gates Foundation-STEG Research Fund

    “The First 1000 Days: Understanding Mothers’ Decisions on Breastfeeding and Labour Participation”. Research Team. £25,000.

  • 2024
    Fundació La Caixa Social Research Call (EDUCARE)

    Research Team. €115,000.

  • 2023-2026
    European Commission, Horizon Europe

    “Flexible Approaches to Support Health through Financing” (Grant n. 101095424). Research Team. €4,956,806.12.

  • 2022-2027
    Ramón y Cajal Young Researcher Fellowship

    Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. PI (declined, being incompatible with the position in the UK).

  • 2020-2022
    Proyectos I+D+i, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation

    (PID2019-104619RB-C43). Research Team. €14,000.

  • 2017-2021
    General Secretariat for Research - Generalitat de Catalunya

    (SGR2017-1301). Research Team. €35,420.

  • 2009
    Research grant - Prize for Young Economist, Red Mercosur

    PI. $4,000.

Awards

  • 2018
    Best Paper Award for Young Researchers
    Centro Einaudi
  • 2015
    Young Researcher Award for Best Paper
    Italian Health Economics Association
  • 2012
    Salvador de Madariaga Scholarship
    Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports

    2012-2016.

Professional Service

  • Co-organizer of the roundtable “Incentives, Information and Primary Care Quality” at Senate House, University of London (2026).
  • Co-organizer of the 1st “Workshop on Economics and Primary Care”, Barcelona (2025).
  • Co-organizer of the Workshop “Dades, polítiques i reforma: el nou rumb de l’atenció primària”, Barcelona (2025).
  • Organizer of the roundtable “Staffing in Maternity Wards” at Senate House, University of London (2025).
  • Co-organizer of the Applied Seminar series, 2022. Department of Economics, Royal Holloway.
  • Co-organizer of the Departmental Seminar series, 2018-2021. Department of Applied Economics, UAB.

Invited Seminars

  • 2025

    Institute for Economic Analysis (CSIC), Spain; European Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy; OECD “What Works to Stop Violence Against Women? Causal Evidence, Real World Impact”, France; Health Economics Seminar, Department of Economics, Oxford University, UK.

  • 2022

    Departamento de Economía, Universidad de Barcelona, Spain; Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London, UK.

  • 2019

    Centre de Recerca en Economia i Salut (UPF), Spain.

  • 2018

    CAF - Banco de Desarrollo de America Latina, Argentina; Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research; Economics Department, Sabanci University; Applied Economics Department, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.

Conference Presentations

  • 2026

    2nd Workshop on Economics of Maternal and Infant Outcomes - City Health Economics Centre (CHEC); 39th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (Helsinki, Finland); RFBerlin Conference “Health and Economic Well-Being: Evidence, Policy and Frontiers” (Berlin, Germany).

  • 2025

    American-European Health Economics Study Group IX Edition (Oxford, England); Third Italian Workshop on the Health Economics of Risky Behaviors (HERD) (Bologna, Italy); AASLE-SOLE-EALE Sixth World Labor Conference (Toronto, Canada).

  • 2024

    1st Workshop on Violence Against Women (Barcelona, Spain); American-European Health Economics Study Group VIII Edition (Catania, Italy); 2nd Diversity and Human Capital Workshop (Exeter, England); RHUL Summer Workshop on the Economics of Inter-Group Relations and Integration (London, England); Workshop on Labour and Family Economics (York, England); EALE (Bergen, Norway); 4th CReAM/RWI Workshop on the Economics of Migration (Essen, Germany); 1st Workshop on “Violence against Women: Drivers and Policies” (Barcelona, Spain).

  • 2023

    American-European Health Economics Study Group (Harvard Kennedy School, US); Barcelona School of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain); Workshop on Labour and Human Capital Accumulation, Royal Holloway University of London (UK).

  • 2021

    34th Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (Barcelona).

  • 2020

    EALE-SOLE-AASLE World Conference (Virtual); 12th World Congress of the Econometric Society (Virtual).

  • 2019

    Centre de Recerca en Economia i Salut (CRES) (UPF-Barcelona); LACEA Health Economics Network Workshop (Universidad del Pacífico, Perú); LACEA Annual Meeting (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico); International Health Economics Association (Basel, Switzerland).

  • 2018

    Institute for Social and Economic Research at University of Essex.

  • 2017

    29th Annual Conference of the European Association of Labour Economists (St. Gallen); 32nd Annual Conference of the European Economic Association (Lisbon); Bi-Annual World Congress of the International Health Economics Association (Boston); COSME Gender Economics Workshop (Madrid); Applied Microeconomics Workshop (Bolzano).

  • 2016

    European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society (Edinburgh); 4th SIdE Workshop for PhD students in Econometrics and Empirical Economics (Perugia); 31st Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (Geneva); 3rd Annual Conferences of the International Association for Applied Econometrics (Milan); 7th Workshop on Institutions, Individual Behavior and Economic Outcomes (Alghero); Royal Economic Society 2nd Symposium of Junior Researchers (Brighton); Warwick Economics PhD Conference (Coventry); Economics, Health and Happiness Conference (Lugano).

  • 2015

    8th Italian Doctoral Workshop in Empirical Economics (Turin); 20th Conference - Associazione Italiana di Economia Sanitaria (Alghero); International Conference on Applied Research in Economics ICARE (Perm).

Teaching

  • See the teaching page for the full list of courses taught at Royal Holloway, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the European University Institute.
  • Professional recognition: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Advance HE, UK - 2024.

Referee Service

  • Review of Economic Studies, Economic Journal, Health Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Oxford Bulletin, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, European Economic Review, Frontiers in Behavioral Economics, Economics and Human Biology, Economic Modelling, Empirical Economics, European Journal of Population, Economic Policy, International Journal of Health Economics and Management.

Other Employment

  • 2010 - 2012

    Washington DC, US

    Consultant, Poverty Reduction and Gender Unit for Latin America and the Caribbean
    World Bank
  • 2008 - 2010

    La Plata, Argentina

    Research Assistant
    Center for Distributive, Labor and Social Studies (CEDLAS)

Languages

  • Spanish (native), English (fluent), Italian (advanced), Portuguese (basic), Catalan (basic).