Felipe González

Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London
Ph.D. Economics UC Berkeley
Research areas: Political Economy, Economic History, Public Policy
Curriculum vitae  Google Scholar  @fagonza4

Working Papers

  1. The economics of the public option: Evidence from local pharmaceutical markets
    with Juan Pablo Atal, José Ignacio Cuesta, and Cristóbal Otero
    revise and resubmit, American Economic Review
  2. Does higher education reduce mortality? Evidence from a natural experiment
    with Luis Martínez, Pablo Muñoz, and Mounu Prem
    revise and resubmit, Journal of the European Economic Association
  3. The intergenerational effects of authoritarianism
    with María Angélica Bautista, Luis Martínez, Pablo Muñoz, and Mounu Prem. September 2022
  4. The political consequences of vaccines: Quasi-experimental evidence from eligibility rules
    with Emilio Depetris-Chauvin. September 2022 Pre-analysis plan
  5. Dictatorship, higher education and social mobility
    with María Angélica Bautista, Luis Martínez, Pablo Muñoz, and Mounu Prem. June 2022
  6. The limits of hegemony: Banks, covert actions, and foreign firms
    with Felipe Aldunate and Mounu Prem. April 2022
  7. The impact of the Women's March on the U.S. House Election
    with Magdalena Larreboure. November 2021

Journal Articles

  1. Police violence, student protests, and educational performance
    with Mounu Prem
    Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
  2. The geography of repression and opposition to autocracy
    with María Angélica Bautista, Luis Martínez, Pablo Muñoz, and Mounu Prem
    American Journal of Political Science, forthcoming. Online appendix
  3. Lost in transition? The persistence of dictatorship mayors
    with Pablo Muñoz and Mounu Prem
    Journal of Development Economics, 151:102669, 2021. Online appendix
  4. Collective action and policy implementation: Evidence from Salvador Allende's expropriations
    with Felipe Vial
    Journal of Economic History, 81(2):405-440, 2021. Online appendix
  5. Distorted quality signals in school markets
    with José Ignacio Cuesta and Cristián Larroulet Philippi
    Journal of Development Economics, 147:102532, 2020. Online appendix
    Nominated to the Juan Luis Londoño prize.
  6. 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. Online appendix
  7. Collective action in networks: Evidence from the Chilean student movement
    with myself
    Journal of Public Economics, 188:104220, 2020. Online appendix
  8. Losing your dictator: Firms during political transition
    with Mounu Prem
    Journal of Economic Growth, 25(2):227-257, 2020. Online appendix
  9. 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. Online appendix
    Winner of the Arthur H. Cole prize.
  10. 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.
  11. 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. Online appendix
  12. Can television bring down a dictator? Evidence from Chile's NO campaign
    with Mounu Prem
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 46(1):349-361, 2018. Online appendix
  13. The value of political capital: Dictatorship collaborators as business elites
    with Mounu Prem
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 155:217-230, 2018. Online appendix
  14. Higher temperatures increase suicide rates in the U.S. and Mexico
    with Marshall Burke et al.
    Nature Climate Change, 8(8):723-729, 2018.
  15. 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  Online appendix
  16. 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.
  17. Drug trafficking organizations and local economic activity in Mexico
    with myself
    PLoS ONE, 10(9), 2015.
  18. 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)
  19. Immigration and human capital: Consequences of a 19th century settlement policy
    with myself
    Cliometrica, 14(3):443-477. (Pre-doctoral work)
  20. 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)

Book chapters

  • The legacy of the Pinochet regime
    with Mounu Prem
    In: Roots of Underdevelopment, forthcoming.
  • 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, 2015.