Carlos Díaz
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Santiago, Chile). My main fields of interest are the economics of crime, urban economics, household economics, and social networks.
Publications
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
Uncovering the latent dependency structure of crime through matrix-autoregressive models and network analysis
(with D. Durante, E. Patacchini and G. Zens)
Crime, policing, and electoral strategy
(with S. Fossati and N. Trajtenberg)
Retail and crime in Montevideo
(with S. Fossati and N. Trajtenberg)
Unintended consequences of police custody: Lessons from a DV program
(with A. Cid, J. Cabrera, J. Dubra, S. Fossati, O. Marie, N. Trajtenberg and F. Veneri)
COVID-19 and crime: A follow-up analysis with emphasis on strict lockdowns
(with N. Trajtenberg, S. Fossati, [...] and M.P. Eisner)
Local randomization regression discontinuity for multi-unit event studies: Application to a penal procedure reform
(with M. Cattaneo and R. Titiunik)
Crime data and political alignment
(with D. Buil-Gil, P. Ezquerra, S. Fossati and N. Trajtenberg)