Marcia Schafgans

Position: Lecturer in Economics
Research Interests: Theoretical and applied microeconometrics; semiparametric and nonparametric estimation techniques; limited dependent variable models; sample selection models; development economics.

Contact Details
Teaching
Current Research
Working Papers
Publications

Contact Details

• Tel: 44-(0)20-7955-7487
• Fax: 44 (0)20 7955 6592
• Email: m.schafgans@lse.ac.uk
• Room number: S583
• Secretarial Support: Gill Wedlake; Tel: 44-(0)20-7955-6889

Teaching

• EC221 Principles of Econometrics
• EC312 Advanced Econometrics (Summer School)

Current Research

• A Derivative Based Estimator for Semiparametric Index Models, with B. Donkers
  
  
• "Multinomial Choice in a Parametric and Semiparametric Sample Selection Model: Wage Determination for Women in Malaysia"
  
  
• "The Evolution of the Gender Wage Gap in Malaysia, 1976-1989"
  
  
• "Import Competition and the Stock Market Return to Capital in the UK," with J. Stibora.
  
  
• "The Canadian Gender Wage Gap," with M. Stelcner.
  
  
• "Parental Preferences, Public Policy and Child Education Outcomes in Malaysia," with R. Burgess.
  
  

Working Papers

• "A Derivative Based Estimator For Semiparametric Index Models", with B. Donkers, CentER Discussion Paper No. 22, Tilburg University, 2003
  
  
• "On Intercept Estimation in the Sample Selection Model," with V. Zinde-Walsh, STICERD Discussion Paper No. EM/00/380, London School of Economics, 2000.
  
  
• "Semiparametric Estimation of a Sample Selection Model: A Simulation Study," STICERD Discussion Paper No. EM/97/326, London School of Economics, 1997.
  
  
• "Gender Wage Differences in Malaysia: Parametric and Semiparametric Estimation," STICERD Discussion Paper No. EM/97/325, London School of Economics, 1997.
  
  
• "Semiparametric Estimation of a Sample Selection Model," with D.W.K. Andrews, Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1119, Yale University, 1996.
  
  

Publications

• "Finite Sample Properties for the Semiparametric Estimation of the Intercept of a Censored Regression Model,
  Statistica Neerlandica, (2004) Vol. 58, 1, 35-56.
  
  
• "On Intercept Estimation in the Sample Selection Model," with V. Zinde-Walsh, Econometric Theory, 2002, 18, 40-50 .
  
  
• "Gender Wage Differences in Malaysia: Parametric and Semiparametric Estimation," Journal of Development Economics, 2000, 63, 351-378.
  
  
• "Semiparametric Estimation of the Intercept of a Sample Selection Model," Review of Economic Studies, 1998, 65, 497-517.
  
  
• "Ethnic Wage Differences in Malaysia: Parametric and Semiparametric Estimation of the Chinese- Malay Wage Gap," Journal of Applied Econometrics, 1998, 13, 481-504.
  
  
• "A Model of Household Decision Making in Rural Kenya: Fertility and Education," in Raising the Productivity of Women Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, Background papers Volumes I and II, ed. by K. Saito, H. Mekonnen, and D. Spurling, World Bank, Washington D.C. 1994.
  
  
• "The Extent and Impact of Women's Contribution in Peru, a Descriptive Analysis," in Women's Work, Education, and Family Welfare in Peru, ed. by B.K. Herz and S.R. Khandker, World Bank, Washington D.C. 1991.
  
  
• "Fertility Determinants in Peru, a Quantity-Quality Analysis," in Women's Work, Education, and Family Welfare in Peru, ed. by B.K. Herz and S.R. Khandker, World Bank, Washington D.C. 1991.
  
  
• "The Tail Index of Exchange Rate Returns," with K.G. Koedijk and C.G. de Vries, Journal of International Economics, 1990, Vol. 29, pp. 93-108.