Dr Alfonso Miranda

  • Qualifications and position:
    • BSc Economics (Hons), MA, MSc, PhD.
    • Lecturer in Social Statistics
    • Research fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Germany.
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Policy and Society
  • Department:
    • Department of Quantitative Social Science
  • Centre:
    • ADMIN Node (Administrative Data - Methods, Inference and Networks)
  • Summary:
    • I am a Lecturer in Social Statistics and member of the ADMIN node at the Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of Education, University of London. Before joining the IOE I was a Lecturer in Economics at Keele University, UK. I obtained the BSc in Economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a MA in Economics at the Centre for Teaching and Research in Economics (CIDE), Mexico. Then I undertook MSc and PhD studies in Economics at the University of Warwick (UK). My research interests include the development of methods for the estimation of nonlinear econometric models for cross-section and panel data and its applications to demographic, education, and health economics. Over the years, my research has mainly focused on the development of strategies to deal with problems of sample selection, endogenous treatment, and endogenous participation for ordinal, count, and binary variables. I have also interest in dynamic models, quantile regression, and hazard models.
  • Teaching:
    • Longitudinal Analysis, Survival Analysis.
  • Research Projects:
    • ADMIN Node
  • Postgraduate Research:
    • Education economics, Demographic economics, Health economics, Non linear models for cross section and panel data.
  • Professional Activities:
    • International Migration Review, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Research in Labor Economics, Communications in Statistics, McGraw-Hill (Book review), and ESRC rapporteur.
      Conference organiser: Stata User's Group Meeting, Mexico - 2009.
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • Missing ordinal covariates with informative selection. 2010 Econometric Society World Congress, Shanghai, China (Agust).
      Bivariate dynamic probit models for panel data. 2010 Mexican Stata User 's Group Meeting, Mexico City, Mexico (April).
      Migrant networks, migrant selection, and high school graduation in Mexico. XXII European association for population economics conference, London, UK, (June 2008).
  • Personal Country Knowledge:
    • Mexico
  • Languages Spoken:
    • English, Spanish (native)
  • Languages Written:
    • English, Spanish (native), French (beginner)
Dr Alfonso Miranda

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  • Address:
  • Department of Quantitative Social Science
    Institute of Education University of London
    20 Bedford Way
    London
    WC1H 0AL

  • Office Location:
  • Room 101
    55-59 Gordon Square, WC1H 0NU

Publications

  • Bratti, M. and Miranda, A. (2011) 'Endogenous treatment effects for count data models with endogenous participation or sample selection', Health Economics. Vol. 20, no. 9, pp. 1090--1109.
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  • Miranda, A. (2011) 'Migrant networks, migrant selection, and high school graduation in Mexico', Research in Labor Economics. Vol. 33, pp. - 263-306.
  • Dearden L., Miranda A, and Rabe-Hesketh, S. (2011) 'Measuring school value added with administrative data: the problem of missing variables', Fiscal Studies. Vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 263--278.
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  • Bratti, M. and Miranda, A. (2010) 'Non-pecuniary returns to higher education: the effect on smoking intensity in the UK', Health Economics. Vol. 19, no. 8, pp. 906-920.
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  • Miranda, A. (2008) 'Planed fertility and family background: a quantile regression for counts analysis', Journal of Population Economics. Vol. 21, 1, pp. 67-81.
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  • Miranda A. (2006) 'Are young cohorts of women delaying first birth in Mexico?', Journal of Population Economics. Vol. 19, 1, pp. 55-70.
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  • Miranda, A., and Rabe-Hesketh, S. (2006) 'Maximum likelihood estimation of endogenous switching and sample selection models for binary, count, and ordinal variables', Stata Journal. Vol. 6, 3, pp. 285-308.
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  • Miranda, A. (2004) 'FIML estimation of an endogenous switching model for count data', Stata Journal. Vol. 4, 1, pp. 40-49.
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