Hoi Yan Ada Ma
Assistant Professor
Department of Quantitative and Applied Economics (QAE)
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
China
Biography
Ada has written her PhD on Personnel Economics. Following that she went to University of Aberdeen and worked as a Research Fellow on Labour and Health Economics. She worked in a team that calculated the Market Forces Factor - an geographically based cost adjustment that compensated the variation in operation costs for publicly funded hospitals and family doctors in England. She studied and has written papers about the remuneration systems that were introduced to hospitals and family doctors by the British Labour Government in the 2000s. She then worked at the Central Policy Unit of the Hong Kong Government and helped with the preparation of background materials for issues being discussed at the Commission on Strategic Development, which is chaired by the Chief Executive of Hong Kong.
Research Interest
Labour economics, applied microeconometrics, policy evaluation, health economics, open to suggestions.
Publications
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Morris, S., Goudie, R., Sutton, M., Gravelle, H., Elliott, R. F., Hole, A., Ma, A., Sibbald, B., and Skåtun, D., Determinants of general practitioners' wages in England, Health Economics, Feb 2011, 20(2), 147-160
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Barmby, T., Eberth, B., Ma, A., Incentives, Learning, Task Difficulty, and the Peter Principle: Interpreting individual output changes in an Organisational Hierachy, Labour Economics¸January 2012, 19(1), 76-81.
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Feng, Y., Ma, A., Farrar, S., Sutton, M., The Tougher the Better: An Economic Analysis of Increased Payment Thresholds on the Performance of General Practices, Health Economics, Online Early View, published 5th January 2014.
