Rosa Liliana Matzkin

 

April 2008

 

 

Major Interests:

 

Microeconometrics, Nonparametric Methods, Microeconomic Theory

 

 

Education:

 

1986                Ph.D. in Economics, University of Minnesota

 

1981                B.Sc. in Management and Economics, Technion,

                        Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

 

 

Main employment:

 

2007 -              Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles, California

 

2006 - 2007     Visiting Professor of Economics, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

 

1995 - 2007     Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Northwestern University

 

1992 - 1995     Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Northwestern University

 

1991 - 1992     Associate Professor of Economics, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Department of Economics, Yale University

 

1986 - 1991     Assistant Professor of Economics, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Department of Economics, Yale University

 

1981 - 1984     Teaching Assistant and Teaching Associate, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota.

 

 

Other appointments:

 

2007 - 2008     Visiting Associate in Economics, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology

 

2005 -             International Fellow, Center for Microdata Methods and Practice, London, U.K.

 

2005                Visiting Faculty, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University (Nov. 28 - Dec. 10).

 

2005                Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley (Oct. 4th - Nov. 4th)

 

2004 - 2005     Research Fellow, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

2000 - 2002     Visiting Professor, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Summer Quarters)

 

2000                Visiting Professor, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Department of Economics, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Summer Quarter)

 

1991 - 1992     Visiting Associate Professor, University of Chicago, Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (Fall and Spring Quarters)

 

1991 - 1992     Visiting Scholar, M.I.T., Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Spring Semester)

   

1989                Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Department of Economics, Madison, Wisconsin (Fall Semester)

 

1988                Visiting Assistant Professor, Bonn University, Department of Economics, Bonn, Germany (June)

 

1981 - 1984     Teaching Assistant and Teaching Associate, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota.

 

 

 

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

 

2006 - 2010                 National Science Foundation Research Grant SES-0551272 for

                                    “Identification and Estimation in Structural Econometric Models”

                                    (role: PI)

 

2005 - 2008                 National Institute of Aging Grant for “Measuring the Effects of Aging on Perception and Behavior,” (joint with D. McFadden, F. Caro, and J. Winter; role: co-PI)

 

2004 - 2009                 National Science Foundation Research Grant BCS-0433990 for “Hedonic Models of Location Decisions with Applications to Geospatial Micro-Data” (joint with L. Anselin, G.A. Boyd, J.J. Heckman, and L.P, Nesheim; role: PI)

 

2003 - 2006                 National Science Foundation Research Grant SES-0241858 for Collaborative Research on the Formulation, Estimation, and Identification of Hedonic Pricing, Demand and Supply Models (joint with J.J. Heckman, L.P. Nesheim, and L.R. Scott; role: co-PI)

 

2001 - 2003                 Household International, Inc. Research Professor of Economics,

                                    Northwestern University

 

1995                            Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society

 

1994 - 1999                 National Science Foundation Research Grant #SBR-9410182 for

                                    Nonparametric Methods for Economic Models (role: PI)

 

1992 - 1994                 National Science Foundation Research Grant #SES-9122294 for Computation and Operational Properties of Nonparametric Shape-Restricted Estimators (role: PI)

 

1991 – 1992                Senior Faculty Fellowship, Yale University

 

1989 - 1992                 National Science Foundation Research Grant #SES-8900291 for Collaborative Research on Applied General Equilibrium with Increasing Returns:  A Nonparametric Analysis (joint with D.J. Brown; role: co-PI)

 

1988 - 1990                 National Science Foundation Research Grant #SES-8720596 for

                                    Nonparametric Inferences from Demand Observations (role: PI)

 

1990                            Social Science Faculty Research Grant, Yale University

 

1989                            Social Science Faculty Research Grant, Yale University

 

1989                            Enders Award, Yale University

 

1987 - 1988                 National Science Foundation Supercomputer Grant for Nonparametric

                                    Estimation of Utility Functions (role: PI)

 

1985                            The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, University of Minnesota

 

1984 - 1985                 Sloan Foundation Fellowship

 

1982 - 1983                 Grant/Loan, University of Tel-Aviv, Israel

 

1981                            Graduated Cum Laude, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

 

 

 

 

Selected Professional Activities:

 

Associate Editor, Econometrica, 2004 - present

 

Associate Editor, Journal of Econometrics, 1994 - present

 

Member of Honorary Academic Council, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2004-present

 

Member of the 2007 Nominating Committee for Fellows of the Econometric Society

 

Past member of NSF advisory panel for Economics

 

Past member of NSF advisory panel for Mathematical Social and Behavioral Science competition

 

Member of the 2005 Nominating Committee of the American Economic Association

 

Chair of the organizing committee of the 2004 Midwest Econometrics Group

 

Member of the organizing committees of the following conferences: 2007 Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society, 2006 Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society, 2005 World Congress of the Econometric Society, 2002 Annual Meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Association (LACEA),2002 Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society, 2001 Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society, 1999 Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society, 1999 Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, 1999 Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, 1995 World Congress of the Econometric Society, 1994 Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society, 1994 Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society. Co-Chair of the 1993 NSF/NBER Conference on Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods

 

Refereed papers/proposals/books for Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, American Economic Review, Blackwell Publishers, Inc., Econometric Theory, Econometrica, Econometric Reviews, Economic Theory, Handbook of Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Political Economy, National Science Foundation, Nonparametric and Semiparametric Methods in  Econometric and Statistics, Research Council of Canada, Review of Economic Studies, Southern Economic Journal, Springer-Verlag Publishers, The Review of Economics and Statistics, and W. Norton & Company, and Worth Publishers.

 

 

Recent Major Invited Lectures:

 

Keynote speaker, 14th International Conference on Panel Data Conference, WISE, Xiamen University, China, July 2007.

 

Invited Lecture on Modeling Heterogeneity, Ninth World Congress of the Econometric Society, London, U.K., August 2005.

 

Rolf Mantel Lecture, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October and December, 2003

 

Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society, Invited Lecture on Econometric Methods, Sao Pablo, Brazil, July 24-27, 2002

 

Annual Meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), Invited lecture on Panel Data, Montevideo, Uruguay, October 2001

 

Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society, Invited Lecture on Semiparametric and Nonparametric Estimation of Simultaneous Equations Models, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 26-28, 2001

 

Keynote speaker, Midwest Econometrics Group, Chicago, October 20-21, 2000. Title of talk: “Nonparametric Estimation of Nonadditive Random Functions.”

 

Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society, Invited Lecture on New Developments in the Estimation of Preferences and Production Functions, Cancun, Mexico, August 1999.

 

Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Invited Session on Microeconometrics, June 1999, University of Wisconsin.  Title of talk: “Nonparametric Estimation of Nonadditive Random Functions.”

 

Conference on “The Economic Analysis of the year 1999,” organized by the Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina, June 1999. Title of talk: “Experiences from the Crisis of East Asia”

 

Keynote speaker at “Texas Camp Econometrics,” a conference sponsored by The James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, on February 1997.  Title of talk: “Nonparametric Discrete Choice with Unobserved Heterogeneity.”

 

Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society, Invited Session on Microeconometrics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 1996.  Title of talk: “Nonparametric Discrete Choice Models with Unobserved Heterogeneity”.

 

 

Personal:

 

Born in Argentina, married, two children (ages 8 and 10)