Rafael Carranza

Associate

Assistant Professor at the School of Government at PUC Chile

Rafael Carranza

Biography

Rafael Carranza is an Assistant Professor at the School of Government at PUC Chile. Between 2020 and 2023, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department for Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford. He obtained a PhD in Social Policy at the LSE in 2020. Rafael’s work explores the causes and consequences of economic inequality, including topics such as the measurement of income and wealth inequality, intergenerational mobility, redistribution, among others.

Recent Publications

What makes elites more or less egalitarian? Variations in attitudes towards inequality within the economic, political and cultural elites in Chile

Socio-Economic Review 28 Feb 24
We propose that membership of the economic elite and access to private schools, higher education bus...

Economic Inequality
No. 2023-22 - Intergenerational Poverty Persistence in Europe: Is There a ‘Great Gatsby Curve’ for Poverty?

INET Working Paper 01 Dec 23
Here we examine the intergenerational persistence of poverty in a comparative analysis of 30 Europea...

Economic Inequality
Wealth inequality in Latin America

Working Paper 26 Jun 23
How wealth has accumulated in the region and how is it distributed across households? Despite being ...

Economic Inequality
How Much of Intergenerational Immobility Can be Attributed to Differences in Childhood Circumstances?

Research on Economic Inequality 25 Jan 23
I develop a model to decompose the interaction between childhood circumstances, parental income and ...

Economic Inequality
Upper and Lower Bound Estimates of Inequality of Opportunity: A Cross-National Comparison for Europe

The Review of Income and Wealth 20 Oct 22
My findings suggest that lower and upper bound estimates complement each other, corroborating inform...

Economic Inequality
Unemployment Insurance in Transition and Developing Countries: Moral Hazard vs. Liquidity Constraints in Chile

Journal of Development Studies 03 Aug 22
By means of an RDD, this paper analyses the Chilean UI system using a large sample of administrative...

Economic Inequality
Top Income Adjustments and Inequality: An Investigation of the EU-SILC

The Review of Income and Wealth 14 Jun 22
Comparing with two other recent studies, differences in impacts on measured inequality depend less o...

Economic Inequality
No. 2021-16 - Top Income Adjustments and Inequality: An Investigation of the EU-SILC

INET Working Paper 28 Jun 21
In this paper we bridge the gap between two different approaches to measure inequality: one based on...

Economic Inequality
Spatial divisions of poverty and wealth: Does segregation affect educational achievement?

Socio-Economic Review 29 May 21
We examine how different spatial compositions affect the educational achievement in mathematics of 1...

Economic Inequality

Related Themes

Inet Themes Inequality
Economic Inequality

Programme Teams

Inet Teams Growth
Employment, Equity, Growth (EEG)