Nancy Lozano-Gracia

Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate, GeoDa Center
Office: Coor 5632
Phone: 480-965-6672
Email:
Education:

1998 - B.S. (Economics) Universidad de los Andes, Bogota - Colombia

2002 - M.A. (Environmental & Resource Economics) Universidad de los Andes, Bogota - Colombia

2003 - M.S. (Agricultural & Resource Economics) University of Maryland, College Park

2008 - Ph.D. (Agricultural & Consumer Economics) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests:

Spatial analysis and spatial econometric methods and their applications to environmental, regional and urban economic problems.

Awards and Honors:
  • Runners-up Award RSAI Dissertation Competition 2008.
  • 2006/2007 Empirical Economics Springer Prize for best paper in the journal Empirical Economics. Paper: “Errors in Variables and Spatial Effects in Hedonic House Price Models of Ambient Air Quality” Empirical Economics 34(1), 2008: 5-34
  • Dissertation Completion Fellowship. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Aug. 2007
  • Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, PhD Dissertation Fellowship, May 2007
  • Member of the Agriculture Honor Society, Gamma Sigma Delta- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign since 2005.
Recent Publications:
  • Anselin, Luc and Lozano-Gracia Nancy (Forthcoming). "Spatial Hedonics". In Terence C. Mills and Kerry Patterson (eds.) Handbook of Econometrics: Volume 2 Applied Econometrics. Palgrave
  • Lozano, Nancy (2004). “Air Pollution in Bogotá Colombia: A Concentration Response Approach.” Revista Desarrollo y Sociedad. September, No. 54. pp 133-177.
  • Lozano, Nancy (2002). “La Prima de Colombia en el Café Verde.” ("The Premium of Colombian Green Coffee") Ensayos sobre Economía Cafetera, Año 15, No. 18. pp 61-72.