Salas Rojo, Pedro

Economics

PhD: Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Office A4-17.3

Biography

Pedro Salas-Rojo is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at CUNEF Universidad. Before joining CUNEF, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the London School of Economics and as an advisor at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. He has held visiting positions at the University of Florence and the Luxembourg Income Study. His research, situated at the intersection of inequality of opportunity, intergenerational mobility, and wealth inequality, combines machine learning tools and economic theory. His work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Economic Inequality, Economics Letters, SERIEs, and Social Indicators Research.

Most relevant publications

Salas-Rojo, P., Jordà, V., & Brunori, P. (2025). Polarization of opportunities. Economics Letters, 253, Art. 112386.

Palencia-Esteban, A., & Salas-Rojo, P. (2023). Personal wellbeing and intergenerational mobility in Spain. Research on Economic Inequality, 30, 109-137.

Salas-Rojo, P., & Rodríguez, J. G. (2022). Inheritances and wealth inequality: A machine learning approach. Journal of Economic Inequality, 20, 27-51.

Cabrera, L., Marrero, G., Rodríguez, J. G., & Salas-Rojo, P. (2021). Inequality of opportunity in Spain: New insights from new data. Review of Public Economics, 237, 153-185.

Salas-Rojo, P., & Rodríguez, J. G. (2021). The distribution of wealth in Spain and the USA: The role of socioeconomic factors. SERIEs, 12, 389-421.

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