Pablo Muñoz

Muñoz

Associate Professor

pablomh@fen.uchile.cl

Academic degrees

Doctor en Economía, Universidad de Berkeley

Economista, Universidad de Chile.

Publications Other types of contributions

Pablo Muñoz joined the Department of Economics at the School of Economics and Business in January 2024. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Universidad de Chile.

He is currently a researcher at the Millennium Nucleus Center for the Study of the Consequences and Perceptions of Immigration (MIGRA). Previously, he was a faculty member at the Brazilian School of Economics and Finance (FGV EPGE) and the Center for Applied Economics (CEA) in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Universidad de Chile.

His primary research interests are labor economics and political economy.

Area of specialization

Economía laboral y economía política

Publications

Publications in Journals with Editorial Committees

2025 / Dictatorship, Higher Education, and Social Mobility / Journal Of Historical Political Economy

2025 / The impact of standardized disease-specific healthcare coverage / Journal Of Public Economics

2025 / Managers and Public Hospital Performance / American Economic Review

2024 / Higher Education and Mortality: Legacies of an Authoritarian College Contraction / Journal Of The European Economic Association

2024 / Manager’s Productivity and Recruitment in the Public Sector / American Economic Journal-economic Policy

2024 / The Impact of Extending Employment Protection to Agency Workers on Firms / American Economic Journal-macroeconomics

2023 / The Geography of Repression and Opposition to Autocracy / American Journal Of Political Science

2023 / The intergenerational transmission of higher education: Evidence from the 1973 coup in Chile / Explorations In Economic History

2021 / Lost in transition? The persistence of dictatorship mayors / Journal Of Development Economics

2020 / Labor Market Returns to Student Loans for University: Evidence from Chile / Journal Of Labor Economics

Working papers

2025 / College Major Choice, Payoffs, and Gender Gaps

2025 / Physicians' Occupational Licensing and the Quantity-Quality Trade-Off

2023 / The Impact of Disease-Specific Healthcare Coverage

2023 / Dictatorship, Higher Education and Social Mobility

2018 / Labor Market Returns to Student Loans

2018 / The Impact of Extended Employment Protection Laws on the Demand for Temporary Agency Workers

Book Chapter

2025 / Local Governments and Regime Change

Other types of contributions

Research Awards

2023 / Public sector personnel and health outcomes

2021 / Medium and long-term consequences of youth debt in Chile. Causal estimates from a fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design

Opinion Column

2025 / ¿Qué dice la academia sobre el salario mínimo?