BeSS
Directors
Javier Polavieja (Oxford University Ph.D. in Sociology, 2001) is Research Professor at the Institute for Public Goods & Policies, Spanish National Research Council (IPP-CSIC). He founded and directed the Discrimination & Inequality Lab in 2018 at Carlos III University of Madrid. In 2023 he moved the D-Lab to his new home institution, the IPP-CSIC. and since 2026 he co-directs the D-Lab with Dr Tarek Jaber-López (see below). Polavieja's main fields of research are social stratification, economic sociology and discrimination research. His work has been published in leading international journals including, amongst others, the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, European Sociological Review, Socio-Economic Review, Social Forces, International Migration Review, Labour Economics, Political Behavior, Electoral Studies, Social Indicators Research and International Migration. In 2015, he was elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology.
Tarek Jaber-Lopez (PhD in Economics, Universitat Jaume I, 2015) is Research Fellow of the Institute of Public Goods & Policies, Spanish National Research Council (IPP-CSIC) and co-Director of the Discrimination & Inequality Lab (D-Lab). Formerly, he was Director of LEED (Laboratoire Economie Experimentale de la Defense). His research lies around Behavioral and Experimental Economics, with specific interests encompassing social and antisocial behavior, corruption and (dis)honesty, gender and competition, among other related areas. His work has been published in international journals including, amongst others, Experimental Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, etc.