Alejandro Corvalan
Biographic Data
| ID | 288341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alejandro Corvalan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alejandro |
| FAMILY NAME | Corvalan |
| SIGNATURE | CORVALAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Diego Portales University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9281-8018 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
All that legislates is not gold: Representation and redistribution in Chile
El conflicto de autodeterminación entre el Estado de Chile y el pueblo Mapuche: Una descripción usando microdatos georreferenciados de Maceda (1990-2021)
Los conflictos de autodeterminación son prevalentes en diferentes sociedades. Sin embargo, sólo recientemente se han analizado empíricamente, en particular cuando estos son de relativa baja intensidad e involucran estrategias no violentas. El presente artículo describe la más reciente versión de MACEDA, una base georreferenciada de microdatos de eventos del conflicto de autodeterminación entre el Estado de Chile y el pueblo Mapuche entre 1990 y 2…
Does Local Representation Reduce Self-Determination Conflict
There is ample evidence that the political exclusion of minorities from state power increases the risk of conflict. Nevertheless, do these same results apply to local representation? I explore this question using the success in mayoral elections of the Chilean Mapuche, a deprived indigenous minority in a longstanding conflict against the Chilean state. Combining a novel database on conflict and a surname strategy to single out Mapuche mayors, pan…
Indigenous representation and participation: The case of the Chilean Mapuche
According to the empowerment hypothesis, minority politicians encourage minority participation. The relationship between representation and participation has been extensively analyzed for several ethnic minorities and women, but there are no studies for indigenous populations in Latin America. This paper evaluates the link between descriptive representation and electoral registration of Mapuche, a deprived indigenous minority from the South of Ch…
Consulta Araucanía: El uso oportunista de los mecanismos de democracia directa
Los mecanismos de democracia directa han aumentado su presencia en todo el mundo. Junto a los beneficios que conlleva la participación ciudadana, estos mecanismos han reabierto la posibilidad de usar elecciones con propósitos movilizadores. Este artículo revisa el uso oportunista de la Consulta Araucanía, llevada a cabo en el sur de Chile el año 2021. Esta consulta ciudadana preguntó acerca de una posible extensión de la militarización en el cont…
Introducing Maceda: New micro-data on an indigenous self-determination conflict
This article introduces MACEDA, a micro-level dataset on the self-determination (SD) conflict between the Chilean state and the indigenous Mapuche. Although SD disputes are one of the most common conflicts in the world, and indigenous movements represent about 40% of all SD movements, this is the first micro-dataset focused on an indigenous SD conflict. MACEDA covers the period 1990-2016, including more than 2,600 events collected from local medi…
Indirect political budget cycles: Evidence from Chilean municipalities
The Impact of Procedural Information Costs on Voting: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Chile
Estimating Intergenerational Mobility With Grouped Data: A Critique of Clark’s the Son Also Rises
This article distinguishes three measures of intergenerational economic mobility that emerge when the population is divided into groups: overall individual mobility, within-group mobility, and between-group mobility. We clarify their properties and the relationship between them. We then evaluate Clark's use of surname between-group persistence as a preferred measure of intergenerational mobility in the book The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the Hi…
Bounding Causal Effects in Ecological Inference Problems
This note illustrates a new method for making causal inferences with ecological data. We show how to combine aggregate outcomes with individual demographics from separate data sources to make causal inferences about individual behavior. In addressing such problems, even under the selection on observables assumption often made in the treatment effects literature, it is not possible to identify causal effects of interest. However, recent results fr…
Segregation and conflict: An empirical analysis
Class-Biased Electoral Participation: The Youth Vote in Chile
There is no other country where the division between the old and young electorate is as striking as in Chile. For older voters, turnout exceeded, on average, 90 percent in 2009; for those aged less than 30, it fell below 30 percent. Using individual survey data from 2006, 2008, and 2010, this article studies the current socioeconomic composition of the Chilean young electorate. First, it shows that the young electorate is class-biased. Income is …
La convergencia de las regiones chilenas, 1960-2009
En el presente artículo se analizan cincuenta años de convergencia económica para las regiones de Chile, en un contexto de cambios políticos radicales asociados a profundas transformaciones económicas. Para el análisis de convergencia del PIB per cápita se consideraron los sub períodos 1960-1973, 1973-1989 y 1989-2009, mientras que para la variable productividad se consideraron los sub períodos 1976-1989 y 1989-2009. El análisis se llevó a cabo e…
Reestablishing the Income-Democracy Nexus
A number of recent empirical studies have cast doubt on the "modernization theory" of democratization, which posits that increases in income are conducive to increases in democracy levels. This doubt stems mainly from the fact that while a strong positive correlation exists between income and democracy levels, the relationship disappears when one controls for country fixed effects. This raises the possibility that the correlation in the data refl…
Baseline assessment of prevalence and geographical distribution of HPV types in Chile using self-collected vaginal samples
Self-obtained vaginal sampling is adequate for monitoring HPV in the community, for identifying high-risk areas, and for surveying the long term impact of interventions
Indirect political budget cycles: Evidence from Chilean municipalities
Class-Biased Electoral Participation: The Youth Vote in Chile
There is no other country where the division between the old and young electorate is as striking as in Chile. For older voters, turnout exceeded, on average, 90 percent in 2009; for those aged less than 30, it fell below 30 percent. Using individual survey data from 2006, 2008, and 2010, this article studies the current socioeconomic composition of the Chilean young electorate. First, it shows that the young electorate is class-biased. Income is …
Estimating Intergenerational Mobility With Grouped Data: A Critique of Clark’s the Son Also Rises
This article distinguishes three measures of intergenerational economic mobility that emerge when the population is divided into groups: overall individual mobility, within-group mobility, and between-group mobility. We clarify their properties and the relationship between them. We then evaluate Clark's use of surname between-group persistence as a preferred measure of intergenerational mobility in the book The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the Hi…
Segregation and conflict: An empirical analysis
The Impact of Procedural Information Costs on Voting: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Chile
Introducing Maceda: New micro-data on an indigenous self-determination conflict
This article introduces MACEDA, a micro-level dataset on the self-determination (SD) conflict between the Chilean state and the indigenous Mapuche. Although SD disputes are one of the most common conflicts in the world, and indigenous movements represent about 40% of all SD movements, this is the first micro-dataset focused on an indigenous SD conflict. MACEDA covers the period 1990-2016, including more than 2,600 events collected from local medi…
Indigenous representation and participation: The case of the Chilean Mapuche
According to the empowerment hypothesis, minority politicians encourage minority participation. The relationship between representation and participation has been extensively analyzed for several ethnic minorities and women, but there are no studies for indigenous populations in Latin America. This paper evaluates the link between descriptive representation and electoral registration of Mapuche, a deprived indigenous minority from the South of Ch…
Bounding Causal Effects in Ecological Inference Problems
This note illustrates a new method for making causal inferences with ecological data. We show how to combine aggregate outcomes with individual demographics from separate data sources to make causal inferences about individual behavior. In addressing such problems, even under the selection on observables assumption often made in the treatment effects literature, it is not possible to identify causal effects of interest. However, recent results fr…
Baseline assessment of prevalence and geographical distribution of HPV types in Chile using self-collected vaginal samples
Self-obtained vaginal sampling is adequate for monitoring HPV in the community, for identifying high-risk areas, and for surveying the long term impact of interventions
Reestablishing the Income-Democracy Nexus
A number of recent empirical studies have cast doubt on the "modernization theory" of democratization, which posits that increases in income are conducive to increases in democracy levels. This doubt stems mainly from the fact that while a strong positive correlation exists between income and democracy levels, the relationship disappears when one controls for country fixed effects. This raises the possibility that the correlation in the data refl…
La convergencia de las regiones chilenas, 1960-2009
En el presente artículo se analizan cincuenta años de convergencia económica para las regiones de Chile, en un contexto de cambios políticos radicales asociados a profundas transformaciones económicas. Para el análisis de convergencia del PIB per cápita se consideraron los sub períodos 1960-1973, 1973-1989 y 1989-2009, mientras que para la variable productividad se consideraron los sub períodos 1976-1989 y 1989-2009. El análisis se llevó a cabo e…
Class-Biased Electoral Participation: The Youth Vote in Chile
There is no other country where the division between the old and young electorate is as striking as in Chile. For older voters, turnout exceeded, on average, 90 percent in 2009; for those aged less than 30, it fell below 30 percent. Using individual survey data from 2006, 2008, and 2010, this article studies the current socioeconomic composition of the Chilean young electorate. First, it shows that the young electorate is class-biased. Income is …
Segregation and conflict: An empirical analysis
Bounding Causal Effects in Ecological Inference Problems
This note illustrates a new method for making causal inferences with ecological data. We show how to combine aggregate outcomes with individual demographics from separate data sources to make causal inferences about individual behavior. In addressing such problems, even under the selection on observables assumption often made in the treatment effects literature, it is not possible to identify causal effects of interest. However, recent results fr…
Indirect political budget cycles: Evidence from Chilean municipalities
The Impact of Procedural Information Costs on Voting: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Chile
Estimating Intergenerational Mobility With Grouped Data: A Critique of Clark’s the Son Also Rises
This article distinguishes three measures of intergenerational economic mobility that emerge when the population is divided into groups: overall individual mobility, within-group mobility, and between-group mobility. We clarify their properties and the relationship between them. We then evaluate Clark's use of surname between-group persistence as a preferred measure of intergenerational mobility in the book The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the Hi…
Consulta Araucanía: El uso oportunista de los mecanismos de democracia directa
Los mecanismos de democracia directa han aumentado su presencia en todo el mundo. Junto a los beneficios que conlleva la participación ciudadana, estos mecanismos han reabierto la posibilidad de usar elecciones con propósitos movilizadores. Este artículo revisa el uso oportunista de la Consulta Araucanía, llevada a cabo en el sur de Chile el año 2021. Esta consulta ciudadana preguntó acerca de una posible extensión de la militarización en el cont…
Introducing Maceda: New micro-data on an indigenous self-determination conflict
This article introduces MACEDA, a micro-level dataset on the self-determination (SD) conflict between the Chilean state and the indigenous Mapuche. Although SD disputes are one of the most common conflicts in the world, and indigenous movements represent about 40% of all SD movements, this is the first micro-dataset focused on an indigenous SD conflict. MACEDA covers the period 1990-2016, including more than 2,600 events collected from local medi…
Does Local Representation Reduce Self-Determination Conflict
There is ample evidence that the political exclusion of minorities from state power increases the risk of conflict. Nevertheless, do these same results apply to local representation? I explore this question using the success in mayoral elections of the Chilean Mapuche, a deprived indigenous minority in a longstanding conflict against the Chilean state. Combining a novel database on conflict and a surname strategy to single out Mapuche mayors, pan…
Indigenous representation and participation: The case of the Chilean Mapuche
According to the empowerment hypothesis, minority politicians encourage minority participation. The relationship between representation and participation has been extensively analyzed for several ethnic minorities and women, but there are no studies for indigenous populations in Latin America. This paper evaluates the link between descriptive representation and electoral registration of Mapuche, a deprived indigenous minority from the South of Ch…
El conflicto de autodeterminación entre el Estado de Chile y el pueblo Mapuche: Una descripción usando microdatos georreferenciados de Maceda (1990-2021)
Los conflictos de autodeterminación son prevalentes en diferentes sociedades. Sin embargo, sólo recientemente se han analizado empíricamente, en particular cuando estos son de relativa baja intensidad e involucran estrategias no violentas. El presente artículo describe la más reciente versión de MACEDA, una base georreferenciada de microdatos de eventos del conflicto de autodeterminación entre el Estado de Chile y el pueblo Mapuche entre 1990 y 2…
All that legislates is not gold: Representation and redistribution in Chile
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