 Current Position: Research Economist at the Department of Research at the Inter-American Development Bank.
I got a Ph.D in Public Policy at the University
of California, Berkeley, and previously a M.P.P. at the Goldman School of Public Policy. I have a M.A
degree in Sociology,
and I also got my B.Sc in Civil
Engineering with a professional degree in Industrial and Transportation Engineering at PUC-Chile.
Prior to Berkeley, I was director of the
NGO Un Techo para Chile (now Techo).
I use applied econometrics methods combined with different sources of large administrative databases to address important questions in public policy. My research interests are Program Evaluation, Economics of Crime and Education, Labor Economics, and Social Policy that impact poverty and social inequality in general. You can download my CV here. Contact Info Name: Patricio Domínguez Address: 1300 New York Ave NW, Washington, DC 20577 Phone: +1 (510) - 590 - 1896 E-mail: patriciodo@iadb.org; pdominguez@berkeley.edu
Current Research "How Offenders and Victims Interact: A Case-study from a Public Transportation Reform" [Under review] Presented at 9th Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime (UPenn), U.Chicago; GSPP at Berkeley [Slides]
"Crime-Time" (with Kenzo Asahi) Presented at AL CAPONE 2017, America Latina Crime and Policy Network; Econ Devlunch at Berkeley; ASC 2016 [Slides] We study the effect of ambient light on crime. We take advantage of Daylight Saving Time policy (DST) which imposes exogenous variations in daylight exposure at specific hours of the day. We use a rich administrative database managed by the Chilean national police which is a very centralized agency and collects detailed information regarding each crime incident. We find a significant 20% decrease in property crimes associated to the DST transition that increases in one hour the amount of sunlight for the 7-9pm period. Consistently we find a similar increase in crime when DST transition sharply decreases the daylight exposure for the same period of the day. Our findings are also consistent under two strategies that rely on different identification assumptions: sharp regression discontinuity design and a difference-in-differences regression analysis. When we analyze heterogenous responses for different crime categories our results suggest that most of the variation is driven by robbery which decreases 30\% during evening hours. Importantly, we detect no significant response induced by DST associated with a particular demand-side response such as the time commuting pattern of the population, and we find no substantial short-term displacement for a particular period of the day. "Long-Term Gains from Longer School Days" (with Krista Ruffini) [Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Human Resources] Presented at the Berkeley Econ Development Lunch, Berkeley GSPP Seminar and the 2018 Association for Educational Finance Policy Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon IRLE Berkeley Working paper #103-18 
"The Role of the Cost of Crime Literature in Bridging the Gap between Social Science Research and Policy Making" (with Steven Raphael)
Commentaries: Daniel Nagin, Steve Aos, Dan A. Black, Robert M. Solow and Lowell J. Taylor, Charles F. Manski, Michael Tonry, Brandon C. Welsh and David P. Farrington"Identification and Characterization of Vulnerable groups: Some elements to consider risk" (with C.Rodríguez, E.Undurraga and J.R.Zubizarreta).
Works in Progress
"The effect of air pollution on student absenteeism" (with Krista Ruffini) "The impact of pretrial detention on health-related outcomes" (with Nicolas Grau, Adrian Mundt, and Jorge Rivera). "Crime displacement and the geographical distribution of criminal activity" (with Kenzo Asahi) [draft available upon request]
"Can schools reduce the indigenous test score gap? Analysis during a school finance reform in Chile" [draft available upon request]
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