Maria Rubio-Cabañez is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) and the Sociology Department of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) within the ERC project DIGINEQ. She holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the Carlos III University of Madrid. Her research focuses primarily on the impact of environmental factors, such as outdoor spaces and air pollution, on children’s development. She is particularly interested in how these environmental influences vary as a function of children’s socioeconomic status, which is shaped in part by spatial organization. In essence, her work seeks to understand how disparities in environmental exposures contribute to divergent developmental outcomes among children from different SES backgrounds
Maria Rubio-Cabañez
ORCID 0009-0000-1359-7254 Investigadora col·laboradora amb el CED
Titulació: Doctora en Ciències Socials (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Línia/es de recerca:
Famílies, Benestar i Desigualtats
Rubio-Cabañez, Maria, Pablo Gracia, i Roger Fernandez-Urbano. 2026. «Our study looked at teens’ social media behaviour in 43 countries – those from disadvantaged backgrounds face greater harms». The Conversation, abril 30.
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Rubio-Cabanez, Maria, i Jonas Radl. 2026. «Polluting Student Test Performance: School-Based Evidence on the Adverse Effects of Air Pollution». Social Science Research 136:103343. doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2026.103343.
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Gracia, Pablo, Roger Fernandez-Urbano, Maria Rubio-Cabañez, Seyma Celik, i Beyda Cineli. 2026. «Problematic Social Media Use and Adolescent Wellbeing: The Role of Family Socioeconomic Status across 43 Countries». dins World Happiness Report. University of Oxford.
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Rubio-Cabanez, Maria, i Josep Serrano-Serrat. 2025. «Shouldering Childhood: Early Behavioural Traits and Discrimination Concerns». European Sociological Review.