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. NBER working paper
   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 limits of hegemony: Banks, covert actions, and foreign firms
   with Felipe Aldunate and Mounu Prem
   revise and resubmit, Journal of Development Economics
4. The intergenerational transmission of higher education: Evidence from the 1973 coup in Chile
   with María Angélica Bautista, Luis Martínez, Pablo Muñoz, and Mounu Prem. January 2023
5. The dark side of infrastructure: Roads, repression, and land in authoritarian Paraguay
   with Josepa Miquel-Florensa, Mounu Prem, and Stéphane Straub. December 2022
6. Dictatorship, higher education and social mobility
   with María Angélica Bautista, Luis Martínez, Pablo Muñoz, and Mounu Prem. November 2022
7. The political consequences of vaccines: Quasi-experimental evidence from eligibility rules
   with Emilio Depetris-Chauvin. September 2022 Pre-analysis plan
8. 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, 67(1):101-118, 2023. 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
   
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 (Arthur H. Cole prize). Online appendix
   
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.