Dr Maria Garcia Reyes
Senior Lecturer

Profile

Biography

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

Departmental roles

• Director of the Summer Session for postgraduate students
• Supervision Coordinator
• Chair of Departmental Teaching Committee

Research

Overview

Income Polarisation, Inequality, Poverty, Income Distribution, Criminology. My research is mostly empirical.

Publications

Selected publications

Recent Output

Journal Paper:

"The effect of digital technology on prisoner behaviour and reoffending: a natural stepped-wedge design." Journal Experimental Criminology, Cynthia McDougall & Dominic A. S. Pearson & David J. Torgerson & Maria Garcia-Reyes, October 2017. 

"Recording and Reporting Decisions." Joint paper with Professor Roger Bowles and Professor Nuno Garoupa, European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, December 2009.

Working Papers:

"Multifactor Inequality: Substitution Effects for Income Sources in Mexico", Society for the Study of Economic Inequality ECINEQ, WP 2006-31.

"Empirical Comparison of Measures of Polarization, a Monte Carlo approach", presented at International Conference of Statistics and Methodology, Ljubljana 2002.

"Shadow Prices of Labour in Mexico", joint project: BANOBRAS Bank and World Bank, 1993.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Workshop for Dissertation Module: Social Policy
• Seminars for Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy
• Public Policy Analysis

Postgraduate

• PG Dissertation Module organiser
• Workshop for Dissertation Module: Development Economics
• Economics  Pre-Sessional course DL component
• Economics  Pre-Sessional course Mathematics Module

Other teaching

• Director of the Summer Session for postgraduate students