Felipe González

Professor of Economics, King's College 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. Empowerment or indoctrination? Female training programs under dictatorship
    with Mounu Prem and Cristine von Dessauer.
    Journal of Economic History, forthcoming.
  2. 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
  3. Efficiency of bus priority infrastructure
    with Hugo Silva.
    Journal of Urban Economics, 146:103751, 2025.     Online appendix
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. The economics of the public option: Evidence from local pharmaceutical markets
    with Juan Pablo Atal, José Ignacio Cuesta, and Cristóbal Otero.
    American Economic Review, 114(3):615–644, 2024.     Online appendix
  7. Police violence, student protests, and educational performance
    with Mounu Prem.
    Review of Economics and Statistics, 106(3):712–727, 2024.     Online appendix
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. Lost in transition? The persistence of dictatorship mayors
    with Pablo Muñoz and Mounu Prem.
    Journal of Development Economics, 151:102669, 2021.     Online appendix
  12. 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
  13. Distorted quality signals in school markets
    with José Ignacio Cuesta and Cristián Larroulet Philippi.
    Journal of Development Economics, 147:102532, 2020.     Online appendix
  14. 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
  15. Collective action in networks: Evidence from the Chilean student movement
    with myself.
    Journal of Public Economics, 188:104220, 2020.     Online appendix
  16. Losing your dictator: Firms during political transition
    with Mounu Prem.
    Journal of Economic Growth, 25(2):227–257, 2020.     Online appendix
  17. 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
  18. Non-economic factors in violence: Evidence from organized crime, suicides and climate in Mexico
    with Ceren Baysan et al.
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 168:434–452, 2019.     Online appendix
  19. 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
  20. The value of political capital: Dictatorship collaborators as business elites
    with Mounu Prem.
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 155:217–230, 2018.     Online appendix
  21. 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.     Online appendix
  22. War and collective action in Sierra Leone: A comment on the use of coefficient stability approaches
    with Edward Miguel.
    Journal of Public Economics, 128:30–33, 2015.
  23. Railroads, specialization, and population growth: Evidence from the first globalization
    with Andres Forero et al.
    Journal of Population Economics, 34:1027–1072.
  24. Immigration and human capital: Consequences of a nineteenth century settlement policy
    with myself.
    Cliometrica, 14(3):443–477.
  25. 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.

Working Papers

  1. Transfers and political support in times of economic crisis
    with Mounu Prem. July 2025.
  2. 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
  3. When the state takes over: Nationalization, firm performance, and political backlash
    with Mounu Prem. January 2026.

Book and Chapters

  1. The Pinochet Shock
    Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. Edited with Mounu Prem.
  2. An interdisciplinary view of Cuba
    with Mounu Prem and Andrea Tesei.
    In: Roots of Underdevelopment II, forthcoming.
  3. The privatization of firms
    with Mounu Prem.
    In: The Pinochet Shock, 2025.
  4. The legacy of the Pinochet regime in Chile
    with Mounu Prem.
    In: Roots of Underdevelopment I, 2023.
  5. Local impacts of trade liberalization
    with José Ignacio Cuesta and Francisco Gallego.
    Economic Policy in Emerging-Market Economies, 2015.

Interdisciplinary and Policy Articles

  1. The impacts of COVID-19 restrictions on QALYs
    with Raimundo Atal et al.
    PLoS ONE, 19(3), 2024.
  2. Pinochet's shadow
    with myself.
    History Today, 73(9), 2023.
  3. Reply to: Temporal displacement
    with Marshall Burke et al.
    Nature Climate Change, 10:499–501, 2020.
  4. ¿Candidatas o espectadoras?
    with Joaquín Galeno and Francisco Gallego.
    Estudios Públicos, 154, 2019.
  5. Higher temperatures increase suicide rates
    with Marshall Burke et al.
    Nature Climate Change, 8(8), 2018.
  6. Políticas de inclusión universitaria
    with Esperanza Johnson.
    Estudios Públicos, 149, 2018.
  7. La reforma agraria Chilena
    with José Ignacio Cuesta et al.
    Estudios Públicos, 146, 2017.
  8. Drug trafficking organizations and local economic activity
    with myself.
    PLoS ONE, 10(9), 2015.