Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis   

I am an assistant professor at MOVE, UAB and Barcelona GSE. My CV is here [.pdf] and my current research below. My address is: Plaza Civica s/n, Bellaterra, Barcelona 08193, Spain. E-mail me to: loraulet[at]gmail.com

Research

• Submitted Manuscripts

1. 'Lifecycle Consumption versus Expenditure in Sub-Saharan Africa', with Dongya Koh and Leandro de Magalhaes (2016) [.pdf]
2. 'Missing Consumption Inequality: Direct Evidence from Individual Food Data’, with Yu Zheng (2016) [.pdf]
3. 'Natural Resources and Global Misallocation', with Alex Monge-Naranjo and Juan Sanchez (2016) [.pdf]
4. 'The Price of Growth: Consumption Insurance in China 1989-2009', with Yu Zheng (2016) [.pdf] [Online Appendix]
5. 'The Consumption, Income and Wealth of the Poorest: Cross-Sectional Facts of Rural and Urban Sub-Saharan Africa for Macroeconomists', with Leandro de Magalhaes (2015) [.pdf] [Online Appendix]
In the Media PolitiFact
6. 'Land Misallocation and Productivity', with Diego Restuccia (2015) [.pdf] [Online Appendix]
7. 'The Shape of the Aggregate Production Function over the Business Cycle and Its Implications for the Labor Market', with Dongya Koh (2015) [.pdf] [Online Appendix]
8. 'Disparities in the Battle Against Infertility: The Education Gradient in the Success Rates of IVF Technology in Denmark 1995-2010', with Mallory Leung and Fane Groes (2014) [.pdf]

• Manuscripts Under Revision for Resubmission

1. 'Education, HIV Status, and Risky Sexual Behavior: How Much Does the Stage of the HIV Epidemic Matter?', with Daniela Iorio [.pdf] [companion site]
R&R, Quantitative Economics
2. 'How Much are SVARs with Long-Run Restrictions Missing without Cyclically Moving Factor Shares?' [.pdf]
R&R, Journal of Econometrics
3. 'Labor Share Decline and Intellectual Property Products Capital', with Dongya Koh and Yu Zheng [.pdf] [Online Appendix]
R&R, Journal of Political Economy
In the Media World Economic Forum Center for Equitable Growth Jeannee Emard (French) MOVE [video]

• Published Papers

1. 'The Relationship between Age at First Birth and Mother's Lifetime Earnings: Evidence from Danish Register Data', with Mallory Leung and Fane Groes [.pdf]
PLoS ONE (2016), 11(1), DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0146989
In the Media: STL Public Radio MIC Vocativ La Vanguardia Billfold psmag Psychology Today globalnewsca
2. 'Methods versus Substance: the Effects of Technology Shocks on Hours', with Jose-Victor Rios-Rull, Frank Schorfheide, Cristina Fuentes-Albero and Maxym Khrysko [.pdf] [Other versions NBER 15373, Minn. FED Staff Report 433 ]
Journal of Monetary Economics (2012), 59(8), pp. 826-846.
3. 'Redistributive Shocks and Productivity Shocks', with Jose-Victor Rios-Rull [.pdf] [code]
Journal of Monetary Economics (2010), 57(8), pp. 931-948.

• Work in Progress

  

  1. 'Aggregate Effects of AIDS on Development' (2008) [.pdf] (new draft coming soon!)
  2. 'Balanced Growth Path and Preferences: There is No Need for CRRA Felicity Functions', with Jose-Victor Rios-Rull.
  3. 'Eating Up Productivity: Social Insurance Barriers to Structural Change', with Leandro de Magalhaes, Dongya Koh, and Yu Zheng
  4. 'A View of Growth Facts with Intellectual Property Products Capital', with Sangmin Aum and Dongya Koh

Field Projects

• [Malawi: HIV Risk, Sociocentric Transfers and Consumption Insurance] [In progress] Joint with Jere Berhman (UPenn) and Hans-Peter Kohler (UPenn).

Research Interests

• Consumption Insurance and Productivity
• HIV/AIDS and the Macroeconomy
• Inequality and the Macroeconomy

Teaching

• UAB
  • [Econ PhD] Development Economics: sp2017

• Washington University
  • [Econ 5711, PhD] Development Economics: sp2016, sp2015, sp2014.
  • [Econ 5725, PhD] Quantitative Macro: sp2016, sp2015, sp2014, sp2012, sp2011, sp2010, sp2009.
  • [Econ 4021, UGr] Intermediate Macro: fall2013, sp2012, sp2011, fall2009, fall2008.

Personal:

1. Growing Kakis (Asian Persimmon) in Algemesi, Valencia [1] [2]
2. La fornera de la Placeta dels Angels [1] [2]
3. 'Nosaltres, els Valencians' [.pdf]
4. A Unified Growth Theory for a Small Open Economy: [Camalts Mullats, Xiquets de Calp] [Quatre Vents, Amunt Muixeranguers!]
5. My pics: long vs short, running vs not running.
6. Who gave you permission to do an HIV test? [Comedy Made in Africa]
Man: If I turn out to be positive, it will be your fault.
Woman: But I know that I tested negative.
Man: It does not matter, it will be your fault.