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Dr. Rebecca Valenzuela

Organisation: Department of Economics
Title: Senior Lecturer

Qualifications:

BSc Philippines, MEc New England, PhD New England


Rebecca teaches introductory and intermediate microeconomics, international trade and development economics.  Her research interests focus on: demand analysis of consumer behaviour; Bayesian applications; the measurement of the costs of raising children; and development economic issues, especially poverty, income distribution and the welfare effects of international remittances.
Office: Caulfield Campus
Room H4.53, Building H
900 Dandenong Road
Caulfield Vic 3145
Telephone: +61 3 9903 2841
Fax: +61 3 9903 1128
E-mail:

Rebecca.Valenzuela@BusEco.monash.edu.au

 
Teaching
Commitments:

ECF3120 - Consumer economics
ECF9210 - Introduction to international economics
ECF9530 - Economics
Research
Interests:

Demand system analysis, costs of children, food insecurity, inequality and poverty measurement, migration and remittances.    

 
Selected Publications:

W.E. Griffiths, M.R.Valenzuela, “Gibbs Samplers for a Set of Seemingly Unrelated Regressions”, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 2006, v48, 335-351.

J.M. Dowling, M.R. Valenzuela, Economic Development in Asia, Thomson Learning Asia Pte Ltd, 2005, 388 pages.

W.E. Griffiths, M.R. Valenzuela, "Estimating costs of children from micro-unit records: a new procedure applied to Australian data", Journal of Quantitative Economics, 2004, v2, 98-120.

J. Creedy, D. Johnson, M.R. Valenzuela, "A Cost Function for Higher Education in Australia", Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2003, v6, 117-134.

H. Hasegawa, V.H. Tran, M.R.Valenzuela, "Hoglex demand systems and welfare policy in major ASEAN developing countries: a Bayesian analysis using expenditure unit records", Journal of Quantitative Economics, 2003, v1,  52-65.

L. Gangadharan,  M.R.Valenzuela, "Interrrelationships between Health, Income and the Environment: Extending the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis", Ecological Economics, 2001, v36, 515-32.

G. Lancaster, R. Ray, M.R. Valenzuela, “A Cross-Country Study of Equivalence Scales and Expenditure Inequality on Unit Record Household Budget Data”, Review of Income and Wealth, 1999, v45, 455-82.

G. Lancaster, R. Ray, M.R. Valenzuela, “A Cross-Country Study of Household Poverty and Inequality on Unit Record Household Budget Data”, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1999, v14, 177-208.

W.E. Griffiths, M.R. Valenzuela, “Missing Data from Infrequency of Purchase: Bayesian Estimation of a Linear Expenditure System”, Advances in Econometrics, 1998, v13, 47-74.

D. Chotikapanich, M.R. Valenzuela, D.S.P. Rao, “Estimation of Global and Regional Inequality in the Distribution of Income with Limited and Incomplete Data”, Empirical Economics, 1997, v22, 533-546.  

M.R. Valenzuela,   “Engel Scales for Australia, the Philippines and Thailand: A Comparative Analysis”, Australian Economic Review, 1996, v114, 189-98.