Sara Ayllón is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Girona (UdG) in Spain.

Before joining UdG, she spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Economics at University Pompeu Fabra. She obtained her PhD at the Applied Economics Department at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Previously, she graduated from a MSc in European Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science and she holds a BSc in Economics and another one in Journalism at UAB. Most of her research focuses on the Economics of Poverty and Inequality, Labour Economics, Economics of the Family, Health Economics and Applied Microeconometrics.

Sara Ayllón joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 2021.