Note* Middlesex University, as the majority of UK Universities, has four academic positions after obtaining the PhD: Lecturer, Senior Lecturer (also referred as Associate Professor in other UK universities), Associate Professor (also referred as Reader in other UK universities) and Professor.
Spanish (native), English (fluent) and French (intermediate)
Research Interests
Behavioural Economics, Family and Development Economics, Microeconomics, and Applied Econometrics.
PhD Supervision
I welcome the supervision of PhD students on the following topics: early marriage/childbearing, learning, schooling, social norms, aspirations/expectations. Overall, I am also happy to supervise PhD theses on behavioural economics and applied economics using randomised control trials or quasi-experimental designs.
Teaching 2017-2018
Microeconomics and Intermediate Microeconomics (Undergraduate level, ECS2001 and ECS2005)
Experimental Economics (Master level, ECS4003)
Teaching 2018-2020
Microeconomics and Intermediate Microeconomics (Undergraduate level, ECS2001 and ECS2005)
Advanced Microeconomics (ECS3001)
Development Economics (ECS3009)
Experimental Economics (Master level, ECS4003)
Teaching 2020-2021
Advanced Econometrics (ECS3003/ECS3006)
Development Economics (ECS3009)
Experimental Economics (Master level, ECS4003)
Teaching 2021-2022
Advanced Econometrics (ECS3003)
Development Economics (ECS3009)
Experimental Economics (Master level, ECS4003)
Teaching 2022-2023
Statistics and Inference (ECS1003)
Advanced Econometrics (ECS3003)
Journal articles
2022: Pablo Brañas-Garza, Riccardo Ciacci and Ericka G. Rascon-Ramirez. Anchors Matter: Eliciting Maternal Expectations on Educational Outcomes. Journal of Economic Psychology, Vol. 90, June.
2021: Branas-Garza Pablo, Lorenzo Estepa-Mohedano, Diego Jorrat, Victor Orozco and Ericka G. Rascon-Ramirez. To pay or not to pay: Measuring risk preferences in lab and field. Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 16, No. 5, September.
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.
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.
Policy 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
In progress: Rascon Ramirez, Ericka G. Randomised Control Trials in the Social Sciences. Handbook of Quantitative Methods in Sociology. Edward Elgar Research Handbooks in Sociology series, edited by Ulf Liebe (University of Warwick).
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.
Work in progress
INTERVENTIONS (EXPERIMENTAL)
The Effects of a Vocational Training Programme with Soft Skills on Sexual Behaviour with Maria Jones and Victor Orozco.
Improving enrollment and learning through videos and mobiles: Experimental evidence from Northern Nigeria with Victor Orozco
Diffusion of mobile banking among rural women: Incentivising local leaders vs. a marketing campaign with Pablo Brañas-Garza and Jaromír Kovarik
Educational Entertainment, Prospect Theory and Self-Efficacy: Increasing sexual awareness using videos among Nigerian youth with Andreas Murr and Synnove Rabbevaag
Building Democracy through Social Media Advertisements? An Online Field Experiment in Turkey with Aykut Ozturk, Steven Finkel and Anja Neundorf.
(When) Does civic education work: Evidence from a cross-national online experiment with Anja Neundorf, Aykut Ozturk and Steven Finkel.
QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL
Who benefits the most? The Effect of Networks on Research Output with Thi Phuong Anh Doan and Lorenzo Ductor
MEASUREMENT
Question-Order Effects on the Elicitation of Non-Cognitive Skills and Judgements under Uncertainty with Rafael Novella (R&R)
Beans vs. Slider: Eliciting probabilities in the field with Lorenzo Estepa, Diego Jorrat and Victor Orozco
External Funded Research (Current)
Multi-country Randomised Control Trial (Nigeria, Senegal, Bangladesh): Promoting the use of EdTech through social media platforms. Funded by the European Commision and The World Bank, 2022-2023. Ericka's Role: Principal Investigator; Co-Principal Investigators: Victor Orozco and Nandan Rao. Research team: Tinsley Galyean (Curious Learning), Stephanie Gottwald (Curious Learning), Creesen Naicker (Curious Learning), Ben Burrage (Curious Learning), Niyati Malhotra (The World Bank) and Tomas Koutecky (The World Bank). Costing upon request.
Nigeria-Clustered Randomised Control Trial: Impact Evaluation of a Social Norm Marketing Campaign to Increase Enrolment and Retention Rates and Improve Learning Outcomes in North-West Nigeria. Funded by the Nigeria Partnership for Education Project-Nigerian Government, Norwegian Trust Fund (NORAD) and the World Bank, 2017-2023. Ericka's Role: Principal Investigator. Registration: Orozco, Victor and Ericka Gabriela Rascon Ramirez. 2018. "Movies, Mobile Gaming and Digital Books: Experimental Evaluation of Entertainment Education Interventions to Change Social Norms and Improve Educational Outcomes in Northern Nigeria." Costing upon request.
ESRC Transforming Working Lives Research Grant 2022-2025: Transition to parenthood in UK SMEs. PI: Bianca Stumbitz (Middlesex U, CEEDR), Co-Is: Emma Banister, (U Manchester, Management & Marketing), Bastien Chabe-Ferret (Middlesex U, Economics), Jeremy Davies (Fatherhood Institute), Tim Freeman (Middlesex U, MLO), Simon Kelleher (Working Families), Suzan Lewis (Middesex U, Leadership), Helen Norman (Leeds U, Sociology) and Ericka Rascon-Ramirez (Middlesex U, Economics). 552,543.86 pounds.
ERC Consolidator Grant 2019-2025: Democracy under Threat: How Education can Save it (DEMED). PI: Anja Neundorf (U. Glasgow, Pol. Science), Co-Is: Natasha Marie Ezrow (U. Essex, Government), Steven Finkel (U. Pittsburgh, Pol. Science), Steven Wilson (U. Nevada, Reno, Pol. Science), Ellen Lust (U. Gothenburg, Pol. Science), Ericka Rascón-Ramírez (Middlesex U, Economics) and Franziska Meinck (U. Edinburgh, Pol. Science). 1,995,024 euros.
Internal Funded Research
Engagement event: Breaking gender-biased social norms through skill acquisition. Higher Education Innovation Fund (HIEF-Middlesex University), 2022-2023. Role: Principal Investigator.
Online Experiment: Why women perform and collaborate differently to men. Research Facilitation Funding (RFF-Middlesex University), 2019-2020. Role: Principal Investigator jointly with Lorenzo Ductor Gomez and Ismael Rodriguez- Lara (University of Granada).
Online Experiment: The use of prospect theory to raise awareness on sexually transmitted infections in young population. Research Facilitation Funding (RFF-Middlesex University), 2019-2020. Role: Principal Investigator and Co-I Synnove Rabbevaag.
Panel Survey: Life during COVID-19. Research Facilitation Funding (RFF-Middlesex University), 2020-2021. Role: Principal Investigator together with Andrej Angelovski and Simon Lodato.
Funded Research (2018-2019)
Online Experiment: Learning Democracy: Inducing Democratic Citizenship and Voter Mobilisation through Online Civic Education - An Experimental Approach. Funded by USAID, Role: Co-Principal Investigator jointly with Anja Neundorf (PI), Steven Finkel and Aaron Abbarno. Registration: Abbarno, Aaron et al. 2019. "Learning Democracy: Inducing Democratic Citizenship and Voter Mobilisation through Online Civic Education - An Experimental Approach."
Lab-in-the-Field Experiment: Elicitation of Social Norms on Education, Early Marriage and Child Labour in Northern Nigeria: Real vs Hypothetical Payments. Research Facilitation Funding (RFF-Middlesex University, 2018-19. Role: Principal Investigator jointly with Pablo Brañas-Garza (Loyola Andalucía University).
Conference and seminar 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), Economic Science Association ESA Global Online (2020), Universidad de Granada (2021), Universidad de Sevilla (2021), The World Bank, DIME (2021), Universidad de Malaga (2022).
Invited Talks:
“Skills for young people in Africa”. Media Aid Foundation, keynote speaker, to take place in October 24, 2021 (online).
"Movies and Mobile Apps: Empowering Parents to Improve Educational and Learning Outcomes". Part of a panel discussion organised by The World Bank and mEducation Alliance, September 27, 2021 (online).
“Can Online Civic Education Induce Democratic Citizenship? Experimental Evidence from a New Democracy”. USAID, August 31, 2021 (online).
“Using Randomised Control Trials (RCTs) To Make Better Choices in Companies and Organisations”. Behave4, September 24 2020, Spain and US (online).
“Behavioural Insights and Randomised Control Trials”. The World Bank and Nigerian Federal Government, September 25-27 2019, Nigeria.
“Hard Skills or Soft Talk: Unintended Consequences of a Vocational Training and an Inspiration Talk on Childbearing and Sexual Behavior in Vulnerable Youth”. University of Warwick, December 6 2019, UK.
“Malnutrition in Mexico: How heterogenous is the map?” LSE Mexico Week, March 11 2015, UK.
“Does getting pregnant cause girls to drop out of school?” Part of a panel discussion organised by the US Population Council, May 1 2015, USA.
Media coverage:
BBC Essex (UK), The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) and Barry Morgan Show (Canada), El Pais (Spain)
Consultancy work:
Start Network (UK), The World Bank (USA), Inter-American Bank (USA), Videnza Consultores (Peru), National Instutitute of Public Health (Mexico), SIMO (Mexico).
Training/Collaboration with government agencies:
Botswana, Cape Verde, Colombia, Hungary, Israel, Mexico, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia.
Peer-reviewing/Referreing
ESRC grants
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation (JEBO), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Plos ONE, Political Science Research and Methods, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Nature, Scientific Reports.
