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

1. The dark side of infrastructure: Roads, repression, and land in authoritarian Paraguay
   with Josepa Miquel-Florensa, Mounu Prem, and Stéphane Straub.
   Economic Journal, 135:653-669, 2025. Online appendix
2. Efficiency of bus priority infrastructure
   with Hugo Silva.
   Journal of Urban Economics, 146:103751, 2025. Online appendix
3. Dictatorship, higher education, and social mobility
   with María Angélica Bautista, Luis Martínez, Pablo Muñoz, and Mounu Prem.
   Journal of Historical Political Economy, 4(4):509-545, 2025. Online appendix
4. 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
5. 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. Online appendix
6. Police violence, student protests, and educational performance
   with Mounu Prem
   Review of Economics and Statistics, 106(3):712-727, 2024. Online appendix
7. 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. Online appendix
8. 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. Online appendix
9. 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. Online appendix
10. Lost in transition? The persistence of dictatorship mayors
    with Pablo Muñoz and Mounu Prem
    Journal of Development Economics, 151:102669, 2021. Online appendix
11. 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
    
12. Distorted quality signals in school markets
    with José Ignacio Cuesta and Cristián Larroulet Philippi
    Journal of Development Economics, 147:102532, 2020. Online appendix
    
13. 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
    
14. Collective action in networks: Evidence from the Chilean student movement
    with myself
    Journal of Public Economics, 188:104220, 2020. Online appendix
15. Losing your dictator: Firms during political transition
    with Mounu Prem
    Journal of Economic Growth, 25(2):227-257, 2020. Online appendix
16. 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). Online appendix
    
17. 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
18. 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
19. The value of political capital: Dictatorship collaborators as business elites
    with Mounu Prem
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 155:217-230, 2018. Online appendix
20. 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
21. 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.
22. 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)
23. Immigration and human capital: Consequences of a 19th century settlement policy
    with myself
    Cliometrica, 14(3):443-477. (Pre-doctoral work)
24. 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

1. Transfers and political support in times of economic crisis
   with Mounu Prem. July 2025. IZA Discussion Paper
   
2. Empowerment or indoctrination? Female training programs under dictatorship
   with Mounu Prem and Cristine von Dessauer. June 2025. IZA Discussion Paper
   
3. The political consequences of vaccines: Quasi-experimental evidence from eligibility rules
   with Emilio Depetris-Chauvin. Pre-analysis plan
   revise and resubmit, Journal of Development Economics

Book and Chapters

1. The Pinochet Shock: Radical Change and Life Under Dictatorship
   Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. Edited with Mounu Prem.
2. An interdisciplinary view of Cuba
   with Mounu Prem and Andrea Tesei
   In: Roots of Underdevelopment II, Edited by Felipe Valencia Caicedo, Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming.
   
3. The privatization of firms
   with Mounu Prem
   In: The Pinochet Shock, Edited with Mounu Prem, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2025.
   
4. The legacy of the Pinochet regime in Chile
   with Mounu Prem
   In: Roots of Underdevelopment I, Edited by Felipe Valencia Caicedo, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
   
5. 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

1. 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.
2. Pinochet's shadow: Privatisation in Chile
   with myself
   History Today, 73(9), September 2023.
3. 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.
4. ¿Candidatas o espectadoras? Un análisis del impacto de la ley de cuotas
   with Joaquín Galeno and Francisco Gallego
   Estudios Públicos, 154:7-41, 2019.
5. Higher temperatures increase suicide rates in the U.S. and Mexico
   with Marshall Burke et al.
   Nature Climate Change, 8(8):723-729, 2018.
6. Políticas de inclusión universitaria y comportamiento estratégico en educación secundaria
   with Esperanza Johnson
   Estudios Públicos, 149:41-73, 2018.
7. La reforma agraria Chilena
   with José Ignacio Cuesta, José Díaz, Francisco Gallego, and Guillermo Marshall
   Estudios Públicos, 146:7-48, 2017.
8. Drug trafficking organizations and local economic activity in Mexico
   with myself
   PLoS ONE, 10(9), 2015.