Felipe González

Reader, Queen Mary University of London
Ph.D. Economics UC Berkeley
Research areas: Political Economy, Economic History, Public Policy
 
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Media Writing

• How Paraguay's dictator turned infrastructure into a tool for repression
  VoxDev, 2024.
  
• Unintended consequences: How Pinochet's policies empowered Chilean women
  IZA World of Labor, 2024.
  
• The economics of the public option and the impact of public pharmacies in Chile
  Nada Es Gratis, 2024.
  
• Police violence and protests
  Nada Es Gratis, 2022.
  
• Popular gas?
  La Tercera, 2021.
  
• Privatisation reforms can create political corporations
  LSE Business Review, 2021.
  
• What history can teach us about railroads in Chile
  El Mercurio, 2020.
  
• Pinochet's Chile shows that repression can spell the end for dictators
  LSE Latin America and Caribbean, 2018.
  
• Why did the NO win? The history behind the history
  CIPER, 2018.
  
• Mob mentality: The critical mass of networked protests
  Vox Dev, 2018.
  
• Distorted signals in education
  Vox LACEA, 2018.
  
• What happened in the runoff?
  La Tercera, 2017.
  
• Protesting for change: the student movement in Chile
  Vox LACEA, 2017.
  
• Causes and consequences of the agrarian reform
  La Tercera, 2017.
  

Selected Media Coverage

• Study reveals how the contraction of higher education during dictatorship increased mortality
  El Mostrador, 2024.
  
• Why Chile Offers a Blueprint for Affordable Healthcare Solutions
  Columbia Business School (Research Brief), 2024.
  
• Expanding public options
  AEA Research Highlights, 2024.
  
• Dictatorship and higher education in Chile
  Becker Friedman Institute (Research Brief), 2023.
  
• Will not be the same across men and women: When will the pandemic end?
  La Tercera, 2023.
  
• Annual report of the council of economic advisers
  Economic report of the US President, 2023.
  
• Pinochet's economic policy is vastly overrated
  Noahpinion, 2022.
  
• Public pharmacies are effective in decreasing prices of pharmaceuticals
  Diario Financiero, 2022.
  
• The role of activism in protecting civil rights
  Harvard Kennedy School, 2022.
  
• COVID vaccines incentivized participation in the May election
  Diario Financiero, 2021.
  
• Users of public pharmacies save up to 150 USD per year
  Las Últimas Noticias, 2021.
  
• Who won and who lost from public pharmacies
  Pauta, 2021.
  
• The market effect of public pharmacies
  The Clinic, 2021.
  
• Protest to be heard
  Contrafactual, 2019.
  
• Rising temperatures linked to increased suicide rates
  The Guardian, 2018.
  
• A New Study Links Rising Temperatures to an Increased Risk of Suicide
  Time, 2018.
  
• Climate change study ties warming temperatures to rising suicide risk
  CNN, 2018.
  
• Climate Change May Cause 26,000 More U.S. Suicides by 2050
  The Atlantic, 2018.
  
• Repression and vote
  Contrafactual, 2018.
  
• Television and the 1988 plebiscite
  Qué Pasa, 2017.
  

Television and Podcasts

• Augusto Pinochet: The coup, the torture, and the West
  PBS America, 2023.
  
• The microeconomics of the 1973 coup in Chile
  Contrafactual, 2023.
  
• The economics of the public option
  Evidence-based Public Policies, 2021.