Francisco Gallego
Biographic Data
| ID | 6448677 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francisco Gallego |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francisco |
| FAMILY NAME | Gallego |
| SIGNATURE | GALLEGO F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2252-891X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lights, camera, school
Punishing mayors who fail the test
Baby commodity booms? The impact of commodity shocks on fertility decisions and outcomes
Railroads, specialization, and population growth
Socioeconomic inequalities in self-perceived oral health among adults in Chile
The findings are consistent with inequities in the access to oral health services due to insufficient provision in the public sector and costly options in the private sector
Institutions, Human Capital, and Development
In this article, we revisit the relationship among institutions, human capital, and development. We argue that empirical models that treat institutions and human capital as exogenous are misspecified, both because of the usual omitted variable bias problems and because of differential measurement error in these variables, and that this misspecification is at the root of the very large returns of human capital, about four to five times greater tha…
Good, Bad, and Ugly Colonial Activities
Levels of development vary widely within countries in the Americas. We argue that part of this variation has its roots in the colonial era, when colonizers engaged in different economic activities in different regions of a country. We present evidence consistent with the view that “bad” activities (those that depended heavily on labor exploitation) led to lower economic development today than “good” activities (those that did not rely on labor ex…
Skill Premium in Chile
Sudden stops, financial frictions, and labor market flows
Legislative malapportionment and institutional persistence
This paper argues that legislative malapportionment, denoting a discrepancy between the share of legislative seats and the share of population held by electoral districts, serves as a tool for pre-democratic elites to preserve their political power and economic interests after a transition to democracy. The authors claim that legislative malapportionment enhances the pre-democratic elite s political influence by over-representing areas that are m…
Christian Missionaries and Education in Former African Colonies
Using regional data for about 180 African provinces, we find that measures of Protestant missionary activity in the past are more correlated with schooling variables today than similar measures of Catholic missionary activity, as previous papers have suggested. However, we find that this effect is mainly driven by differences in Catholic areas (i.e., areas in which Catholic missionaries were protected from competition from Protestant missionaries…
Historical Origins of Schooling
Why does schooling attainment vary widely across countries? Why are differences in schooling attainment highly persistent? I show that cross-country differences in schooling are related to political institutions, such as democracy and local democracy (political decentralization), which are affected by colonial factors. By using the number of native cultures before colonization as an instrument for political decentralization, I show that after con…
Legislative malapportionment and institutional persistence
This paper argues that legislative malapportionment, denoting a discrepancy between the share of legislative seats and the share of population held by electoral districts, serves as a tool for pre-democratic elites to preserve their political power and economic interests after a transition to democracy. The authors claim that legislative malapportionment enhances the pre-democratic elite s political influence by over-representing areas that are m…
Christian Missionaries and Education in Former African Colonies
Using regional data for about 180 African provinces, we find that measures of Protestant missionary activity in the past are more correlated with schooling variables today than similar measures of Catholic missionary activity, as previous papers have suggested. However, we find that this effect is mainly driven by differences in Catholic areas (i.e., areas in which Catholic missionaries were protected from competition from Protestant missionaries…
Historical Origins of Schooling
Why does schooling attainment vary widely across countries? Why are differences in schooling attainment highly persistent? I show that cross-country differences in schooling are related to political institutions, such as democracy and local democracy (political decentralization), which are affected by colonial factors. By using the number of native cultures before colonization as an instrument for political decentralization, I show that after con…
Skill Premium in Chile
Sudden stops, financial frictions, and labor market flows
Good, Bad, and Ugly Colonial Activities
Levels of development vary widely within countries in the Americas. We argue that part of this variation has its roots in the colonial era, when colonizers engaged in different economic activities in different regions of a country. We present evidence consistent with the view that “bad” activities (those that depended heavily on labor exploitation) led to lower economic development today than “good” activities (those that did not rely on labor ex…
Institutions, Human Capital, and Development
In this article, we revisit the relationship among institutions, human capital, and development. We argue that empirical models that treat institutions and human capital as exogenous are misspecified, both because of the usual omitted variable bias problems and because of differential measurement error in these variables, and that this misspecification is at the root of the very large returns of human capital, about four to five times greater tha…
Socioeconomic inequalities in self-perceived oral health among adults in Chile
The findings are consistent with inequities in the access to oral health services due to insufficient provision in the public sector and costly options in the private sector
Railroads, specialization, and population growth
Baby commodity booms? The impact of commodity shocks on fertility decisions and outcomes
Punishing mayors who fail the test
Lights, camera, school
Economics (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Human capital (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Geography (3 works)