Elena Barcenas is a Professor at the Department of Applied Economics at the Universidad de Málaga (Spain). She obtained her PhD at the Applied Economics Department at the Universidad de Málaga in 2001. Previously, she was graduated from a MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics at the London School of Economics and hold a BSc in Economics at Universidad de Málaga.
Prof. Barcenas is a member of the research groups EQUALITAS and Public Economics and Equity (SEJ-559), as well as the treasurer of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ), associate editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality and Review of Public Economics and Book Review Editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality. Most of her research focuses on the Economics of Inequality, Deprivation and Poverty, Income Mobility and Poverty Dynamics, Economics of gender and children, Public Policies and Social Welfare, and Applied Microeconometrics.