Research
I (try to) do Development Economics
[CV] [CV of Failures] [contact: raimundo.undurraga@dii.uchile.cl]
2023-2024 Conferences (accepted papers & invitations): ASSA Meeting (New Orleans, Jan 6-8, 2023); European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association (Milan, May 5-6, 2023); U-Talca (Talca, May 9, 2023); USACH (Stgo., May 30, 2023), RSAI Urban and Regional Economic Workshop (Bogotá, June 28-30, 2023); International Institute of Public Finance Annual Congress (Utah, Aug. 14-16, 2023); Advances in Field Experiments (U. of Chicago, Sept. 21-22, 2023), UAH (Stgo., Oct. 30, 2023 ), LACEA-LAMES (Bogotá, Nov. 16-18, 2023); U. Andes (Stgo., Dec 13, 2023); SAET (Stgo., Jan. 8-10, 2024), MIPP-LM2C2-MIGRA Workshop on Immigration and Labor (Stgo., Jan. 24, 2024); Urbanization & Poverty Reduction Research Conference (World Bank, DC., March 7-8, 2024); HUMANS LACEA Network Meeting (World Bank, DC., March 14-15, 2024); Cities & Development Workshop (JHU, April 26, 2024); DII-U.Chile (Stgo, April 15, 2024); UDP (Stgo., June 6, 2024); BSE Summer Forum (Barcelona, June 10, 2024); EG PUC Chile (Stgo., June 25, 2024); FEN U. Chile (Stgo., Sept, 13, 2024)
Working Papers
"How Managers Can Use Purchaser Performance Information to Improve Procurement Efficiency", with P. Celhay, P. Gertler, and M. Olivares. NBER Working Paper No. 32141 [Prediction from Experts]
"Immigration and Slums", with Marco Gonzalez-Navarro
Media Coverage: [El Mostrador] [El Mercurio]
"Bad Taste: Gender Discrimination in Consumer Lending", with A. Montoya and E. Parrado [R&R]
Media Coverage: [Financial Times] [El País] [El Mercurio] [VoxDev]
"Housing Externalities in Poor Neighborhoods"
Publications and Forthcoming Papers
"Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions" (with N. Ajzenman and P. Domínguez)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Vol. 15, No. 4, October 2023, pp. 142-76
"Location Preferences and Slums Formation: Evidence from a Panel of Residence Histories" (with P. Celhay)
Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 97, Nov. 2022
"Immigration and Labor Market (Mis)Perceptions" (with N. Ajzenman and P. Domínguez)
American Economic Association Papers & Proceedings, Vol. 112, May 2022, pp. 402-08
“Aspiration Adaptation in Resource-Constrained Environments" (with S. Galiani and P. Gertler)
Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 123, May 2021
“The Half Life of Happiness: Hedonic Adaptation in the Subjective Well-being of Poor Slum Dwellers to a Large Improvement in Housing" (with S. Galiani and P. Gertler)
Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 16, Issue 4, Aug. 2018, pp. 1189–1233
“Shelter from the Storm: Upgrading Housing Infrastructure in Latin American Slums" (with S. Galiani, P. Gertler, R.Cooper, S.Martinez, and A.Ross)
Journal of Urban Economics, Vol 98, March 2017, pp. 187-213
In Progress
"Aspirations and Conflict: The Role of Integration Policies", with Sofía Correa
"Aspirations, Frustrations, and Conflict", with Sofía Correa and Piero Zanocco
"The Lifecycle of Slums", with Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Paul J. Gertler, and Joaquín Urrego
"Information Frictions in Mortgage Refinancing", with Vivek Bhattacharya, Ignacio Cuesta, Gastón Illanes, and Anita Montoya [Pre-Analysis Plan]
"Information Frictions and School Dropout", with Manuel Alcaino
"Economic and Financial Impacts of COVID-19 and Stimulus Packages on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Latin America", with Paul J. Gertler, Sean Higgins, Anita Montoya and Eric Parrado [Pre-Analysis Plan]
Books
"Happiness Economics and Public Policy: A Contemporary Introduction" joint with Cristian Larroulet Philippi (in preparation for Springer)
Dormant:
“Inequality, Mobility, and Polarization", with Joan Esteban, Debraj Ray, and Eugenio Rojas