
Javiera Selman
Ph.D. in Public Administration. New York University
M.A. in Economics. ILADES Chile/Georgetown University
B.A. in Economics. School of Economics and Business, University of Chile.
Javiera Selman is an assistant professor in the Economics Department of the School of Economics and Business at the Universidad de Chile. She holds a PhD in Public Administration from New York University and a Master’s degree in Economics from the ILADES Chile/Georgetown University program.
She has specialized in applied microeconomics. In particular, in the areas of urban and public economics, with a special interest in behavioral economics. He is currently studying participation and use of housing programs, housing market discrimination and residential mobility decisions. During 2024 he will teach the Introduction to Microeconomics course.
Prior to joining Decon he did a postdoc in the Department of Economics and Murphy Institute at Tulane University.
Applied microeconomics, urban and public economics and behavioral economics.
Publicaciones en Revistas con Comité Editorial
- 2023 / Tackling Vulnerable Households through a Working Tax Credit Scheme: A Feasible Alternative to Cash Transfers / HACIENDA PUBLICA ESPANOLA-REVIEW OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
- 2022 / Skipping the Bag: Intended and Unintended Consequences of Disposable Bag Regulation / JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT / - No. 1
- 2015 / A multidimensional employment quality index for Brazil 2002-11 / INTERNATIONAL LABOUR REVIEW / - No. 2
Research Monographs
- 2025 / Rental Assistance in Middle-Income Countries: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Chile
- 2022 / Neighborhood spillovers in rental voucher program participation: Evidence from Chile
- 2022 / Rental voucher programs in middle income countries: Quasi-experimental evaluation of the chilean rental subsidy
Competitive Research Awards Received
- 2021 / Sexual orientation discrimination in mortgage lending: an audit field experiment
- 2020 / Take-up barriers in rental voucher programs: Experimental evidence from Chile
- 2020 / Neighborhood spillovers in rental voucher program participation
- 2019 / Barreras a la Oferta del Subsidio de Arriendo en Chile: ¿Cómo aumentar la aplicación del programa?