Research
I (try to) do Development Economics
[CV] [CV of Failures] [contact: raimundo.undurraga@dii.uchile.cl]
2023-2024 Conferences (accepted papers & invitations): PUC Chile (Stgo, Nov 20, 2024); FEN U. Chile (Stgo., Sept 13, 2024); Advances with Field Experiments (LSE, Sept 5-6, 2024); EG PUC Chile (Stgo., July 2, 2024); BSE Summer Forum (Barcelona, June 10, 2024); UDP (Stgo., June 6, 2024); DII-U.Chile (Stgo, April 15, 2024); Cities & Development Workshop (JHU, April 26, 2024); HUMANS LACEA Network Meeting (World Bank, DC., March 14-15, 2024); Urbanization & Poverty Reduction Research Conference (World Bank, DC., March 7-8, 2024); MIPP-LM2C2-MIGRA Workshop on Immigration and Labor (Stgo., Jan 24, 2024); SAET (Stgo., Jan 8-10, 2024); U. Andes (Stgo., Dec 13, 2023); LACEA-LAMES (Bogotá, Nov 16-18, 2023); UAH (Stgo., Oct 30, 2023 ); Advances in Field Experiments (U. of Chicago, Sept 21-22, 2023); International Institute of Public Finance Annual Congress (Utah, Aug 14-16, 2023); RSAI Urban and Regional Economic Workshop (Bogotá, June 28-30, 2023); USACH (Stgo., May 30, 2023); U-Talca (Talca, May 9, 2023); European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association (Milan, May 5-6, 2023); ASSA Meeting (New Orleans, Jan 6-8, 2023)
Working Papers
"School Re-enrollment and Crime Prevention: The Role of Centralized Dropout Monitoring Systems", with Manuel Alcaíno
"Immigration and Slums", with Marco Gonzalez-Navarro
Media Coverage: [El Mostrador] [El Mercurio]
"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]
"Housing Externalities in Poor Neighborhoods"
Publications and Forthcoming Papers
"Bad Taste: Gender Discrimination in Consumer Lending", (with A. Montoya and E. Parrado)
Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics (forthcoming)
"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
"In-situ Upgrading or Population Relocation? Direct Impacts and Spatial Spillovers of Slum Housing Policies", 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]
"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]
Dormant:
“Inequality, Mobility, and Polarization", with Joan Esteban, Debraj Ray, and Eugenio Rojas
"Happiness Economics and Public Policy: A Contemporary Introduction" joint with Cristian Larroulet Philippi