Felipe González

Assistant Professor in Economics at PUC-Chile, 2017-
Ph.D. Economics UC Berkeley, 2012-2017
Research areas: Political Economy, Economic History, Public Policy
Curriculum vitae  Google Scholar  Research statement  @fagonza4

Working Papers

1. Fear of the police: Evidence from student protests
   with Mounu Prem. Revision requested, Review of Economics and Statistics.
2. Dictatorship, higher education and social mobility
   with María Angélica Bautista, Luis Martínez, Pablo Muñoz, and Mounu Prem. August 2021.
3. Does higher education reduce mortality? Evidence from a natural experiment
   with María Angélica Bautista, Luis Martínez, Pablo Muñoz, and Mounu Prem. May 2021.
4. The economics of the public option: Evidence from local pharmaceutical markets
   with Juan Pablo Atal, José Ignacio Cuesta, and Cristóbal Otero. April 2021.
5. The impact of the Women's March on the U.S. House Election
   with Magdalena Larreboure. April 2021.
6. The political consequences of vaccines: Quasi-experimental evidence from eligibility rules
   with Emilio Depetris-Chauvin. Coming soon. Pre-analysis plan
7. Making the economy scream? Nixon's Cold War and foreign firms
   with Felipe Aldunate and Mounu Prem. Coming soon.

Main Publications

1. Lost in transition? The persistence of dictatorship mayors
   with Pablo Muñoz and Mounu Prem
   Journal of Development Economics, 151:102669, 2021. Online appendix
2. 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
   
3. The geography of repression and opposition to autocracy
   with María Angélica Bautista, Luis Martínez, Pablo Muñoz, and Mounu Prem
   American Journal of Political Science, 2021. Online appendix
4. 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.
5. 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
   
6. Collective action in networks: Evidence from the Chilean student movement
   with myself
   Journal of Public Economics, 188:104220, 2020. Online appendix
7. Losing your dictator: Firms during political transition
   with Mounu Prem
   Journal of Economic Growth, 25(2):227-257, 2020. Online appendix
8. 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.
9. 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
10. 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
11. The value of political capital: Dictatorship collaborators as business elites
    with Mounu Prem
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 155:217-230, 2018. Online appendix
12. 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
13. 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.

Other Publications

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.

Interdisciplinary

• 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.
• Higher temperatures increase suicide rates in the U.S. and Mexico
  with Marshall Burke et al.
  Nature Climate Change, 8(8):723-729, 2018.
• Drug trafficking organizations and local economic activity in Mexico
  with myself
  PLoS ONE, 10(9), 2015.

Pre-doctoral

• 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.
• Immigration and human capital: Consequences of a 19th century settlement policy
  with myself
  Cliometrica, 14(3):443-477.
• 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.