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Elisenda Rentería Pérez

ORCID 0000-0002-7072-8465 Assistant Director

Educational qualifications: Ph.D in Demography (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerias)
Research Theme/s: Education and work, Health Inequalities, Ageing and Society, Health, Mortality and Causes of Death, Elderly Care, Gender and Inequality, Time use

Elisenda Rentería is an economist by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and holds a PhD in Demography by the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) from Brazil. Currently, she is working at the Centre d´Estudis Demogràfics (CED) as a Ramón y Cajal research fellow. She has worked as postdoc researcher at the Department of Economic Theory at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon (France). During her PhD she also worked as a Population Affairs Officer at the Population Division of the United Nations (2009). Her research interests are diverse and range from the study of aging and intergenerational transfers, looking at economic and care exchanges, as well as the study of socioeconomic differentials in adult mortality and health, with a special look to demographic methods.