Edwin van Gameren is Associate Professor of Economics at the Centro de Estudios Económicos of El Colegio de México in Mexico City.
Edwin van Gameren holds a PhD in Economics from the VU University (Vrije Universiteit, Free University) in Amsterdam, and an MSc in Econometrics from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He worked several years at the SCP/The Netherlands Institute for Social Research, mainly on questions regarding the demand for and the use of elderly care services, and on childcare and labor force participation decisions, but also on poverty, housing services, and other topics. Since 2006 he is professor and researcher at the Centro de Estudios Económicos of El Colegio de México. From 2015 to 2020 he was the Academic Coordinator of the PhD in Economics. His research interests include the application of micro-econometric methods in the fields of labor and health economics. Work on labor force participation and retirement decisions of elderly workers, including the role of health, mental health, and health insurance in these decisions; as well as questions related to education, poverty, inequality, and other topics, has been published in various national and international journals and other outlets.
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Academic qualifications
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PhD in Economics, VU University (Vrije Universiteit, Free University), Amsterdam, 2000
MSc in Econometrics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 1994 |
Academic positions
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Associate Professor of Economics, Centro de Estudios Económicos, El Colegio de México, Mexico City, 2010-present
Academic Coordinator of the PhD in Economics., Centro de Estudios Económicos, El Colegio de México, Mexico City, 2015-2020 Assistant Professor of Economics, Centro de Estudios Económicos, El Colegio de México, Mexico City, 2006-2010 Senior Researcher at the The Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP, Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau), The Hague, 1999 - 2006 |
Research interests
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Contact information
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Centro de Estudios Económicos, El Colegio de México
Carretera Picacho Ajusco No. 20 Ampliación Fuentes del Pedregal, Tlalpan, 14110, Mexico City, Mexico Email: egameren@colmex.mx Tel.: +52 . 55 . 5449 3000 ext. 4087 |
Recent work
Maritza Caicedo, Edwin van Gameren, Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes (forthcoming). The Risk of Psychological Distress among Unemployed and Underemployed Mexican and Colombian Immigrants in the US and in their Countries of Origin. Latino Studies. Accepted for publication (26 Jan 2021).
Jorge Mora-Rivera, Edwin van Gameren (2021). The Impact of Remittances on Food Insecurity. Evidence from Mexico. World Development, vol. 140 (April), art. 105349. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105349.
Jorge Mora-Rivera, Edwin van Gameren, Fernando García-Mora (2020). Pobreza y uso de crédito en los hogares rurales de México. Cuadernos de Economía - Spanish Journal of Economics and Finance, vol. 43 (no. 121), pp. 29-47. [with summary in English] doi: 10.32826/cude.v43i121.130; ,link to the paper.
Curtis Huffman, Edwin van Gameren (2019). Efectos heterogéneos y distributivos del Seguro Popular sobre la oferta de servicios de salud en México. El Trimestre Económico, vol. 86 (3) (no. 343), pp. 677-713. [with summary in English] doi: 10.20430/ete.v86i343.719; link to accepted manuscript (in English)
Jaime Andrés Sarmiento Espinel, Adriana Carolina Silva Arias, Edwin van Gameren (2019). Evolution of the Inequality of Educational Opportunities from Secondary Education to University. International Journal of Educational Development, vol. 66 (April), pp. 193-202. doi: 10.1016/j.ijedudev/2018.09.006.
Maritza Caicedo, Edwin van Gameren (2019). Desempleo, subempleo y Malestar Psicológico No Específico. Mexicanos, dominicanos y colombianos en Chicago y Nueva York. In: Maritza Caicedo. Trabajo y salud mental de latinoamericanos en Estados Unidos. Más que una paradoja, pp. 171-216. Ciudad de México: IISUNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México - Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales). ISBN: 978-607-30-1415-1. link to the complete book; link to pdf of the chapter.
Edwin van Gameren (2019). Estados Unidos, Países Bajos, Brasil: ¿por qué son tan felices los mexicanos? Coyuntura Demográfica, No. 16 (July 2019), pp. 35-43. ,link to the paper. (link to the online appendix).
Curtis Huffman, Edwin van Gameren (2018). The Roll-out of a Health Insurance Program and its Impact on the Supply of Healthcare Services: A New Method to Evaluate Time-Varying Continuous Interventions. International Journal for Equity in Health. vol. 17, art. 163, pp. 1-20. doi: 10.1186/s12939-018-0874-1
Curtis Huffman, Edwin van Gameren (2018). Covariate Balancing Inverse Probability Weights for Time-Varying Continuous Interventions. Journal of Causal Inference, vol. 6 (2), pp. 1-17. doi: 10.1515/jci-2017-0002.
Omar Stabridis, Edwin van Gameren (2018). Exposure to firewood: Consequences for health and labor force participation in Mexico. World Development, vol. 107 (July), pp. 382–395. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.03.009; link to accepted manuscript
Edwin van Gameren, Silvia Urbina Hinojosa (2018). La doble carga de la malnutrición: La inseguridad alimentaria y el sobrepeso en México. In: Ernesto Aguayo Téllez, Martha Claudia Rodríguez Villalobos (eds.). Economía de la salud en México, pp. 1-32. Ciudad de México: Pearson Educación de México. ISBN: 978-607-32-4436-7 (Print), 978-607-32-4437-4 (E-book). link to accepted manuscript
Jaime Andrés Sarmiento Espinel, Edwin van Gameren (2018). Collective Labor Supply with Children and Non-Participation: Evidence from Mexico. Estudios Economicos, vol. 33 (1), pp. 65-115. doi: 10.24201/ee.v33i1.354
Maritza Caicedo, Edwin van Gameren, Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes (forthcoming). The Risk of Psychological Distress among Unemployed and Underemployed Mexican and Colombian Immigrants in the US and in their Countries of Origin. Latino Studies. Accepted for publication (26 Jan 2021).
Jorge Mora-Rivera, Edwin van Gameren (2021). The Impact of Remittances on Food Insecurity. Evidence from Mexico. World Development, vol. 140 (April), art. 105349. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105349.
Jorge Mora-Rivera, Edwin van Gameren, Fernando García-Mora (2020). Pobreza y uso de crédito en los hogares rurales de México. Cuadernos de Economía - Spanish Journal of Economics and Finance, vol. 43 (no. 121), pp. 29-47. [with summary in English] doi: 10.32826/cude.v43i121.130; ,link to the paper.
Curtis Huffman, Edwin van Gameren (2019). Efectos heterogéneos y distributivos del Seguro Popular sobre la oferta de servicios de salud en México. El Trimestre Económico, vol. 86 (3) (no. 343), pp. 677-713. [with summary in English] doi: 10.20430/ete.v86i343.719; link to accepted manuscript (in English)
Jaime Andrés Sarmiento Espinel, Adriana Carolina Silva Arias, Edwin van Gameren (2019). Evolution of the Inequality of Educational Opportunities from Secondary Education to University. International Journal of Educational Development, vol. 66 (April), pp. 193-202. doi: 10.1016/j.ijedudev/2018.09.006.
Maritza Caicedo, Edwin van Gameren (2019). Desempleo, subempleo y Malestar Psicológico No Específico. Mexicanos, dominicanos y colombianos en Chicago y Nueva York. In: Maritza Caicedo. Trabajo y salud mental de latinoamericanos en Estados Unidos. Más que una paradoja, pp. 171-216. Ciudad de México: IISUNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México - Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales). ISBN: 978-607-30-1415-1. link to the complete book; link to pdf of the chapter.
Edwin van Gameren (2019). Estados Unidos, Países Bajos, Brasil: ¿por qué son tan felices los mexicanos? Coyuntura Demográfica, No. 16 (July 2019), pp. 35-43. ,link to the paper. (link to the online appendix).
Curtis Huffman, Edwin van Gameren (2018). The Roll-out of a Health Insurance Program and its Impact on the Supply of Healthcare Services: A New Method to Evaluate Time-Varying Continuous Interventions. International Journal for Equity in Health. vol. 17, art. 163, pp. 1-20. doi: 10.1186/s12939-018-0874-1
Curtis Huffman, Edwin van Gameren (2018). Covariate Balancing Inverse Probability Weights for Time-Varying Continuous Interventions. Journal of Causal Inference, vol. 6 (2), pp. 1-17. doi: 10.1515/jci-2017-0002.
Omar Stabridis, Edwin van Gameren (2018). Exposure to firewood: Consequences for health and labor force participation in Mexico. World Development, vol. 107 (July), pp. 382–395. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.03.009; link to accepted manuscript
Edwin van Gameren, Silvia Urbina Hinojosa (2018). La doble carga de la malnutrición: La inseguridad alimentaria y el sobrepeso en México. In: Ernesto Aguayo Téllez, Martha Claudia Rodríguez Villalobos (eds.). Economía de la salud en México, pp. 1-32. Ciudad de México: Pearson Educación de México. ISBN: 978-607-32-4436-7 (Print), 978-607-32-4437-4 (E-book). link to accepted manuscript
Jaime Andrés Sarmiento Espinel, Edwin van Gameren (2018). Collective Labor Supply with Children and Non-Participation: Evidence from Mexico. Estudios Economicos, vol. 33 (1), pp. 65-115. doi: 10.24201/ee.v33i1.354
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