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      Dr Ericka Rascon Ramirez

      MSc, PhD in Economics
      ROLE: Lecturer in Development Economics
      SCHOOL: Business School
      DEPARTMENT: Economics
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 5815
      EMAIL: E.Ramirez@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        I joined the Department of Economics at Middlesex University in January 2015. I studied the PhD in Economics at University of Essex and the MSc in Economics at University College London. I have also worked for the World Bank Group in Washington DC and for the Ministry of Social Development in Mexico.
         
        I am interested in the fields of Behavioural, Family and Development Economics where I use statistical and econometric methods to answer policy relevant questions on child development and adolescent behaviour. I have experience with observational studies, randomised control trials and a couple of lab experiments. My teaching experience is primarily in Microeconomics, Development Economics, Econometrics and Experimental Economics.
         
        My research focuses on how parents influence child development and adolescent behaviour (schooling, learning and sexual outcomes), as well as how interventions could use behavioural insights to be more effective on the promotion of healthy habits and dissemination of information to facilitate labour market and school-related choices.
         
        My most recent research project in the field is an extension of my doctoral work on subjective expectations and aspirations to increase schooling enrolment and learning outcomes in rural communities in Nigeria. If you want to know more about this project, click on the page “Current field experiments”.
         
        I am also working with political scientists to design interventions to promote democratic behaviour, as well as with government agencies and international organisations to promote mobile learning and mobile banking.
         
        My experience on design and evaluation of social interventions has been primarily focused on Latin America and Africa. See further details in my CV (personal website).
         

        Personal website

        Department of Economics website

        MSc in Behavioural Economics in Action website

        Current projects in the field


        Languages Spoken

        Spanish (native), English (fluent) and French (intermediate)

      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        Research Interests

        Behavioural Economics, Family and Development Economics, Microeconomics, and Applied Econometrics.

        Teaching 2017-2018

        Microeconomics and Intermediate Microeconomics (Undergraduate level, ECS2001 and ECS2005)

        Experimental Economics (Master level, ECS4003)

        Teaching 2018-2019

        Microeconomics and Intermediate Microeconomics (Undergraduate level, ECS2001 and ECS2005)

        Advanced Microeconomics (ECS3001)

        Development Economics (ECS3009)

        Experimental Economics (Master level, ECS4003)

         

        Teaching 2019-2020

        Microeconomics and Intermediate Microeconomics (Undergraduate level, ECS2001 and ECS2005)

        Advanced Econometrics (ECS3003/ECS3006)

        Development Economics (ECS3009)

        Experimental Economics (Master level, ECS4003)

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        Journal articles

        2018: Branas-Garza Pablo, Capraro Valerio and Ericka G. Rascon Ramirez. Gender differences in altruism on Mechanical Turk: Expectations and Actual Behaviour. Economics Letters, Vol. 170, September, 19-23. Online access since May 2018.

        2018: Leiter, Debra, Andreas Murr, Ericka G. Rascon Ramirez and Mary Stegmaier. Social Networks and Citizen Election Forecasting: The More Friends the Better. International Journal of Forecasting, Vol. 34, Issue 2, 235-248.

        2008: Lopez-Calva, Luis F., Alvaro Melendez, Ericka G. Rascon Ramirez, Lourdes Rodriguez and Miguel Szekely. El Ingreso de los Hogares en el Mapa de Mexico. [Household Income in the Map of Mexico]. El Trimestre Economico, Vol. LXXV num.4. ISBN: 0041-3011.

        2007: Lopez-Calva, Luis F., Alvaro Melendez, Ericka G. Rascon Ramirez, Lourdes Rodriguez and Miguel Szekely. Poniendo al Ingreso de los Hogares en el Mapa de Mexico. [Putting Household Income in the Map of Mexico]. Economia Mexicana, Vol. XVI, num. 2. ISBN: 1665-2045.

        2005: Szekely, Miguel and Ericka G. Rascon Ramirez. Mexico 2000-2002: Reduccion de la pobreza con estabilidad y expansion de programas sociales. [Mexico 2000-2002: Poverty Reduction with Stabilisation and Social Programme Expansion]. Economia Mexicana, Vol. XIV num.2. ISBN: 0185-0458. Re-printed in Numbers moving the world. Principal editor: Miguel Szekely. Porrua. ISBN: 970-701-672-8.

        Reports

        De la Fuente Alejandro, Andreas Murr and Ericka Rascon-Ramirez,Mapping Subnational Poverty in Zambia, Number 95276, The World Bank Group, March 2015.

        Lanjouw Peter and Ericka Rascon-Ramirez. Dynamics of Rural Poverty at the Local Level in Latin America. Comments on Interim Studies of Poverty Dynamics in 10 Countries based on Small Area Estimation. RIMISP, 2009.

        Rascon-Ramirez Ericka and Luis Rubalcava.Dinámica y caracterización de la pobreza urbana en México.  (Dynamics and characterization of Urban Poverty in Mexico). Spectron, 2009.

        Book chapters

        2011: Lanjouw, Peter and Ericka G. Rascon Ramirez. Urban Growth and Poverty in Towns of Different Sizes. Perspectives on Poverty in India. Stylized Facts from Survey Data. Principal co-editors: Peter Lanjouw and Rinku Murgai. The World Bank. ISBN: 978-0-8213-8689-7.

      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

        Presentations:

        Royal Holloway University (2011), Office of National Statistics (2012), European Economic Association EEA (2012), 16th IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics (2013), European Association of Labour Economists EALE (2013), European Economic Association EEA (2013), Royal Economic Society Postgraduate Conference RES (2014), Workshop on Subjective Expectations and Probabilities in Economics and Psychology (2014), European Society for Population Economics ESPE (2014), LSE-Mexico's Week (2015), Royal Economic Society (2015), Population Association of America PAA (2015), Fourth SOLE/EALE World Meetings (2015), Economic Development in Africa CSAE-Oxford (2016), European Political Science Association EPSA (2016), Center for Effective Global Action CEGA-Berkeley (2016), Middlesex University (2017), Royal Economics Society (2019).

      • Engagement &
        Impact

         

        Media coverage:

        BBC Essex (UK), The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) and Barry Morgan Show  (Canada), El Pais (Spain)

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