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Overview

The Applied MicroEconometric Cluster (AME) provides an interactive research environment for faculty members and graduate students working in the field of applied micro-econometrics at the University of York.

The cluster sponsors research on multiple aspects of applied economics research including labour economics, health economics, micro-finance, experimental economics, household economics, and well-being research. Amongst its many activities are student workshops, research seminars, public lectures and a distinguished visiting fellows program.

People

People

Director: Professor Karen Mumford

Fellows

Distinguished Visiting Fellows

Professor Shelly Lundberg, University of Washington
17-21 May 2010
Personal webpage

Professor Lundberg presented a series of lectures in week 4 of Summer term 2010, as well as giving a talk to the '2010 RES Women's Committee Northern PhD student meeting' on Tuesday 18th May, and a contribution to the Departmental Seminar series on Tuesday 18 May (ARRC auditorium 16:15-17:45).
Details of lecture series

Professor Krishna Pendakur, Simon Fraser University
2-6 November 2009
Personal webpage

Professor Pendakur presented a series of lectures in week 4 of Autumn term 2009/10, as well as giving a talk to the AME cluster meeting on Tuesday 3 November, and making a contribution to the Departmental Seminar series on Wednesday 4 November.
Details of lecture series

Professor Christopher Baum, Boston College
14-18 December 2009
Personal webpage

Professor Baum presented a series of lectures in week 10 of Autumn term 2009/10, as well as making a contribution to the Departmental Seminar series on Tuesday 15 December.
Details of lecture series

Papers

Working Papers, 2012

March

• Increasing returns, knowledge transfers and the optimal duration of equity joint ventures
  David Mayston and Juning Wang

April

• Minimum wage hikes and the wage growth of low-wage workers 
  Joanna K. Swaffield

Working Papers, 2011

Debember

• Analysing the Research and Teaching Quality Achievement Frontier
  David Mayston
• The Optimal Duration of Equity Joint Ventures
  David Mayston, Juning Wang

October

• Royal Economic Society Women’s Committee Survey on the Gender and Ethnic Balance of Academic Economics 2010 
  Laura C. Blanco and Karen Mumford
• Housing Debt and Consumption
  Viola Angelini and Peter Simmons

September

• Static Decisions May Be Optimal in a Life Cycle Setting
  P Simmons

May

• Gross Worker Flows in the United Kingdom: An Anatomical Analysis of the 2008-2009 Recession
  Andrew Sutton

February

• Measuring and testing for gender discrimination in physician pay: English family doctors
  Hugh Gravelle, Arne Risa Hole, Rita Santos

Working Papers, 2010

October

• Timing of Parental Income and Child Outcomes: The Role of Permanent and Transitory Shocks
  E Tominey

June

• Estimation of Alternative Models of Female Labour supply with Fixed Travel Costs
N Linciano , P Simmons
• Preferences and labor supply effects of benefits: the case of income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
  P Simmons, F Zantomio

May

• Priming Cooperation in Social Dilemma Games
  M Drouvelis, R Metcalfe, N Powdthavee
• Employee Training and Wage Dispersion: White and Blue Collar Workers in Britain
  F Almeida-Santos, Y Chzhen, K Mumford

April

• Job Insecurity: A Collective Approach
  F Mariotti

March

• Education and Body Mass Index: Evidence from ECHP
  R Nakamura, L Siciliani

February

• The Effects of Daughters on Health Choices and Risk Behaviour
  N Powdthavee, S Wu, A Oswald

Working Papers, 2009

November

• Royal Economic Society Women’s Committee Survey on the Gender and Ethnic Balance of Academic Economics 2008
  K Mumford

October

• The Gender Pay Gap for Private Sector Employees in Canada and Britain
  M Drolet, K Mumford
• Gender Gaps Across the Earnings Distribution in Britain: Are Women Bossy Enough?
  Y Chzhen, K Mumford 0927 (PDF , 267kb)
• Aspirations, Expectations and Education Outcomes for Children in Britain: Considering Relative Measures of Family Efficiency
  Y Li, K Mumford 0926 (PDF , 212kb)

July

• Jobless, Friendless, and Broke: What Happens to Different Areas of Life Before and After Unemployment?
  N Powdthavee
• Does Education Reduce Blood Pressure? Estimating the Biomarker Effect of Compulsory Schooling in England
  N Powdthavee 0914 (PDF , 174kb)

May

• Destruction and distress: using a quasi-experiment to show the effects of the September 11 attacks on subjective well-being in the UK
  R Metcalfe, N Powdthavee, and P Dolan

March

• Conditional and Unconditional Multiple Equilibria with Strategic Complementarities
  S Borla and P Simmons
• Waiting Time Targets in Healthcare Markets: How Long Are We Waiting?
  H Dixon and L Siciliani

February

• Anticipation, Free Rider Problem, and Adaptation to Trade Union: Re-examining the Curious Case of Dissatisfied Union Members
  N Powdthavee 0904 (PDF , 342kb)

January

• Surviving Slavery. Mortality at Mesopotamia, a Jamaican sugar estate, 1762 - 1832
  M Forster and S.D Smith 0903 (PDF , 539kb)
• How Much Does Money Really Matter? Estimating the Causal Effects of Income on Happiness
  N Powdthavee 0902 (PDF , 175kb)

Software

Software and Data

AME members have made use of many of Britain’s, and of the world's, micro-data sets – these include:

ALS (Australia); ASHE (UK); BCS (Britain); BFRSS (American); BHPS (Britain); EHPS (Europe); FES (Britain); GSOEP (Germany); HILDA (Australia); IFLS (Indonesia); LFS (various countries); NCDS (UK); NES (UK); WERS (Britain); and WES (Canada)

Some of this data is now held in ARRC for restricted use (see below).

Alcuin Research Resource Centre (ARRC)

Members of the AME cluster often make use of the Alcuin Research Resource Centre (ARRC), which was funded by The Wellcome Trust/ESRC Joint Infrastructure Fund. The ARRC embodies the concept of a multidisciplinary collaborative support infrastructure for researchers involved in social sciences research.

The ARRC provides four major service areas to researchers (staff and PhD students) at the University of York:

• Data Collection
• Data Management
• Data Analysis
• Dissemination of research findings

Software

Applications currently available on the ARRC system to members include:

64 bit:

Mathematica 5.2; Matlab R2006a; Stata 9 and Stata 10

32 bit:

Eviews 6; Excel 2003; Gauss 8 + 10 Applications Bundle + Constrained Optimization + Constrained Maximum Likelihood; MLWin 2.02; NLogit 3; Openbugs 3.03; Oxmetrics Enterprise 5; R 2.4; R 2.6.1; SPSS 14.02; Stata 9.2; Stata 10; Treeage Pro 2007 1.5; and Winrats Pro 7In addition to the above list, the University of York subscribes to most estimation packages.

Coding

Coding applications that may be of interested can be found on the Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) coding page.

Meetings

Forthcoming meetings

All meetings will take place in the ARRC Seminar Room on Tuesdays at 12:15-13:15 unless stated otherwise.

	Summer term 2012
17 April	Seminar, presented by Professor Michael Lechner (University of St. Gallen, Swiss Institute for Empirical Economic Research (SEW)) Title: Sports and Child Development (PDF , 432kb) Sports and Child Development - Internet Appendix (PDF , 552kb)
24 April	Eugenia Shevtsova (University of York) Title: International Trade and Productivity: Firm-Level Evidence from Ukraine Venue: Health Economics Research Centre (HERC)
08 May	Stephan Dlugosz (Centre for European Economic Research, ZEW) Title: (Semi-)parametric regression with misclassification at work: labour market transitions (re-)investigated
15 May	HEDG cluster group, presentation by John Cawley (Cornell University) Title: The Effect of Advertising and Deceptive Advertising on Consumption: the Case of Over-the-Counter Weight Loss Products Venue: ARRC Auditorium, 16.15 to 17.45
22 May	Laura C. Blanco (PhD student, University of York) Title: Getting a Girlie Job: Gender Performance and Early Stimuli in Female Degree Choices
23 May	Departmental Seminar, presented by Professor Marco Francesconi (University of Essex) Title: Anatomy of Welfare Reform: Announcement and Implementation Effects Venue: ARRC Auditorium, 16:15 to 17:45
19 Jun	Andrew Sutton (PhD student, University of York) Title: TBC

Past meetings

	Autumn term 2011
25 Oct	Ralf Wilke (University of York) Title: A regression model for the Copula Graphic Estimator (with Simon Lo)
08 Nov	Daniel Howden (PhD student, University of York) Title: Socioeconomic Inequality in Health: A Social Gradient in Cancer? Venue: Health Economics Research Centre (HERC)
22 Nov	Joint with the Experimental Research Cluster Lisa Cameron (Monash University) Title: Little Emperors - Behavioral Impacts of China's One-Child Policy (PDF , 1,251kb) Venue: Health Economics Research Centre (HERC)
30 Nov	Departmental Seminar, presented by Professor Wiji Arulampalam (University of Warwick) Title: TBC Venue: ARRC Auditorium, 16:15 to 17:45
06 Dec	Denzil Fiebig (UNSW) Title: Three things that bother me about mixed logit

	Summer term 2011
4 May	Departmental Seminar, presented by Professor Frank Windmeijer (University of Bristol) Title: TBC Venue: ARRC Auditorium, 16:15 to 17:45
24 May	Jo Swaffield (University of York) Title: Low wages, minimum wages and the living wage: Estimating the impact of wage policies on labour market outcomes Venue: AEC 201 (Economics meeting room) 12.15-1.15
07 June	Vivien Burrows (PhD student, University of York) Title: Modelling income and house price processes for the UK V Burrows Abstract (PDF , 116kb)
21 Jun	Andrew Sutton (PhD student, University of York) Title: The Determinants of UK Unemployment and the Great Recession: Analysing the Gross Flows Data A Sutton Abstract (PDF , 47kb)
19 Jul	Francesca Zantomio (University of Venice) Title: Older People's Participation in Disability Benefits: Targeting, Timing and Financial Wellbeing F Zantomio Abstract (PDF , 120kb)

	Autumn term 2009/10
20 Oct	Francesco Mariotti (PhD student, University of York), 'Job Insecurity: a Collective Approach'
21 Oct	Departmental Seminar, Martyn Andrews (University of Manchester), 'Worksharing in Reverse: Evidence from Germany' (in R/C/014, 16:15-17:45)
27 Oct	Catia Nicodemo (Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona), Disadvantage and Advantage of Immigrants in the Spanish Labour Market (PDF , 357kb)
4 Nov	Departmental Seminar, Krishna Pendakur (in R/C/014, 13:15-14:45), 'Children's Resources in Collective Households'
10 Nov	Cluster discussion: 'Super Pump Priming Fund - £100k' applications for 2009/10, and best strategies for attaining journal publication 'Research Publication Pathways'
11 Nov	Departmental Seminar, Stephen Machin (UCL) (in R/C/014, 16:15-17:45)
17 Nov	Yekaterina Chzhen (PhD student, University of York)
1 Dec	Tim Beatty (University of York)
15 Dec	Departmental Seminar, presented by Professor Kit Baum (in R/C/014, 16:15-17:45)

Contact

Contact

If you have any enquiries concerning the Applied MicroEconometrics cluster please email the cluster Director, Karen Mumford.