Laura Mayoral is a tenured researcher at the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC), a research affiliate at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), and a Research Fellow of CEPR. Her research spans political economy, economic development, machine learning, and econometrics, with applications to inequality, mobility, institutional change and conflict. She combines theory, empirical analysis, and modern statistical learning to study how policies and shocks shape societal outcomes across countries and groups. Her work has been published in leading academic journals such as American Economic Review, Econometrica, Science, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, the International Economic Journal, the Journal of Monetary Economics.