Working Papers
Social Shocks and the Emergence of Informal Settlements
Under review (with Adam Chilton, Patricio Domínguez & Eduardo A. Undurraga)
Unraveling Anti-Establishment Preferences
Under review (with Bernardo Lara & Samuel Tschorne)
Chile's Timid Turn to Land Policy Instrumentos for Affordable Housing: Possibilities and Tensions
In preparation for the Routledge Handbook on Land Policies for Affordable Housing
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Academic Publications in English
Wealth, Homeownership, and Land Use Regulatory Changes
Urban Studies (forthcoming) (with Hugo E. Silva & Kenzo Asahi)
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When Owning a Home Is Not Enough: The Promises and Pitfalls of Subsidized Homeownership in Chile
Chapter in Routledge Handbook on Precarious Housing, edited by A. Friendly & A. Pimentel (forthcoming)
[Book] [SSRN]
Compliance at the Margins of the Law: Evidence from Informal Settlements during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Cities 169: 106589 (2026) (with Roxana Casas, Catalina Rufs, Eduardo Valenzuela & Eduardo A. Undurraga)
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Re-imagining Housing Provision from Markets to Welfare
German Law Journal 25(9): 1525–44 (2024) (with Irina Domurath)
[Journal]
"It Now Exists": The Birth of the Chilean Professional Legal Academia in the Wake of Neoliberalism
Law & Social Inquiry 48(3): 971–98 (2023) (with Javier Wilenmann & Samuel Tschorne)
[Journal]
Property Rights and Market Behavior in the Low-Income Housing Sector: Evidence from Chile
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 19(4): 1148–78 (2022) (with Pablo A. Celhay)
[Journal]
Employment Loss in Informal Settlements during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Chile
Journal of Urban Health 98(5) (2021) (with Patricio Domínguez, Eduardo A. Undurraga & Eduardo Valenzuela)
[Journal] [SSRN]
The Function and Credibility of Urban Slums: Evidence on Informal Settlements and Affordable Housing in Chile
Cities 99: 102605 (2020) (with Pablo A. Celhay)
[Journal] [SSRN]
Law and Inclusive Urban Development: Lessons from Chile's Enabling Markets Housing Policy Regime
American Journal of Comparative Law 67(3): 587–636 (2019)
[Journal] [SSRN]
Media Representations of the Inter-American System of Human Rights
Chapter in Law and Policy in Latin America: Transforming Courts, Institutions, and Rights, Palgrave Macmillan, 57–73 (2017) (with Rolando García & Lawrence M. Friedman)
[Book]
The Political Economy of Land Use Governance in Santiago, Chile and Its Implications for Class-Based Segregation
The Urban Lawyer 47(1): 119–64 (2015)
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Academic Publications in Spanish
El dilema constitucional: Una aproximación institucional al proceso constituyente [The Constitutional Dilemma: An Institutional Approach to the Constitution-Making Process]
Fondo de Cultura Económica (2023) (co-edited with G. Jiménez & P. Marshall)
La reformulación constitucional de los derechos sociales [The Constitutional Restatement of Social Rights]
Chapter in El dilema constitucional, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 183–210 (2023)
Derecho urbanístico y exclusión social [Urban Law and Social Exclusion]
Revista Chilena de Derecho 48(1): 107–31 (2021) (with Nicolás Bucarey)
[Journal]
Derecho a la vivienda [Right to Housing]
Chapter in Curso de derechos fundamentales: Parte especial, edited by P. Contreras & C. Salgado, Tirant lo Blanch, 857–87 (2020)
[Academia]
Derecho a la vivienda, integración urbana y minimalismo regulatorio en Chile [Right to Housing, Urban Integration, and Regulatory Minimalism in Chile]
Chapter in La desigualdad: SELA 2015, Libraria, 262–81 (2016)
[Academia]
Vivienda social y segregación residencial: Una aproximación desde la teoría institucional [Social Housing and Residential Segregation: An Institutional Theory Approach]
Chapter in Sociología del derecho en Chile: Libro homenaje a Edmundo Fuenzalida, Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado (2015)
[Academia]
Policy Documents in Spanish
Ley de Inclusión y reglas de apertura de establecimientos escolares con financiamiento público: Diagnóstico y propuestas de mejora [The School Inclusion Act and Rules for Opening Publicly Funded Schools]
Propuestas para Chile: Concurso de Políticas Públicas 2024, Centro de Políticas Públicas UC, 168–203 (2025) (with Alejandro Carrasco & Gabriel Gutiérrez)
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Ley de Arriendo: Propuestas para una política pública que garantice la seguridad de la tenencia [Rental Law: Proposals for a Public Policy That Guarantees Security of Tenure]
Propuestas para Chile: Concurso de Políticas Públicas 2023, Centro de Políticas Públicas UC, 159–94 (2024) (with F. Bogolasky, Felipe Link & A. Marín)
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Arriendo asequible en Chile: Propuestas para implementar un sistema de vivienda basado en el bienestar social [Affordable Rental Housing in Chile]
Temas de la Agenda Pública 16(146): 1–16, Centro de Políticas Públicas UC (2021) (with Luis Eduardo Bresciani, Felipe Link, Alejandra Rasse & Javier Ruiz-Tagle)
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Hacia un modelo integral de regeneración urbano-habitacional con densificación en barrios tipo 9x18 [Toward an Integrated Model of Urban and Housing Regeneration with Densification in 9x18 Neighborhoods]
Propuestas para Chile: Concurso de Políticas Públicas 2019, Centro de Políticas Públicas UC, 319–51 (2020) (with Rodrigo Tapia, Consuelo Araos, Rosanna Forray & Sebastián Muñoz)
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Integración social y urbana: Aportes críticos para la nueva ley [Social and Urban Integration: Critical Contributions to the New Law]
Observatorio Legislativo 39, Centro de Políticas Públicas UC (2019) (with L. E. Bresciani, F. Link, P. Mora, A. Rasse, J. Ruiz-Tagle & F. Sabatini)
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