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.
Elisenda Rentería Pérez
ORCID 0000-0002-7072-8465 Adjunta a la Direcció
Titulació: Doctora en Demografia (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerias)
Línia/es de recerca:
Determinants Socials de la Salut, Envelliment i Societat, Educació i Treball, Desigualtats en Salut, Envelliment i Benestar, Salut, Mortalitat i Causes de Mort, Cura de la Gent Gran, Gènere i Desigualtat, Usos del Temps
Calderon-Jaramillo, Mariana, Elisenda Renteria, i Jeroen Spijker. 2025. «From Curing to Caring: Exploring Social Care Needs after the Onset of Chronic Conditions among European Older Adults (50+)». Innovation in Aging 9(9):igaf085. doi:10.1093/geroni/igaf085. Web of Science ID: WOS:001590412100001.
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Calderón-Jaramillo, Mariana, Elisenda Rentería, i Jeroen Spijker. 2025. «From Curing to Caring: Exploring Social Care Needs after the Onset of Chronic Conditions among European Older Adults (50+)». Innovation in Aging igaf085. doi:10.1093/geroni/igaf085
I.F.: SJR_2024_Q1_Health (social science)_1.033 [online]
Abio, Gemma, Ció Patxot, Elisenda Rentería, Guadalupe Souto, i Tanja Istenič. 2025. «Lifecycle Analysis of the Gender Gap in Paid and Unpaid Work by Household Structure». The Journal of the Economics of Ageing 100597. doi:10.1016/j.jeoa.2025.100597.
Spijker, Jeroen J. A., Júlia Almeida Calazans, Sergi Trias-Llimós, Elisenda Renteria, i Gabriele Doblhammer. 2025. «Educational Inequalities in Dementia-Related Mortality Using a Multiple Cause of Death Approach and Their Contribution to Life Expectancy Differences in Spain». Scientific Reports 15(1):26838. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-10079-x. Scientific Reports.
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Lozano, Mariona, Elisenda Rentería, Jeroen Spijker, Maike Van Damme, Giorgio Di Gessa, Rebecca Lacey, Baowen Xue, i Anne McMunn. 2025. «Setting the scene: cross-sectional country comparisons of associations between young adult care and education, employment, and health outcomes in Europe». International Journal of Adolescence and Youth 30(1):2467098. doi: 10.1080/02673843.2025.2467098.
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Abió, Gemma, Ció Patxot, Elisenda Rentería, Guadalupe Souto, i Tanja Istenič. 2024. «The gender gap in paid and unpaid work along the life cycle: The role of household arrangements». Universitat de Barcelona. School of Economics. Working Papers.
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Bramajo, Octavio, Pilar Zueras, Elisenda Rentería, i Iñaki Permanyer. 2024. «Decomposition of Life Expectancy Differentials with (and without) Conditions by Educational Attainment for Major Groups of Causes in Contemporary Spain: Where Is the Advantage?» Genus 80(1):11. doi: 10.1186/s41118-024-00220-5.
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Trias-Llimós, Sergi, Elisenda Rentería, Roberta Rutigliano, Ajay Aggarwal, Jennifer Moodley, Karla Unger-Saldaña, i Isabelle Soerjomataram. 2024. «Deciphering the Sex gap in global life expectancy: the impact of female-specific cancers 1990–2019». JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute djae191. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djae191.
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Rentería, Elisenda, Guadalupe Souto, Tanja Istenič, i Jože Sambt. 2024. «Generational economic dependency in aging Europe: Contribution of education and population changes». The Journal of the Economics of Ageing 27:100485. doi: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2023.100485.
I.F.: SJR_2024_Q2_Economics and Econometrics_0.768 [online]
Rentería, Elisenda, Mariona Lozano, i Jeroen Spijker. 2023. «The consequences of caring on health during early adulthood in Spain». Journal of Youth Studies 0(0):1-17. doi: 10.1080/13676261.2023.2280850.
Spijker, Jeroen J. A., i Elisenda Rentería. 2023. «Shifts in Chronic Disease Patterns Among Spanish Older Adults With Multimorbidity Between 2006 and 2017». International Journal of Public Health 68:1606259. doi: 10.3389/ijph.2023.1606259.
Rentería, Elisenda, Amalia Gómez-Casillas, i Pilar Zueras. 2023. «Who Wears the Face Mask? Preventive Measures Against COVID-19 in Latin America Before Vaccination». Public Health S0033350623001178. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2023.04.002. [online]
SOLÉ-AURÓ, Aïda; ZUERAS, Pilar; RENTERÍA, Elisenda; LOZANO, Mariona (2022) “Gender gap in unhealthy life expectancy: The role of education among adults aged 45+”. International Journal of Public Health, 67 (1604946): 1-8 (online: 24 August 2022 / ISSN: 1661-8556). DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2022.1604946 I.F.: JCR (SSCI)_2021_Q1_Public, Environmental & Occupational Health, i.i. 5.1<br /> SJR_2021_Q1_ Health (social science), i.i. 1.05 [online]
RENTERÍA; Elisenda; ZUERAS, Pilar (2022). “Macro-level factors explaining inequalities in expected years lived free of and with chronic conditions across Spanish regions and over time (2006–2019)”. SSM - Population Health, 19 (101152): 1-10 (ISSN: 2352-8273). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101152 I.F.: JCR (SSCI)_Q2_ Public, Environmental & Occupational Health, i.i. 1.11<br /> SJR_2021_Q1_Health (Social Science), i.i. 1.25 [online]
ABIO, Gemma; PATXOT, Concepció; RENTERÍA, Elisenda; SOLÉ, Meritxell; SOUTO, Guadalupe (2021) “La equidad entre generaciones como garantía del bienestar social”. Dossier (Monográfico: Estado del bienestar, ciclo vital y demografía), 10: 18-24. Observatori Social, Fundació “la Caixa”.
GÓMEZ-CASILLAS, Amalia; LOZANO, Mariona; RENTERÍA, Elisenda (2021) “Expected years lived with intimate partner violence: a new approach for public health”. Global Health Action, 14 (1): 1-7 (ISSN: 1654-9716). https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2021.1976442 I.F.: <br /> JCR (SSCI)_2020_Q2_Public, Environmental & Occupational Health, i.i. 2.662<br /> SJR_2020_Q1_Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, i.i. 1.331 [online]
ZUERAS, Pilar; RENTERÍA, Elisenda (2020) “Trends in disease-free life expectancy at age 65 in Spain: Diverging patterns by sex, region and disease”. PloS One, 15 (11), e0240923: 1-15 (ISSN: 1932-6203). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240923 I.F.: JCR_2019_Q2_Multidisciplinary Sciences, i.i. 2.740<br /> SJR_2019_Q1_Multidisciplinary, i.i. 1.023 [online]
LOZANO, Mariona; RENTERÍA, Elisenda; GÓMEZ-CASILLAS, Amalia (2020) “Quan l’estabilitat sembla una utopia”. Dossier Barcelona Metrópolis (“La bretxa generacional”), 114: 12-17. I.F.: 2018 / [online]
SOLÉ, Meritxell; SOUTO, Guadalupe; RENTERÍA, Elisenda; PAPADOMICHELAKIS, Giorgios; PATXOT, Concepció (2020) “Protecting the elderly and children in times of crisis: An analysis based on National Transfer Accounts”. The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 15: 1-11 (2212-828X). I.F.: JCR_2018_ Q2_Demography, i.i. 1.750<br /> SJR_2018_Q2_Economics and Econometrics, i.i. 0.739 [online]
ABIO, Gemma; PATXOT, Concepció; RENTERÍA, Elisenda; SOLÉ, Meritxell; SOUTO, Guadalupe (2019) “Las cuentas nacionales de transferencias. Aplicaciones y resultados para España”. Papeles de economía española (“Presente y futuro de la seguridad social”), 161: 114-137 (ISSN: 0210-9107). I.F.: Carhus Plus + 2018_Economia_D [online]
LOZANO, Mariona; RENTERÍA, Elisenda (2019). “Work in transition: Labour market life expectancy and years spent in precarious employment in Spain 1986-2016”. Social Indicators Research (First online 27 February 2019): 1-16 (ISSN: 0303-8300). I.F.: JCR_2017_Q2_Sociology, i.i. 1.648<br /> SJR_2017_Q1_Sociology and Political Science, i.i. 0.771 [online]
LOZANO, Mariona; RENTERÍA, Elisenda; VIDAL, Elena; ZUERAS, Pilar (2018) “Demografia. Situació actual i escenaris de futur”. Nota d’Economia (Potencialitats de l'economia catalana), 104: 91-105 (ISSN: 2013-8709).
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ESTEVE, Albert; DEVOLDER, Daniel; RENTERÍA, Elisenda; BLANES, Amand (2018) “La sostenibilidad demográfica del sistema de pensiones en España”. Panorama Social, 28: 161-172 (ISSN: 1699-6852). [online]
PERMANYER, Iñaki; SPIJKER, Jeroen; BLANES, Elisenda; RENTERÍA, Elisenda (2018). “Longevity and lifespan variation by educational attainment in Spain: 1960-2015”. Demography, 55 (6): 2045–2070 (ISSN: 0070-3370). I.F.: JCR_2017_Q1_Demography, i.i. 2.572<br /> SJR_2017_ Q1_Demography, i.i. 2.345 [online]
ABÍO, Gemma; PATXOT, Concepció; RENTERÍA, Elisenda; SOUTO, Guadalupe (2017) “Intergenerational Tranfers in Spain: The role of education”. Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, 223 (4): 101-130 (ISSN: 0210-1173). I.F.: JCR_2016_Q4_Economics, i.i. 0.333<br /> SJR_2016_Q3_Finance; Q4_Economics and Econometrics, i.i. 0,196<br /> [online]
RENTERÍA, Elisenda; SCANDURRA, Rosario; SOUTO, Guadalupe; PATXOT, Concepció (2017) “Mujeres y hombres, consumo y producción a lo largo de la vida. Una relación desigual”. Observatorio Social de “la Caixa” (publicación digital). [online]
RENTERÍA, Elisenda; SOUTO, Guadalupe; MEJÍA-GUEVARA, Iván; PATXOT, Concepció (2016). “The effect of education on the demographic dividend”. Population and Development Review, 42 (4): 651-671 (ISSN: 0098-7921). [online] | [PDF]
RENTERÍA, Elisenda; SOUTO, Guadalupe; MEJÍA-GUEVARA, Iván; PATXOT, Concepció (2016). “The impact of education on the demographic dividend”. Agenta. Ageing Europe-An Application of National Transfer Accounts for Explaining and projecting trends in Public Finances, Working Paper 3/2016, 37 pp. [online]
RENTERÍA, Elisenda; SCANDURRA, Rosario; SOUTO, Guadalupe; PATXOT, Concepció (2016) “Intergenerational money and time transfers by gender in Spain: Who are the actual dependents?”. Demographic Research, 34 (24): 689-704 (published 19 april 2016) (DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2016.34.24). [online] | [PDF]
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