Felipe González
Reader, Queen Mary University of London
Ph.D. Economics UC Berkeley
Research areas: Political Economy, Development Economics, Public Economics, Economic History, Public Policy
 
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Journal Articles
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The dark side of infrastructure: Roads, repression, and land in authoritarian Paraguay
with Josepa Miquel-Florensa, Mounu Prem, and Stéphane Straub.
Economic Journal, forthcoming.
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Dictatorship, higher education, and social mobility
with María Angélica Bautista, Luis Martínez, Pablo Muñoz, and Mounu Prem.
Journal of Historical Political Economy, forthcoming.
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Higher education and mortality: Legacies of an authoritarian college contraction
with Luis Martínez, Pablo Muñoz, and Mounu Prem
Journal of the European Economic Association, 22(4):1762-1797, 2024.
Online appendix
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The economics of the public option: Evidence from local pharmaceutical markets
with Juan Pablo Atal, José Ignacio Cuesta, and Cristóbal Otero. NBER working paper
American Economic Review, 114(3):615-644, 2024.
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Police violence, student protests, and educational performance
with Mounu Prem
Review of Economics and Statistics, 106(3):712-727, 2024.
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The limits of hegemony: U.S. banks and Chilean firms in the Cold War
with Felipe Aldunate and Mounu Prem
Journal of Development Economics, 166:103212, 2024.
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The intergenerational transmission of higher education: Evidence from the 1973 coup in Chile
with María Angélica Bautista, Luis Martínez, Pablo Muñoz, and Mounu Prem
Explorations in Economic History, 90:101540, 2023.
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The geography of repression and opposition to autocracy
with María Angélica Bautista, Luis Martínez, Pablo Muñoz, and Mounu Prem
American Journal of Political Science, 67(1):101-118, 2023.
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Lost in transition? The persistence of dictatorship mayors
with Pablo Muñoz and Mounu Prem
Journal of Development Economics, 151:102669, 2021.
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Collective action and policy implementation: Evidence from Salvador Allende's expropriations
with Felipe Vial
Journal of Economic History, 81(2):405-440, 2021.
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Distorted quality signals in school markets
with José Ignacio Cuesta and Cristián Larroulet Philippi
Journal of Development Economics, 147:102532, 2020.
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Privatization and business groups: Evidence from the Chicago Boys in Chile
with Felipe Aldunate, Mounu Prem, and Francisco Urzúa
Explorations in Economic History, 78:101355, 2020.
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Collective action in networks: Evidence from the Chilean student movement
with myself
Journal of Public Economics, 188:104220, 2020.
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Losing your dictator: Firms during political transition
with Mounu Prem
Journal of Economic Growth, 25(2):227-257, 2020.
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The privatization origins of political corporations: Evidence from the Pinochet regime
with Mounu Prem and Francisco Urzúa
Journal of Economic History, 80(2):417-456, 2020 (Arthur H. Cole prize).
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Non-economic factors in violence: Evidence from organized crime, suicides and climate in Mexico
with Ceren Baysan, Marshall Burke, Edward Miguel, and Solomon Hsiang
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 168:434-452, 2019.
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Can television bring down a dictator? Evidence from Chile's NO campaign
with Mounu Prem
Journal of Comparative Economics, 46(1):349-361, 2018.
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The value of political capital: Dictatorship collaborators as business elites
with Mounu Prem
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 155:217-230, 2018.
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Start-up nation? Slave wealth and entrepreneurship in civil war Maryland
with Guillermo Marshall and Suresh Naidu
Journal of Economic History, 77(2):373-405, 2017.
NBER working paper
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War and collective action in Sierra Leone: A comment on the use of coefficient stability
with Edward Miguel
Journal of Public Economics, 128:30-33, 2015.
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Railroads, specialization, and population growth: Evidence from the first globalization
with Andres Forero, Francisco Gallego, and Matias Tapia
Journal of Population Economics, 34:1027-1072. (Pre-doctoral work)
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Immigration and human capital: Consequences of a 19th century settlement policy
with myself
Cliometrica, 14(3):443-477. (Pre-doctoral work)
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Can land reform avoid a left turn? Evidence from Chile after the Cuban Revolution
with myself
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 13(1):31-72. (Pre-doctoral work)
Working Papers
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Efficiency of bus priority infrastructure
with Hugo Silva. September 2024
revised and resubmitted, Journal of Urban Economics
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Empowerment or indoctrination? Female training programs under dictatorship
with Mounu Prem and Cristine von Dessauer. July 2024. IZA Discussion Paper
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The political consequences of vaccines: Quasi-experimental evidence from eligibility rules
with Emilio Depetris-Chauvin. June 2024
Pre-analysis plan
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Government support in times of crisis: Evidence from Chile's road to socialism
with Mounu Prem. December 2023
Book and Chapters
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The Pinochet Shock: Radical Change and Life Under Dictatorship
Palgrave Macmillan. Book completed. Edited with Mounu Prem.
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An interdisciplinary view of Cuba
with Mounu Prem and Andrea Tesei
In: Roots of Underdevelopment II, Edited by Felipe Valencia Caicedo, Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming.
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The privatization of firms
with Mounu Prem
In: The Pinochet Shock, Edited with Mounu Prem, Palgrave Macmillan UK, forthcoming.
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The legacy of the Pinochet regime in Chile
with Mounu Prem
In: Roots of Underdevelopment I, Edited by Felipe Valencia Caicedo, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
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Local impacts of trade liberalization: Evidence from the Chilean agricultural sector
with José Ignacio Cuesta and Francisco Gallego
In: Economic Policy in Emerging-Market Economies, Edited by Ricardo Caballero and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, Central Bank of Chile, 2015.
Interdisciplinary and Policy Articles
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The impacts of COVID-19 restrictions on Quality Adjusted Life Years
with Raimundo Atal, Paula Bedregal, José A. Carrasco, Rodrigo Harrison, and Cecilia Vizcaya
PLoS ONE, 19(3), 2024.
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Pinochet's shadow: Privatisation in Chile
with myself
History Today, 73(9), September 2023.
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Reply to: Temporal displacement, adaptation and the effect of climate on suicide rates
with Marshall Burke et al.
Nature Climate Change, 10:499-501, 2020.
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¿Candidatas o espectadoras? Un análisis del impacto de la ley de cuotas
with Joaquín Galeno and Francisco Gallego
Estudios Públicos, 154:7-41, 2019.
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Higher temperatures increase suicide rates in the U.S. and Mexico
with Marshall Burke et al.
Nature Climate Change, 8(8):723-729, 2018.
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Políticas de inclusión universitaria y comportamiento estratégico en educación secundaria
with Esperanza Johnson
Estudios Públicos, 149:41-73, 2018.
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La reforma agraria Chilena
with José Ignacio Cuesta, José Díaz, Francisco Gallego, and Guillermo Marshall
Estudios Públicos, 146:7-48, 2017.
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Drug trafficking organizations and local economic activity in Mexico
with myself
PLoS ONE, 10(9), 2015.