Dr Patricio Valdivieso Massa
Dr Patricio Valdivieso Massa
Applied micro-econometrician with particular interest in the fields of Labour, Health, Behavioural and Energy Economics. I regularly teach econometrics and statistics at the undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Areas of interest
- Applied Econometrics, Labour Economics, Behavioural Economics, Health Economics and Energy Economics.
Background
My current research includes 3 projects:
- Intergenerational economic mobility in the UK, with a particular interest on differentials between socio-ethnic groups, the white working-class boys and looking into their returns as well as their aspirations.
- Intergenerational transmission of obesity in the UK analysing the impact of the socioeconomic gradient between genders and age groups.
- A theoretical microeconomic model about aspirations and educational achievement, using prospect theory. Adjacent interests include machine learning methods such as random forests.
Publication: Battu, H., Aoki, Y., & Valdivieso Massa, P. (2019). The Intergenerational Mobility of White Working-Class Boys: A Quantitative Analysis. Find out more: https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/2164/12563/DP_2019_2.pdf?sequence=1