Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis   

I am a Research Fellow at MOVE, an Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure) at UAB, and Affiliated Research Professor at the Barcelona GSE. My CV is here [.pdf] and my current research below. My address is: Plaça Civica s/n, Bellaterra, Barcelona 08193, Spain. E-mail me to: rauls[at]movebarcelona.eu

• google scholar citations here
• SSRN profile here
• ideas.repec profile here

News

• Research on the price of growth (consumption insurance) in China featured on VoxChina
• Research on land misallocation in Malawi featured on The IGC Blog
• Research on age at first birth and mother's lifetime earnings featured on Financial Times Forbes The Economist 1843

Research

• Submitted Manuscripts

1. 'The Effects of Land Markets on Resource Allocation and Agricultural Productivity,' with Chaoran Chen and Diego Restuccia (2017) [.pdf]
2. 'Why Is Food Consumption Inequality Underestimated? A Story of Vices and Children,’ with Yu Zheng (2017) [.pdf] [Online Appendix]
3. 'Education Disparities in the Battle Against Infertility: Evidence from IVF Success,' with Daniela Iorio, Fane Groes and Mallory Leung (2017) [.pdf]

• Manuscripts Under Revision for Resubmission

1. 'How Much are SVARs with Long-Run Restrictions Missing without Cyclically Moving Factor Shares?' [.pdf]
Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Econometrics
2. 'Labor Share Decline and Intellectual Property Products Capital', with Dongya Koh and Yu Zheng [.pdf] [Online Appendix] [Earlier versions BGSE WP927] [Data and Code]
Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy
In the Media BGSE Focus World Economic Forum Center for Equitable Growth Jeannee Emard (French) MOVE [video]
3. 'Education, HIV Status, and Risky Sexual Behavior: How Much Does the Stage of the HIV Epidemic Matter?', with Daniela Iorio [.pdf] [companion site]
(Reject-and-Resubmit) International Economic Review
4. 'Countercyclical Elasticity of Substitution', with Dongya Koh [.pdf] [Online Appendix]
(Reject-and-Resubmit) Journal of Monetary Economics
5. 'The Costs of Consumption Smoothing: Less Schooling and Less Nutrition', with Dongya Koh and Leandro de Magalhaes [.pdf] [Online Appendix]
Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Demographic Economics
6. 'Land Misallocation and Productivity', with Diego Restuccia [.pdf] [Online Appendix]
In the Media The IGC Blog Barcelona GSE Focus
Revise & Resubmit, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

• Published Papers

1. 'Natural Resources and Global Misallocation', with Alex Monge-Naranjo and Juan Sanchez [.pdf] [Online Appendix] [Data.xlsx]
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (Forthcoming)
2. 'The Price of Growth: Consumption Insurance in China 1989-2009', with Yu Zheng [.pdf] [Online Appendix]
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (Forthcoming)
In the Media VoxChina
3. 'The Consumption, Income and Wealth of the Poorest: An Empirical Analysis of Economic Inequality in Rural and Urban Sub-Saharan Africa for Macroeconomists', with Leandro de Magalhaes (2017) [.pdf] [Online Appendix]
Journal of Development Economics (2018), Volume 134, pp 350–371
In the Media PolitiFact
4. '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 videnskab.dk La Vanguardia Billfold psmag Psychology Today globalnewsca U.S. News & World Report Forbes The Economist 1843 Financial Times
5. '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.
6. '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. 'Kaldor Facts with Intellectual Property Products Capital: An Assessment of 31 OECD New National Accounts,' with Sangmin Aum and Dongya Koh (2018) [.pdf]
  2. 'On the Global Misallocation of Human Capital,' with Alex Monge-Naranjo and Juan Sanchez (2018) [.pdf] (new draft coming soon!)
  3. 'Aggregate Effects of AIDS on Development' [.pdf] (new draft coming soon!)
  4. 'Balanced Growth Path and Preferences: There is No Need for CRRA Felicity Functions', with Jose-Victor Rios-Rull.
  5. 'Social Insurance Barriers to Economic Growth,' with Leandro de Magalhaes, Dongya Koh and Yu Zheng
  6. 'Constrained-Efficient Entrepreneurship,' with Lian Allub, Axelle Ferreire and Yu Zheng

Research Interests

• Inequality and the Macroeconomy
• Intellectual Property Products
• Resource Misallocation and Productivity
• Social Insurance and Economic Growth
• HIV/AIDS and the Macroeconomy

Teaching

• UAB
  • [Econ PhD] Quantitative Macro: fall2018
  • [Econ PhD] Growth and Development sp2017

• Washington University
  • [Econ 5725, PhD] Quantitative Macro: fall2017, sp2016, sp2015, sp2014, sp2012, sp2011, sp2010, sp2009.
  • [Econ 5711, PhD] Development Economics: sp2016, sp2015, sp2014.
  • [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]
Husband: If I turn out to be positive, it will be your fault.
Wife: But I know that I tested negative.
Husband: It does not matter, it will be your fault.