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Scopus Author ID: 35104797600

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Development economics, Urban economics

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Biography

Marco Gonzalez-Navarro is associate professor of economics in the department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC-Berkeley. His research focuses on issues Development Economics and Urban Economics. He has published on subway infrastructure, retail globalization in emerging markets, cost of living, rural land titling, road infrastructure, crime, and political economy. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and Journal of Development Economics. He received his B.A. in economics from ITAM in Mexico, his Ph.D. in Economics at Princeton University. He is a J-PAL, BREAD and CEGA affiliate. He was previously an assistant professor at University of Toronto.

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Employment (4)

University of California Berkeley: Berkeley, CA, US

2019-07-01 to present | Associate professor (Agricultural and Resource Economics)
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University of California Berkeley: Berkeley, CA, US

2017-07-01 to 2019-06-01 | Assistant professor (Agricultural and Resource Economics)
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University of Toronto: Toronto, ON, CA

2011-01-01 to 2017-06-31 | Assistant professor
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University of California, Berkeley: Berkeley, California, US

2009-07-01 to 2010-12-31 | RWJ Postdoctoral Fellow (Economics and School of Public Health)
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Education and qualifications (1)

Princeton University: Princeton, NJ, US

2003-08-01 to 2009-06-01 | Ph.D. (Economics)
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Funding (3)

Subways and urban air pollution

2015-04-01 to 2018-03-31 | Grant
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Ottawa, CA)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.5508177
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Appropriate institutions: consequences of indigenous customary law use in Oaxaca, Mexico

2013-04-01 to 2015-03-31 | Grant
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, CA)
URL: https://grants.uberresearch.com/501100000155/128633/Appropriate-institutions-consequences-of-indigenous-customary-law-use-in-Oaxaca-Mexico
GRANT_NUMBER: 128633
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The costs of voter patronage and the quality of local government: a field experiment

2012-04-01 to 2015-03-31 | Grant
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, CA)
URL: https://grants.uberresearch.com/501100000155/111887/The-costs-of-voter-patronage-and-the-quality-of-local-government-a-field-experiment
GRANT_NUMBER: 111887
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Works (15)

Road Maintenance and Local Economic Development: Evidence from Indonesia’s Highways

Journal of Urban Economics
2024-09 | Journal article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2024.103687
Contributors: marco gonzalez-navarro; paul gertler; tadeja gracner; alexander rothenberg
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Measuring Welfare and Inequality with Incomplete Price Information

Quarterly Journal of Economics
2024-02-01 | Journal article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjad037
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2-s2.0-85112478207

Part of ISSN: 15565068
Contributors: marco gonzalez-navarro; David Atkin; Benjamin Faber; Thibault Fally
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Uber Versus Trains? Worldwide Evidence from Transit Expansions

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2022 | Other
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2-s2.0-85123336642

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Contributors: Gonzalez-Navarro, M.; Hall, J.D.; Williams, R.; Wheeler, H.; Williams, R.
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Vulnerability and Clientelism

American Economic Review
2022-11-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1257/aer.20190565
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2-s2.0-85116477447

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Part of ISSN: 0002-8282
Contributors: marco gonzalez-navarro; Gustavo J. Bobonis; Paul J. Gertler; Marco Gonzalez-Navarro; Simeon Nichter
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Subways and Urban Air Pollution

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
2022-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1257/app.20180168
Part of ISSN: 1945-7782
Part of ISSN: 1945-7790
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2-s2.0-85115561752

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Using Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning to Evaluate the Impact of Anti-Poverty Programs

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2021 | Other
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2-s2.0-85113679876

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Contributors: Huang, L.Y.; Hsiang, S.M.; Gonzalez-Navarro, M.
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Appropriate Institutions? Traditional Governance and Public Goods Provision in Oaxaca, Mexico

AEA Papers and Proceedings
2021-05-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20211101
Part of ISSN: 2574-0768
Part of ISSN: 2574-0776
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Do Information Technologies Improve Teenagers’ Sexual Education? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Colombia

The World Bank Economic Review
2020-06-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3386/w18776
DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhy031
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2-s2.0-85113569209

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Part of ISSN: 0258-6770
Part of ISSN: 1564-698X
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Subways and Urban Growth: Evidence from Earth

Journal of Urban Economics
2018-11 | Journal article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2018.09.002
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2-s2.0-85116797303

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Retail Globalization and Household Welfare: Evidence from Mexico

Journal of Political Economy
2018-02-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3386/w21176
DOI: 10.1086/695476
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Paving Streets for the Poor: Experimental Analysis of Infrastructure Effects

Review of Economics and Statistics
2016-05-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00553
Contributors: marco gonzalez-navarro; Climent Quintana-Domeque
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Delinking Land Rights from Land Use: Certification and Migration in Mexico †

American Economic Review
2015-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1257/aer.20130853
Contributors: Alain de Janvry; Kyle Emerick; Marco Gonzalez-Navarro; Elisabeth Sadoulet
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Are land reforms granting complete property rights politically risky? Electoral outcomes of Mexico's certification program

Journal of Development Economics
2014-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2013.04.003
Contributors: Alain de Janvry; Marco Gonzalez-Navarro; Elisabeth Sadoulet
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Deterrence and Geographical Externalities in Auto Theft

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
2013-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1257/app.5.4.92
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The reliability of self-reported home values in a developing country context

Journal of Housing Economics
2009 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhe.2009.07.013
Contributors: Marco Gonzalez-Navarro; Climent Quintana-Domeque
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Peer review (3 reviews for 3 publications/grants)

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Review activity for Regional science and urban economics. (1)
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