Javiera Selman
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, University of Chile
My fields are public and urban economics.
You can contact me at jselman@fen.uchile.cl
Download my CV here
Selected Publications
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“Skipping the Bag: The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Disposable Bag Regulation”. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol 41(1), 2022.
with Tatiana Homonoff, Lee-Sien Kao and Christina Seybolt.
Working Papers
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"Rental Assistance in Middle-Income Countries: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Chile” (R&R)
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"Lost in the Process? Information Barriers and Incomplete Take-up of Rental Vouchers"
with Pablo Celhay
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“Neighborhood spillovers in rental voucher program participation: Evidence from Chile”
with Bárbara Flores
Work in Progress
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Sexual Orientation Discrimination in Mortgage Lending
with Patrick Button, David Schwegman, Hussain Hadah, Catherine Balfe, and Tran Nguyen-Phuong
This research uses an email correspondence experiment to test if mortgage loan originators discriminate against married spouses based on their sexual orientation and race (African American vs. white). We send emails requesting information about home loans to licensed mortgage loan originators (MLOs) in the United States. The emails come from fictitious married couples who are either same-gender female, same-gender male or different-gender, and either both have white-sounding names, or both have African American names. We test for differential treatment by MLOs by comparing response quality and response rates. We will then test for statistical discrimination and other explanatory factors by determining how discrimination varies by factors such as credit scores, local demographics and social attitudes, discrimination laws, and MLO characteristics.
In the field 2024-2026.
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Administrative Barriers in Rental Voucher Programs: Experimental Evidence From Chile
with Pablo Celhay
This research project develops an online platform to randomly vary information for local housing officials in Chile to uncover administrative barriers hindering rental voucher utilization.
In the field 2026