Marcos is a Research Fellow at IFS and Professor of Economics at University College London.
Marcos' research focuses in the economics of health in developed and developing countries. In his research, he aims at understanding the consequences of health-related risk, the market failures in health insurance markets, the behaviour of health care providers, and the choices that individuals and household make with regards to health investments (especially in childhood). Recently, he has developed an interest in understanding the effects of community interventions, and has broaden his interests to include child development.
Education
PhD Economics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2001
MSc Economics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1998
BA Economics, Universidad de La Laguna (Canary Islands) and Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1996
In this note, the authors provide evidence indicating that extended families are important in this context, before demonstrating that it is vital to understand their effects on household well-being, and that there is a role for government intervention. The authors further summarise work undertaken by EDePo that shows the need to incorporate the extended family in order to design effective policies and interventions.
This presentation was delivered at the "Medical spending across the developed world" conference on 27 and 28 March 2015. The conference took place at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The authors study a Conditional Cash Transfer programme in which the cash transfers to the mother only depend on the fulfillment of the national preventive visit schedule by her children born before she registered in the programme.
IFS Research Fellow Marcos Vera-Hernandez delivered this presentation on 28 January during the Kenya Social Protection Conference Week, entitled "Enhancing Synergy in Social Protection Delivery”. The conference was organised by the Government of Kenya and UNICEF and took place in Nairobi between 27-30 January 2015.
This paper studies the effects of a randomised intervention in rural Malawi which, over a six-month period, provided mothers of young infants with information on child nutrition without supplying any monetary or in-kind resources.
A study of Colombia's Régimen Subsidiado, a publicly financed insurance program targeted to the poor, which aims to provide risk protection and to promote allocative efficiency in the use of medical care.
This presentation was given by Bansi Malde at the PEPA workshop "Are you sure that's the answer? Robust inference and policy evaluation" on 9 October 2013.
Incorrect knowledge of the health production function may lead to inefficient household choices, and thereby to the production of suboptimal levels of health. This paper studies the effects of a randomised intervention in rural Malawi which, over a six-month period, provided mothers of young infants with information on child nutrition without supplying any monetary or in-kind resources.
This presentation was given at the Centre for Study of African Economies Conference in Oxford on 18-20 March 2012 and the Royal Economic Society Annual Conference in Cambridge on 26-28 March 2012.
Despite current emphasis on health insurance expansions in developing countries, inefficient consumer incentives for over-use of medical care are an important counterbalancing concern.
