I am a Beatriz Galindo Senior Research Professor in Economics 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
'Education Disparities in the Battle Against Infertility: Theory and Evidence from IVF Success', with Daniela Iorio, Fane Groes, Anna Houstecka and Mallory Leung [.pdf]
'Resilient Kaldor: Growth Facts with Intellectual Property Products Capital', with Sangmin Aum and Dongya Koh
'Why Is Food Consumption Inequality Underestimated? A Story of Vices and Children,’
with Yu Zheng [.pdf] [Online Appendix]
Manuscripts Under Revision for Resubmission
'How Much are SVARs with Long-Run Restrictions Missing without Cyclically Moving Factor Shares?' [.pdf]
Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Econometrics
'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
'Countercyclical Elasticity of Substitution', with Dongya Koh [.pdf] [Online Appendix]
(Reject-and-Resubmit) Journal of Monetary Economics
'Land Misallocation and Productivity', with Diego Restuccia [.pdf] [Online Appendix]
'The Costs of Consumption Smoothing: Less Schooling and Less Nutrition', with Dongya Koh and Leandro de Magalhaes (2019) [.pdf] [Online Appendix]
Journal of Demographic Economics (Leading Article)
'Natural Resources and Global Misallocation', with Alex Monge-Naranjo and Juan Sanchez (2019) [.pdf]
AEJ: Macroeconomics
'The Price of Growth: Consumption Insurance in China 1989-2009', with Yu Zheng (2018) [.pdf] [Online Appendix]
AEJ: Macroeconomics (Leading Article)
'The Consumption, Income and Wealth of the Poorest: Cross-Sectional Facts of Rural and Urban Sub-Saharan Africa for Macroeconomists', with Leandro de Magalhaes (2018) [.pdf] [Online Appendix]
'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
'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.
'Redistributive Shocks and Productivity Shocks', with Jose-Victor Rios-Rull [.pdf] [code]
Journal of Monetary Economics (2010), 57(8), pp. 931-948.
Other Publications
"Increasing and Decreasing Labor Shares: Cross-Country Differences in the XXI Century" with Sangmin Aum and Dongya Koh [.pdf]
ICE: Revista de Economia, 2019 (911)
"Should Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries?" with Alex Monge-Naranjo and Juan Sanchez [.pdf]
St. Louis FED Review, 2019
Some Work in Progress
'Aggregate Effects of AIDS on Development' [.pdf] New draft coming soon!
'Balanced Growth Path and Preferences: There is No Need for CRRA Felicity Functions', with Jose-Victor Rios-Rull.
'Eating Up Productivity in Status Quo: Optimal Social Insurance and Economic Growth', with Leandro de Magalhaes, Dongya Koh, Albert Rodriguez and Yu Zheng
'Insurance and Incentives in Times of AIDS' with Francesco Carli
'Progressivity and Development', with Leandro de Magalhaes and Enric Martorell
'Contagion at Work', with Anna Houstecka
'Are Stay-Home Policies Effective Against COVID-19? An Identification from Variation in the Stage of the Epidemic', with Christian Aleman, Chris Busch and Alex Ludwig
