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
This paper develops an empirical strategy to estimate whether subsidies to private medical insurance are self-financing in countries where public and private insurance coexist and the latter covers the same treatments as the former.
In this report, we provide estimates of how the programme has influenced nutrition and health-related indicators for children in the short term, roughly one year after its implementation.
In this Briefing Note, we will focus on the programme Familias en Acción, the conditional cash-transfer programme implemented by the Colombian government from 2001/02.
In this paper we evaluate the effect of a large nutrition programme in rural Colombia on children nutritional status, school achievement and female labour supply.
This report describes the survey that was carried out in 122 communities in rural Colombia bythe consortium formed by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Econometria and SEI as the baselinefor the impact evaluation of Familias en Acción, a programme to foster the accumulation ofhuman capital in rural Colombia, run by the Colombian government.
This note outlines the preliminary findings of the evaluation of a welfare programme in Colombia, Familias en Accíon. The programme aims to foster nutritional and educational development for the children of poor families in rural and urban communities, and the evaluation will use data collected from treatment and control areas to discover what methods are effective and how they work. In this note, we describe what the data show about the population and what the preliminary findings indicate about the efficacy of the programme.
