alejandro corvalan

WORKING PAPERS 

• "Endogenous Legislatures". Revise and Resubmit at Journal of the European Economic Association

• "Are legislatures fair? Positive and Normative Apportionment Rule"

• "Political budget cycles Beyond Anual Data", with P.Cox and G.Smith. Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Public Economics 

• "Intergovernmental Transfers in Times of Protest", with P. Cayul. 

• "Can Inequality Define Economic Classes?" arxiv.org/abs/2512.23523 (old version) 

• "The Distributional Consequences of Paid-Priority Queues"  arXiv:2512.10594 

• "False Allegations: Partial Identification under Imperfect Legal Screening"

PUBLICATIONS

POLITICAL ECONOMY/ DEMOCRACY/ PARTICIPATION

• "All That Legislates Is Not Gold: Representation and Redistribution in Chile", with C.Contreras. European Journal of Political Economy, 93: 102818 (2026) 

• "Indigenous Representation and Participation: the case of Chilean Mapuche", with P. Cayul. Electoral Studies, 90: 1028198 (2024).

• "The Political Class and Redistributive Policies", with P.Querubin and S.Vicente. Journal of the European Economic Association, 18(1): 1-48 (2020).

• "Indirect Political Budget Cycles: Evidence from Chilean Municipalities", with P.Cox and R.Osorio, Journal of Development Economics, 133: 1- 14 (2018).

• The Impact of Procedural Information Costs on Voting: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Chile, with P.Cox, Political Behavior, 40: 3-19 (2018).

• Bounding Causal Effects in an Ecological Inference Problem: the Chilean Electoral Reform, with E.Melo, M.Shum and B.Sherman, Political Science Research and Methods, 5(3): 555-565 (2017).

• Income and Democracy: Evidence from Nonlinear Estimations, with Benhabib J. and M.Spiegel, Economics Letters, 118(3): 489-492 (2013).

• Do Superpower Interventions have Short and Long Consequences for Democracy?, with Berger D., W.Easterly and S.Satyanath, Journal of Comparative Economics, 41(1): 22-34 (2013).

• Class-Biased Electoral Participation: the Youth Vote in Chile, with P.Cox, Latin American Politics and Society, 55(3): 47-68 (2013).

INEQUALITY/DISTRIBUTION/CLASSES

• "Inequality, Crime and Private Protection", with M.Pazzona. Economics Letters, 210: 110184 (2022).

• "How to Rank Rankings? Group Performance in Multiple-Prize Contests". Social Choice and Welfare, 51(2): 361-380 (2018).

• "Estimating Intergenerational Mobility with Grouped Data (A Critique of Clark's "The Son also Rises")", with F. Torche, Sociological Methods and Research, 47(4): 787-811 (2018).

• "The Impact of a Marginal Subsidy on Gini Indices", Review of Income and Wealth, 60(3): 596-603 (2014).

CONFLICT/CRIME

• "Does Local Representation Reduce Self-Determination Conflict?". Journal of Conflict Resolution, forthcoming (2024).

• "Introducing MACEDA: New micro-data on an indigenous self-determination conflict", with P.Cayul, D.Jaimovich and M.Pazzona. Journal of Peace Research, 59(6): 903-912 (2022).

• "Persistent Commodity Shocks and Transitory Crime Effects", with M.Pazzona, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 158: 110-127 (2019).

• "Segregation and Conflict: an Empirical Analysis", with M.Vargas, Journal of Development Economics, 116: 212-222 (2015).

OTHERS

• "Olympic Games: No Legacy for Sports", with J.L.Contreras, Economics Letters, 122: 268-271 (2014).

• "Seasonality of Birthweight in Chile: Environmental and Socioeconomic Factors", with F. Torche, Annals of Epidemiology 20: 818-826 (2010).

WORK IN PROGRESS

• "The Background–Money–Behaviour (BMB): Dataset on U.S. Members of Congress.", with J.Auerbach, F. Gajardo, and M.Pazzona

• "The persistent effects of community fractionalization", with D.Jaimovich and F. Jordan 

• "The Age of Voting", with D.Lamich

GRANTS

• Millennium Initiative Grant: Institute for Research in Market Imperfections and Public Policy. Research Associate (2015-2024)

• Chilean Gov. Research Grant Fondecyt 1241795: "Legislative Apportionment Rule: Evolution and Consequences ". PI (2024-2027)

• Chilean Gov. Research Grant Fondecyt 1201737: "Self-determination Conflicts and Electoral Politics". PI (2020-2023)

• Chilean Gov. Research Grant Fondecyt 1161719: "Suffrage Extension under Weak Institutions". PI (2016-2019)

• Chilean Gov. Research Grant Fondecyt Initiation 11121307: "Redistribution Policies and Candidate Wealth". PI (2012-2014)