Mónica Hernández PhD
Research Fellow in Econometrics
Address:
HEDS, ScHARR
University of Sheffield
Regent Court, 30 Regent Street
Sheffield S1 4DA
Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 0736
Fax: (+44) (0)114 272 4095
E-mail: monica.hernandez@sheffield.ac.uk
Room: 2016
Biography
I joined ScHARR from the Department of Economics in August 2009. I obtained her PhD, MSc and BSc in Economics at the University of Leicester. I have previously been a lecturer at the University of Birmingham.
Research Interests
- Microeconometrics: in particular, applications to individuals’ decisions to participate in welfare programmes; modelling health state utilities, cost data, the economics of illicit behaviour and the economics of individual wellbeing
- Applications of nonlinear econometric models, multilevel and latent variable models, global optimisation algorithms and numerical integration
Teaching Interests
- Econometrics
Professional Activities
- Member of the NICE Public Health Collaborating Centre
- Visiting research associate at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex
Current Projects
- ESRC CASE studentship "A public health approach to obesity: the role of econometrics."
- Long-term care for older people: the role and effectiveness of disability benefits. Nuffield Foundation (1 October 2008 – 30 September 2010). PI: Professor Ruth Hancock (University of East Anglia). £124,143.
- Developing a preference-based method for mapping between (preference-based) measures of health and quality of life. Medical Research Council (1 January 2008 – 31 December 2008). PI: Professor John Brazier. £150,000.
- ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (October 2003 – August 2004) £27,488.53.
Key Publications
- Wailoo A J, Hernández M, Goodacre S, Sampson F et al (2009). Primary angioplasty versus thrombolysis for acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction in the UK NHS: an economic analysis of the National Infarct Angioplasty Project Pilots. Heart, online first, doi:10.1136/hrt.2009.167130
- Goodacre S et al (2008). Evaluation of the National Infarct Angioplasty Project Pilots. Report for the National Co-ordinating Centre for NHS Service Delivery and Organisation R&D (NCCSDO). Economic evaluation co-author.
- Hernández M, Pudney S (2007). Measurement error in models of welfare participation. Journal of Public Economics 91(1):327-341.
- Hernández M, Pudney S, Hancock R (2007). The welfare cost of means-testing. Pensioner participation in Income Support. Journal of Applied Econometrics 22:581-598.
- Hancock R, Pudney S E, Sutherland H, Barker G, Hernández M (2005). What should be the role of means-testing in state pensions? Pensions Policy Institute. Seminar 5 in the series Shaping a stable pensions solution. [link]
- Hancock R, Pudney S E, Barker G, Hernández M, Sutherland H (2004). The take-up of multiple means-tested benefits by British pensioners: evidence from the Family Resources Survey. Fiscal Studies 25(3):279-303.
- Hernández M (2002). A continuous time approach to cross-country convergence. In: East European transition and EU enlargement. A quantitative approach. Charemza W W, Strzala K (eds). Physica-Verlag Heidelberg, New York.