Pablo Muñoz Henríquez

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Chile. I work mainly on topics in labor, health, and political economics.

I received a Ph.D. in Economics from UC Berkeley in 2020. Here is my CV and Google Scholar profile. You can contact me at pablomh@uchile.cl.

Affiliations:

Brazilian School of Economics and Finance (FGV EPGE)

Market Imperfections and Public Policy Institute (MIPP)

Nucleus on Immigration Consequences and Perceptions (MIGRA)

Working papers

The Impact of Standardized Disease-Specific Healthcare Coverage

with F. Menares

Managers and Public Hospital Performance

with C. Otero

Revision requested at the American Economic Review

Dictatorship, Higher Education, and Social Mobility

with M.A. Bautista, F. González, L. Martínez and M. Prem

Conditionally accepted at the Journal of Historical Political Economy

Published and accepted work

Managers' Productivity and Recruitment in the Public Sector [publisher]

with M. Prem

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, forthcoming

Higher Education and Mortality: Legacies of an Authoritarian College Contraction [publisher]

with F. González, L. Martínez and M. Prem

Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming

The Impact of Extending Employment Protection to Agency Workers on Firms [publisher]

with A. Micco

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2024

The Intergenerational Transmission of Higher Education: Evidence from the 1973 Coup in Chile [publisher]

with M.A. Bautista, F. González, L. Martínez and M. Prem

Explorations in Economic History, 2023

The Geography of Repression and Opposition to Autocracy [publisher]

with M.A. Bautista, F. González, L. Martínez and M. Prem

American Journal of Political Science, 2023

Lost in Transition? The Persistence of Dictatorship Mayors [publisher]

with F. González and M. Prem

Journal of Development Economics, 2021

Labor Market Returns to Student Loans for University: Evidence from Chile [publisher]

with A. Bucarey and D. Contreras

Journal of Labor Economics, 2020

Selected works in progress

Occupational Licensing in Global Labor Markets: Evidence from Physicians

with J.P. Atal, T. Larroucau, and C. Otero

Returns to Fields of Study and the Gender Earnings Gap

with A. Bucarey, C. Campos, and D. Contreras

Local Governments. Book Chapter in "The Pinochet Shock: Radical Change and Life under Dictatorship"

Book project, edited by F. González and M. Prem

Other publications

The Effect of Elite Public High Schools: The Case of Instituto Nacional [publisher]

with A. Bucarey, M. Jorquera, and S. Urzúa

Estudios Públicos, 2014

Inequality and Academic Achievement in Chile [publisher]

with A. Redondo

CEPAL Review, 2013