Carlos Díaz
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Santiago de Chile).
My main fields of interest are the economics of crime, urban economics, household economics, and social networks.
Publications
The heterogeneous effects of COVID-19 lockdowns on crime across the world
Crime Science (2024): Forthcoming
(with N. Trajtenberg, S. Fossati, [...] and M.P. Eisner) [Database]
Parents, neighbors and youth crime
Review of Economics of the Household 21 (2023): 673-692
(with E. Patacchini) [SSRN WP] [IZA DP]
Stay at home if you can: COVID-19 stay-at-home guidelines and local crime
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 19, No. 4 (2022): 1067-1113
(with S. Fossati and N. Trajtenberg) [SSRN WP]
Can OLPC reduce digital inequalities? ICT household access patterns under Plan Ceibal
Telecommunications Policy 46, No. 4 (2022): 102406
(with M. Dodel and P. Menese) [SSRN WP]
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 192 (2021): 638-667
(with E. Patacchini, T. Verdier and Y. Zenou) [CEPR DP] [IZA DP] [VoxEU] [Brookings Blog]
A global analysis of the impact of COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions on crime
Nature Human Behaviour 5, No. 7 (2021): 868-877
(with A.E. Nivette, R. Zahnow, [...] and M.P. Eisner) [Open Access] [Project] [Data] [Coverage]
Social interactions in health behaviors and conditions
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (2019)
(with A. Balsa) [Oxford Encyclopedia of Health Economics] [RedUM]
Self-control and peer groups: An empirical analysis
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 134 (2017): 240-254
(with M. Battaglini and E. Patacchini) [CEPR DP] [VoxEU]
Ongoing Projects
Randomization inference for before-and-after studies with multiple units: An application to a criminal procedure reform in Uruguay
(with M. Cattaneo and R. Titiunik)
Partners or partisans: Unraveling the nexus of political alignment and police engagement in the FBI's UCR program
(with D. Buil-Gil, P. Ezquerra, S. Fossati and N. Trajtenberg)
Uncovering the latent dependency structure of crime through matrix-autoregressive models and network analysis
(with D. Durante, E. Patacchini and G. Zens)
People on the street, use of violence, and property crime
Crime evolution in the US: A historical perspective
(with S. Fossati and N. Trajtenberg)
Retail and crime in Montevideo
(with S. Fossati and N. Trajtenberg)
Unintended consequences of police custody: Lessons from an IPV program
(with A. Cid, J. Cabrera, J. Dubra, S. Fossati, O. Marie, N. Trajtenberg and F. Veneri)