Pau Balart received his PhD in Economics from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Business Economics at Universitat de les Illes Balears. Previously he did a postdoc in the Economics department at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. His main fields of research are Applied Micoreconomic Theory and Education Economics. His works have been published in international academic journals as well as in book chapters. He has presented his research in several national and international conferences.

Selected publications:

Balart, P., Casas, A., & Troumpounis, O. (2022). Technological change, campaign spending and polarization. Journal of Public Economics, 211, 104666

Balart, Pau. 'Semiorder preferences and price-oriented buyers in a Hotelling model.' Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 188 (2021): 394-407

Balart, Pau, Lara Ezquerra, and Iñigo Hernandez-Arenaz. 'Framing effects on risk-taking behavior: evidence from a field experiment in multiple-choice tests.' Experimental Economics 25.4 (2022): 1268-1297

Balart, P., & Oosterveen, M. (2019). Females show more sustained performance during test-taking than males. Nature communications, 10(1), 3798.

Balart, P., Oosterveen, M., & Webbink, D. (2018). Test scores, noncognitive skills and economic growth. Economics of Education Review, 63, 134-153

Balart, Pau, Sabine Flamand, and Orestis Troumpounis. 'Strategic choice of sharing rules in collective contests.' Social Choice and Welfare 46 (2016): 239-262

Anghel, B., & Balart, P. (2017). Non-cognitive skills and individual earnings: new evidence from PIAAC. SERIEs, 8(4), 417-473

Balart, P., Chowdhury, S. M., & Troumpounis, O. (2017). Linking individual and collective contests through noise level and sharing rules. Economics Letters, 155, 126-130.

Balart, P. (2016). The increase in college premium and the decline in low‐skill wages: A signaling story. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 18(3), 363-384