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Dr. Pablo Gracia is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin. He obtained a PhD in Sociology at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, while receiving parallel doctoral education and training at the University of Oxford. Dr. Gracia has previously been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies from the University of Amsterdam and Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He has been a visiting researcher or guest lecturer at leading institutions in his research fields, including the University of Oxford, New York University, University College London (Institute of Education), University of Antwerp (Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy), National Institute for Demographic Studies in Paris (INED), and the Centre for Demographic Studies in Barcelona (CED-UAB). As a lecturer and researcher, Dr. Gracia's main areas of academic interest include Family Sociology, Social Stratification, Social Demography, Cross-National Research, and Research Design. Dr Gracia has recently received the Provost PhD Project Award (2017), Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund (2018) and Enterprise Ireland Project Grant (2018) to support his research on intergenerational inequalities and child development. His main ongoing projects (including grants and international collaborations) focus on three areas: (1) Socioeconomic inequalities in parenting and child development; (2) Child and adolescent daily activities (i.e., digital activities, educational time, family activities) across different micro-macro contexts; (3) Impacts of the 24/7 economy on family life and child well-being. Dr. Gracia's research has been published at the European Sociological Review, Journal of Marriage of Family, Demographic Research, Social Science Research and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, among other international peer-reviewed journals.

Research Tags

ADOLESCENCE CHILDREN CROSS-NATIONAL ANALYSIS EDUCATION ETHNICITY FAMILY GENDER Life Course PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS PARENTING Quantitative Research social demography Social Inequality Social Policy Social Stratification/Mobility Work-family interface

Research Projects

Project Title

CHILDTIMES - Inequalities in Children's Activities and Development: A Multi-Method, Longitudinal and Cross-Country Approach

From

2018

2019

Summary

Contemporary society presents a strong persistence of social inequalities across generations. The reproduction of such inequalities is not only problematic to equalising children's opportunities. This reality also imposes serious barriers to the possibility of every child being able to fully contribute to our society and economy by adding his/her intrinsic human capital potential. The project establishes links between two main disciplines that often operate independently, namely the psychological literature on child development and the life-course social stratification literature. The funding from Enterprise Ireland will be used to exchange knowledge and innovative research ideas with international researchers, as well as developing a research pilot (together with a research assistant) to better understand the reproduction of social inequalities by studying children's daily activities in our digitalised societies, combining observational and experimental approaches.

Funding Agency

Enterprise Ireland

Project Title

Social Inequalities, Time Use and Child Development in Ireland: A Longitudinal Approach

From

2018

2022

Summary

Children's family background is a determinant predictor of individuals' key life-course outcomes, such as schooling attainment, labour market trajectories, health status and income dynamics. Recent multi-disciplinary developments in the social sciences suggest a set of reasons why children from privileged social backgrounds are advantaged throughout the life course. This project seeks to contribute to the international literature on social inequalities and child development by studying children's daily activities and experiences from a longitudinal perspective. The project will adopt a life-course approach, using rich cohort longitudinal data, focusing on Ireland and related countries, to analyse intergenerational inequalities from infancy to late adolescence.

Funding Agency

Provost PhD Award Competition

Project Title

Social Inequalities in Girls' and Boys' Daily Activities and Skills Accumulation in Ireland and Australia

From

2018

2020

Summary

This project, coordinated by Dr. Pablo Gracia, will investigate how boys and girls from different SES achieve key developmental competences from infancy (age 0) to adolescence (age 17), analysing the role of their daily activities in explaining inequalities in skills development. Previous studies reveal that children's family background is a critical indicator of future life chances. Privileged children disproportionately obtain the highest levels of education, occupational status and health outcomes across the life course (Morgan, 2006). This raises strong policy concerns from an equality of opportunity and human capital perspective (Putnam, 2015). Yet, the exact mechanisms by which boys and girls from different SES (socioeconomic status) achieve different cognitive and socio-emotional skills remain insufficiently understood. This project will contribute to these empirical debates by using the best available data from Australia and Ireland to study this empirical question in two countries that combine an interesting mixture of liberal welfare regimes with traditional work-family policies (OECD, 2016).

Funding Agency

Trinity College Dublin

Programme

Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund 2017-18

Project Title

Parental Conditions, Family Relations, and Work: Implications for Families and Children.

From

2015

2017

Summary

This research project, based on a prize received by Dr. Pablo Gracia, fully funded by the EUI Max Weber Programme, aimed at providing new and more precise understandings of how time and resources are allocated from parents and children across different demographic groups in contemporary post-industrial societies. The project was related to three main empirical outputs: (1) Empirical evidence was published on how fathers and mothers allocated time to child care activities and how this can be related to gendered inequalities in parents' wellbeing, levels of enjoyment and stress; (2) Cross-national evidence on gendered and educational inequalities in parenting was provided using international time-diary data; (3) Evidence on ethnic penalties and differentials in students' aspirations and future employment outcomes were provided using survey data from the Dutch and Spanish contexts. Finally, the project resulted into different publications in international peer-reviewed journals.

Funding Agency

European University Institute

Programme

Max Weber Programme

Project Title

Family Conditions and Child Outcomes

From

2013

2014

Summary

This project, coordinated by Dr. Pablo Gracia, was funded as part of the ECSR Project Workshop Grants, in order to bring together a range of junior and more senior scholars to establish networks of collaboration and discussion around the topic of child outcomes. The main project's task consisted of a workshop organised at the University of Amsterdam in which junior and senior scholars from leading European research institutions presented their studies on how families influence child outcomes. This scientific exchange provided some new insights to better understand how child outcomes (defined as skills, behaviours, and qualifications) are affected by family contexts, including socioeconomic, demographic, and ethnic origins.   Main Partners of the Project's Network: University of Amsterdam (host), WZB, Goethe University Frankfurt, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, University of Oxford.

Funding Agency

European Consortium for Sociological Research

Programme

7th FP European Commission Programme

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Languages

Language	Skill Reading	Skill Writing	Skill Speaking
Catalan	Fluent	Fluent	Fluent
Dutch	Basic	Basic	Basic
English	Fluent	Fluent	Fluent
Italian	Fluent	Fluent	Fluent
Spanish	Fluent	Fluent	Fluent

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details	Date From	Date To
American Sociological Association	2010	2012
Dutch/Flemish Association of Sociology	2013	2014
EqualSoc Network of Excellence	2008	2012
European Association of Population	2016	to date
European Consortium for Sociological Research	2012	to date
Global Research Network on Children in the 24/7 Economy (GRNCE)	2017	to date
International Association for Time Use Research	2010	to date
Max Weber Fellows Programme, European University Institute	2015	2017
Population Association of America	2013	to date
RC28 on Social Stratification and Mobility (ISA)	2010	to date
Spanish Sociological Association	2013	2014
Trinity Research in Childhood Centre (TRiCC)	2018	to date

Publications and other Research Outputs

Children's Time Use: Past, Present and Future in, editor(s)Cook, D. , The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies, Sage, 2018, [Gracia, P.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

Gracia, P. & Garcia-Román, J., Child and Adolescent Developmental Activities and Time Use in Spain: The Gendered Role of Parents' Work Schedules and Education Levels, European Sociological Review, 5, (1), 2018, p518 - 538, Notes: [doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcy023], Journal Article, PUBLISHED

Gil-Hernandez, C. & Gracia, P., Adolescents' Educational Aspirations and Ethnic Background: The Case of Students of African and Latin American Migrant Origin in Spain, Demographic Research, 2, 2018, p1 - 32, Journal Article, PUBLISHED

Gracia, P., Ghysels, J., Educational inequalities in parental care time: Cross-national evidence from Belgium, Denmark, Spain, and the United Kingdom, Social Science Research, 63, 2017, p166-180 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED

Gracia, P. & Gil-Hernandez, C., Adolescents' educational aspirations and ethnicity: evidence on children of African and Latin American migrants in Spain. EUI Working Paper Series. MWP/15., 2017, Working Paper, PUBLISHED

Gracia, P. & Garcia-Roman, J, Parents' Nonstandard Work Hours and Children's Time Use in Spain: The Intersection of Parental Work Schedules, Gender, and Education.SSRN Working Paper, 2924016. , 2017, Working Paper, PUBLISHED

Roeters, A., Gracia, P., Child Care Time, Parents" Well-Being, and Gender: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey, Journal of Child and Family Studies, 25, (8), 2016, p2469-2479 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED

Gracia, P., Vázquez-Quesada, L., Van de Werfhorst, H.G., Ethnic penalties? The role of human capital and social origins in labour market outcomes of second-generation Moroccans and Turks in the Netherlands, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 42, (1), 2016, p69-87 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED

Gracia, P., Kalmijn, M., Parents' Family Time and Work Schedules: The Split-Shift Schedule in Spain, Journal of Marriage and Family, 78, (2), 2016, p401-415 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED

Gracia, P., Social Stratification and Parental Care: An Analysis of the Spanish Case, La Caixa Obra Social Foundation, 2016, Report, PUBLISHED

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Gracia, P., Does the Spanish work schedule hurt family life, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, München, Population Europe, 2016, Report, PUBLISHED

Gracia, P., Educational inequalities in parents' time with children. , UK-based blog., Inequalities: Research and reflection from both sides of the Atlantic , 2013, Report, PUBLISHED

Awards and Honours

Award	Date
Visiting Researcher. Pompeu Fabra University	2018
Visiting Researcher. New York University	2018
Enterprise Ireland Project Grant. Enterprise Ireland/IRC.	2018
Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund. Trinity College Dublin	2018
Provost Award Competition (for PhD Project Supervision). Trinity College Dublin	2017
Visiting Researcher & Lecturer. University College London, Institute of Education	2017
Visiting Researcher. Institut National d'Études Démographiques	2017
Max Weber Fellowship Prize. European University Institute	2015
Visiting Researcher. Autonomous University of Barcelona, Centre for Demographic Studies	2015
Visiting Researcher. University of Antwerp, Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy	2014
ECSR Project Grant. European Consortium for Sociological Research	2014
Aage Sorensen Travel Award. Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility (ISA)	2011
Visiting PhD Researcher. University of Oxford	2010/12
Fundacion Alternativas Youth Prize. Alternativas Foundation.	2009
FPU Doctoral Project Scholarship. Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation	2008

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

Dr. Pablo Gracia's main research areas include family, social stratification, social demography and cross-national research. His main ongoing projects (including grants and international collaborations) focus on three main areas: (1) Socioeconomic inequalities in parenting and child development; (2) Child and adolescent daily activities (i.e., digital activities, educational time, family activities) across different micro-macro contexts; (3) Impacts of the 24/7 economy on family life and child well-being.

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Dr. Pablo Gracia

Assistant Professor (Sociology)

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Biography

Research Tags

Research Projects

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Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Publications and other Research Outputs

Publications

Awards and Honours

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests