Professor Maria Garcia Reyes

Profile

Biography

BSc (Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico)
MSc (York)
PhD (York)

Career

Professor Maria Garcia Reyes is an economist specialising in inequality, income distribution, economic polarisation, poverty and criminology. Her research uses applied econometric methods and real-world data to examine economic and social inequalities and their implications for policy.

She has extensive experience in teaching, curriculum development and educational leadership, with a particular interest in quantitative and applied economics. She has led major curriculum and assessment developments within the Department of Economics and Related Studies and has contributed to international education partnerships, including the York–Gadjah Mada University partnership in Indonesia.

Departmental roles

2nd Year Lead

Research

Overview

Economic inequality
Income distribution
Economic polarisation
Poverty and deprivation
Applied econometrics
Criminology and the economics of crime
Socio-economic disparities and public policy

Publications

Selected publications

2025

The Circular Economy: Conceptual Foundations, General Equilibrium Model, and Applications Across Sectors
Garcia Reyes, M. (2025). In Circular Economy and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, Alfano, M.R. and Ciucci, S. (eds). Editoriale Scientifica. ISBN 979-12-235-0484-0.
Publisher and book information: https://editorialescientifica.it/prodotto/circular-economy-and-sustainability/

2019

Proposed New Prison at Full Sutton
Bowles, R. and Garcia Reyes, M. (2019). Internal paper, Ministry of Justice, UK.

2017

The Effect of Digital Technology on Prisoner Behavior and Reoffending: A Natural Stepped-Wedge Design
McDougall, C., Pearson, D.A.S., Torgerson, D.J. and Garcia-Reyes, M. (2017). Journal of Experimental Criminology, 13(4), 455–482.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-017-9303-5
University of York / White Rose: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/127875/

2009

Crime Reporting Decisions and the Costs of Crime
Bowles, R., Garcia Reyes, M. and Garoupa, N. (2009). European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 15(4), 365–377.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10610-009-9109-8
U.S. Office of Justice Programs: https://ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/crime-reporting-decisions-and-costs-crime

Mainstreaming Methodology for Estimating the Costs of Crime
Bowles, R., Cohen, M., Garcia Reyes, M., Godfrey, C., Zedlewski, E., Ogus, A., Garoupa, N., Ortiz de Urbina, I., Moolenaar, D., Dubourg, R., Gardlund, A., Savona, E., Vettori, B. and Dolan, P. (2009). European Union, MMECC Project 044422, Final Publishable Activity Report.
European Commission / CORDIS: https://cordis.europa.eu/docs/results/44/44422/126792201-6_en.pdf

2007

Reporting and Recording of Crime
Bowles, R. and Garcia Reyes, M. (2007). Paper presented at the European Society of Criminology, Bologna, Italy.

2006

Multifactor Inequality: Substitution Effects for Income Sources in Mexico
Garcia Reyes, M. (2006). ECINEQ Working Paper No. 31, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality.
ECINEQ / RePEc: https://ideas.repec.org/p/inq/inqwps/ecineq2006-31.html

2005

National Monitoring and Evaluation of Safer School Partnerships
Bowles, R.A., Garcia Reyes, M. and Pradiptyo, R. (2005). Youth Justice Board, 180 pp.
UCL Digital Education Resource Archive: https://dera.ioe.ac.uk/id/eprint/7759/

1993

Shadow Prices of Labour in Mexico
Palacios, J., Gonzales, M. and Garcia Reyes, M. (1993). BANOBRAS and World Bank project.

Work in Progress

Assessing Polarisation: The KLIC Perspective during Jokowi’s Regime
Garcia Reyes, M., Sulistyaningrum, E., Nugroho, W.S. and Sari, F. (2025–present). Under revision.

Teaching

Undergraduate

Module Leader for Data, Evidence and Policy
Dissertation Module: Social Policy Workshop Group

Postgraduate

Module Leader for PG Dissertation
Dissertation Module: Development Economics Workshop Group
Module 1: Basic Economic Concepts for Health Care Professionals

Professor Garcia Reyes has over two decades of experience in economics education at the University of York. Her teaching spans macroeconomics, microeconomics, quantitative analysis, applied microeconomics and statistics.

Her educational leadership has included Chair of the Board of Studies, Chair of the Departmental Teaching Committee, Director of the Economics Pre-Sessional Course and leadership of undergraduate curriculum and assessment development.

She has led innovations in curriculum design, assessment and student supervision, including the development of departmental class descriptors and marking criteria and the redesign of dissertation provision.