HHB welcomes Sergio Espuelas - lecturer at the Economic History department of the University of Barcelona, Spain - as a HHB Researcher.

He has been a lecturer at the University of Valladolid, and a visiting scholar at the University of California, Davis and the University of Kent. His research interests are the determinants of redistribution, the history of the welfare state, and the economic history of education.

He obtained his PhD at the University of Barcelona, in 2011, with a dissertation titled “Inequality, democracy and the welfare state: A comparative analyses of the determinants of social spending in Spain, 1850-2005”. His research has been published in the Economic History Review, in the European Review of Economic History, and in the Revista de Historia Económica – Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, among others.