Rafael Carranza
Assistant Professor,
School of Government, PUC Chile
rafael.carranza [at] uc.cl
Welcome!
I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Government at PUC Chile (Sitio en español).
My work explores the causes and consequences of economic inequality, with a focus on three main areas:
The measurement of income and wealth inequality.
The intergenerational transmission of economic advantage and disadvantage.
The distributional dimension of socioeconomic dynamics.
I often approach these topics - particularly the latter two - from an interdisciplinary perspective. You can find out more about my research here.
I hold a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to that, I obtained an MRes in Economics at University College London and an MSc in Economics at Universidad de Chile. Before my current position, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford. Updated CV.
You can contact me at rafael.carranza [at] uc.cl.
Other affiliations:
Associate at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, University of Oxford.
Visiting Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute, LSE.
Fellow at the World Inequality Database (WID.world).
Recent updates
What makes elites more or less egalitarian? Variations in attitudes towards inequality within the economic, political and cultural elites in Chile Get access Arrow (with Dante Contreras and Gabriel Otero)
Socio-Economic Review
This article investigates how the type of elite to which a person belongs and their intergenerational contextual experiences are associated with attitudes towards inequality among elite individuals. We propose that membership of the economic elite and access to private schools, higher education business schools and affluent residential areas may contribute to the development of views that favour inequality. Using unique survey data collected in 2018 from a sample of 416 individuals belonging to Chile’s economic, political and cultural elites, we construct an additive score to measure attitudes towards inequality. Results of our regression analyses indicate that individuals belonging to the economic and political elite are more tolerant of inequality than members of the cultural elite. Moreover, intergenerational experiences at both private schools and higher education business schools significantly contribute to the formation of attitudes that favour inequality. These contextual experiences also relate to significant attitudinal variations within all elite groups.