Biography

Madelin Gomez-León is a post-doctoral researcher at the Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology (RECSM, Pompeu Fabra University). She has a PhD in Demography from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) from 2013. She worked as a Research Fellow at the ESRC Centre for Population Change (CPC), University of Southampton, UK and as a pre-doctoral student at the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED), Spain. Her research interests focus on intergenerational exchange of support, consequences of population ageing, life expectancy and healthy life expectancy.

Publications (last 5 years)

Gomez-Leon, M., Evandrou, M., Falkingham, J. and Vlachantoni, A. (2017) The dynamics of social care and employment in mid-life, Ageing and Society, published online August, 2017.

Evandrou,M.; Falkingham, J.; Gomez-Leon, M. and Vlachantoni, A. (2016) Intergenerational flows of support between parents and adult children in Britain, Ageing and Society, published online Nov, 2016. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X16001057.

Gomez-Leon, M. and Miret, P. (2015) Working after 50 in Spain. Is the trend for early retirement reversing?, Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, DOI: 10.1553/populationyearbook2014s115.

Gomez-Leon, M. and León, E.M. (2014) Life expectancy differential in Cuba. Are females lessening their advantages over males? in Anson, J. and Luy, M. (eds), Mortality in an International Perspective, Springer International Publishing AG: Cham, pp.265-306, ISBN: 9783319030289.

Miret, P & Gomez-Leon, M. (2012) Caída de la actividad en la población adulta: ¿Un efecto de la crisis económica o de la estructura del mercado de trabajo?, Papers de Demografia, 411.

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Research projects (most recent)

"Care, retirement and wellbeing of older people across different welfare regimes (CREW)". (2017-2019). PI: Dr. Bruno Arpino. Additional information