Akira Murata

Completed PhD in Migration Studies (Economics) at Sussex Centre for Migration Research at University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Using advanced applied quantitative/econometric analysis and household surveys, the PhD research focused on migration and development, especially the effects of remittances on Filipino households.

Specialties: Familiarity with Development Economics (e.g poverty and inequality), Migration and Development (e.g. remittances, education), Migration Policies (e.g. brain drain, Local job creation), as well as Advanced Econometric Methods (e.g. censored regression, instrumental-variable (IV) censored regression, bivariate probit and bivariate tobit models, the inequality decomposition methods using quantile regressions, panel data analysis).