Francisco A Gallego
Biographic Data
| ID | 8878755 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francisco A Gallego |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francisco A |
| FAMILY NAME | Gallego |
| SIGNATURE | GALLEGO F A |
| AFFILIATIONS | 3Instituto de Economía and Economic History and Cliometrics Lab, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Macul, Santiago, Chile; email: [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lights, camera, school
Punishing mayors who fail the test
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
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…
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…
Punishing mayors who fail the test
Lights, camera, school
Economics (6 works) · Political science (4 works) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Human capital (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Capital (architecture) (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Development economics (2 works)