Cecilia García-Peñalosa is a Spanish economist and professor of economics at theAix-Marseille University.^[1] She is also associated to theInstitute for Fiscal Studies,^[2] has an affiliation with theBank of France.,^[3] and is visiting professor at the Department of Social Policy of theLondon School of Economics.^[4] She was an associate editor of theEuropean Economic Review and is currently an associate editor at theJournal of Economic Inequality.^[5] and theJournal of Economic Growth.^[6]

She holds the chair on "Gender, growth and development" at theSchool for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in France.^[7] From 2012 to 2016, she was a member of the Council of Economics Advisors who advises thePrime Minister of France.,^[8][9] and in 2025 she became the president of theSociety for the Study of Economic Inequality.^[10]

In 2009, she won the Aldi Hagenaars Memorial Award^[11] and in 2025 she was awarded the silver medal by theFrench National Centre for Scientific Research.^[12]

She obtained herD.Phil fromNuffield College, Oxford after a master's degree atCorpus Christi College, Oxford. She holds a bachelor in Economics from theUniversity of Cambridge, where she was atNew Hall College.^[13] She has held visiting positions at theFree University of Amsterdam,European University Institute in Florence,University of Washington,University of Geneva andLudwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Her research focuses oneconomic growth,income inequality andgender inequality.^[14] She has published papers in theJournal of Economic Literature,^[15] theJournal of Development Economics,^[16] theJournal of Public Economics,^[17] theJournal of Economic Growth,^[18] and theEconomic Journal.^[19]

Her research has been quoted inLe Figaro,^[20][21][22]The Economist,^[23]Le Monde,^{[24][25][26][27]}France Soir,^[28]Les Echos,^[29]TV5 Monde,^[9]France Culture,^[30]Le Monde Diplomatique,^[31]Le Point,^[32][33]La Tribune,^{[34][35][36][37]} and theHuffington Post.^[38]

She is an expert on the relationship between income inequality and economic growth, and in 1999 published a paper in theJournal of Economic Literature summarizing the main literature on the topic.^[39]

• Aghion, Philippe; Caroli, Eve; Garcia-Penalosa, Cecilia (1999). "Inequality and Economic Growth: The Perspective of the New Growth Theories". Journal of Economic Literature. 37 (4): 1615–1660.
• Eicher, Theo S.; Garcı́a-Peñalosa, Cecilia (2001-10-01). "Inequality and growth: the dual role of human capital in development". Journal of Development Economics. 66 (1): 173–197.
• Breen, R., & García Peñalosa, C. (2002). Bayesian learning and gender segregation. Journal of Labor Economics, 20(4), 899-922.
• García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Turnovsky, Stephen J. (2005-06-01). "Second-best optimal taxation of capital and labor in a developing economy". Journal of Public Economics. 89 (5): 1045–1074.
• Eicher, T., García-Peñalosa, C., & Van Ypersele, T. (2009). Education, corruption, and the distribution of income. Journal of Economic Growth, 14(3), 205-231.
• Checchi, D., & García‐Peñalosa, C. (2010). Labour market institutions and the personal distribution of income in the OECD. Economica, 77(307), 413-450.
• Bosquet, C., Combes, P. P., & García‐Peñalosa, C. (2019). Gender and promotions: Evidence from academic economists in France. The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 121(3), 1020-1053.
• Brunt, Liam, & Cecilia García-Peñalosa (2022). "Urbanisation and the onset of modern economic growth." The Economic Journal 132.642: 512-545.

• Living people
• Alumni of Nuffield College, Oxford
• Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
• Alumni of New Hall, Cambridge
• Alumni of the University of Cambridge
• Academic staff of Aix-Marseille University
• 21st-century Spanish economists
• Spanish women economists

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