Luis Maldonado

Luis Maldonado

Sociologist. I study economic inequality, disasters and quantitative methods

Journal articles

  1. Breznau, N., Rinke, E. M., Wuttke, A., Hung H.V. Nguyen, (185 authors), Maldonado, L.(2025). The Reliability of Replications: A Study in Computational Reproductions”. Royal Society Open Science. Forthcoming.

  2. Rivas, R., Maldonado, L., Campos, K., & Ojeda, L. (2024). Capacidad Estatal y Vulnerabilidad ante el Riesgo de Desastres: El caso del Megaincendio de 2014 en Valparaíso, Chile. Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos sobre Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres REDER, 8(2), 214-227. doi: 10.55467/reder.v8i2.168

  3. Ayala, M.C., Webb, A., Maldonado, L., Canales, A., and Cascallar, E. (2024). Teacher’s Social Desirability Bias and Migrant Students: A Study on Explicit and Implicit Prejudices with a List Experiment. Social Science Research. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.102990

  4. Castillo, J.C., Iturra, J., Maldonado, L., Meneses, F., and Atria, J. (2023). A multidimensional approach for measuring meritocratic beliefs: Advantages, limitations and alternatives to the ISSP social inequality survey. International Journal of Sociology. doi: 10.1080/00207659.2023.2274712

  5. Canales, A., & Maldonado, L. (2023). Do teachers compensate for or compound disparities in academic achievement?. International Journal of Educational Research. doi: 10.1016/j.ijer.2023.102138

  6. Maldonado, L., Molinos-Senante, M., Quiero-Bastias, M., & Atal, G. (2023). Willingness to pay for improving water supply continuity in case of climatic extreme natural events: an empirical approach for Chile. Urban Water Journal, 20(1), 74-88. doi: 10.1080/1573062X.2022.2153702

  7. Iturra, J., Castillo, J. C., Maldonado, L., and Rufs, C. (2023). La Percepción de Desigualdad Económica y su Influencia sobre la Justificación de las Diferencias de Ingreso Legítimas. Estudios Sociológicos, Vol. 41, Núm. 122, 309-352. doi: 10.24201/es.2023v41n122.2260

  8. Breznau, N., Rinke, E. M., Wuttke, A., (185 authors), Maldonado, L. (2022). Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(44)e2203150119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2203150119

  9. Maldonado, L. and Canales, A.(2022). La Paradoja de la Redistribución en el Chile Actual. Revista de Sociología. Vol.37, 1, 74-88. doi: 10.5354/0719-529X.2022.68150

  10. Atria, J., Castillo, J. C., Maldonado, L., and Ramirez, S. (2020). Economic Elites’ Attitudes Toward Meritocracy in Chile: A Moral Economy Perspective. American Behavioral Scientist. Vol.64, 9, 1219-1241. doi: 10.1177/0002764220941214

  11. Santana, M., Cabezas, V., Nussbaum, M., Claro, M., Cabello, T., and Maldonado, L. (2020). How Prioritizing Number Skills Can Act as a Mediator for Socioeconomic Inequality within a National Math Compulsory Curriculum. Elementary School Journal. 120:4, 580- 610. doi: 10.1086/708667

  12. Maldonado, L., Kronmueller, E., and Gutierrez, I. (2020). Apego de Lugar en Areas Post- Desastres: El Caso de la Reocupaci ́on de la Ciudad de Chait ́en, Chile. Psykhe, Vol. 29, 1, 1-18. doi: 10.7764/psykhe.29.1.1327

  13. Atria, J., Ramirez, S., Castillo, JC. and Maldonado, L. (2019). Studying Meritocracy in an Unequal Context: Perspectives from Chilean Scholars. Universum, 34(2), pp. 127-145.

  14. Maldonado, L., Olivos, F., Castillo, J. C, Atria, J. and Azar, A. (2019). Risk Exposure, Humanitarianism and Willingness to Pay for Universal Healthcare: A Cross-National Analysis of 28 Countries. Social Justice Research, Vol. 32, 3, 349-383. doi: 10.1007/s11211-019-00336-6

  15. Castillo, J. C., Torres, A., Atria, J. and Maldonado, L. (2019). Meritocracia y Desigualdad Economica: Percepciones, preferencias e implicancias. Revista Internacional de Sociologia, Vol. 77, 1, 1-15. doi: 10.3989/ris.2019.77.1.17.114

  16. Bargsted, M. and Maldonado, L. (2018). Party Identification in an Encapsulated Party System: The Case of Post Authoritarian Chile. Journal of Politics in Latin America, 10, 1, 29-68.

  17. Azar, A., Maldonado, L., Castillo, J. C. and Atria, J. (2018). Income, Egalitarianism, and Attitudes Towards Healthcare Policy: A Study on Public Attitudes in 29 Countries. Public Health, Vol.154, January: 59-69. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2017.09.007

  18. Canales, A. and Maldonado, L. (2018). Teacher Quality and Student Achievement in Chile: Linking Teachers’ Contribution and Observable Characteristics. International Journal of Educational Development, Vol.60, May: 33-50. doi: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2017.09.009

  19. Madariaga, L., Nussbaum, M., Burq, I., Marañon, F., Salazar, D., Maldonado, L., Alarcon, C., and Naranjo, M. (2017). Online Survey: A National Study with School Principals. Computer in Human Behavior, Vol.74: 35-44. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2017.03.067

  20. Maldonado, L., Kronmueller, E., and Gutierrez, I. (2016). Estrategia para la Inferencia Causal y Planificación de Estudios Observacionales en las Ciencias Sociales: el Caso de Chaiten Post Erupción del 2008. Revista de Ciencia Politica (RCP), Vol.36, 3: 797-827.

  21. Maldonado, L., Prieto, J., and Lay, S. (2016). Las Dinámicas de Pobreza en Chile durante el Periodo 2006-2009. Serie Temas de la Agenda, No 87, Centro UC de Políticas Publicas.

  22. Maldonado, L. and Prieto, J. (2015). Determinantes de la Dinámica de la Pobreza en Chile y el Rol de la Persistencia Temporal: Análisis de la Encuesta Panel Casen 2006-2009 con Métodos de Historia de Eventos. Economia y Politica, 2(2), 5-39. doi: 10.15691/07194714.2015.005

  23. Huneeus, C., and Maldonado, L. (2003). Demócratas y nostálgicos del antiguo régimen. Los apoyos a la democracia en Chile. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 103(3), 9-49.

Book chapters

  1. Maldonado, L. and Ayala, M. C. (2020) ”Redistributive Preferences in Contemporary Brazil.” en S. Lopez-Cariboni et al. (Eds). Political Economy of BRIC Countries. Volume 3: Political Economy of Informality in BRIC Countries. World Scientific Publishing. Singapore.

  2. Maldonado, L., Prieto, J. and Feres, J. C. (2018) ”The Working Poor in Chile during the Period 1990-2013” en H. Lohmann and I. Marx (Eds). Edward Elgar Handbook of Research on In-Work Poverty. Cheltenham, UK.

  3. Maldonado, L. and Geraldo, P. (2017) “Fixed Effects Regression and Effect Heterogeneity: An Illustration Using a Causal Inference Perspective” en M. Giesselmann, K. Golsh, H. Lohmann, and A. Schmidt-Catran (Eds). Lebensbedingungen in Deutschland in der Längsschnittperspective. Springer VS.

Work in progress

  1. Sanchez, F. and Maldonado, L. (2025). “Protests and Electoral Repercussions under Authoritarianism: The Case of Pinochet’s Chile”

  2. Maldonado, L., Castillo, J. C., Olivos, F., Iturra, J., and Atria, J. (2025) ”Does information about economic inequality affect opportunity beliefs? Results from survey experiments in contemporary Chile”.

Other publications

  1. Maldonado, L. (2012) Helping the Poor in Latin America: Three Studies on Public Trans- fers, Social Services, and Poverty in Different Institutional Contexts. PhD thesis. University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.

  2. Maldonado, L. (2012) ”Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Mod- els of Andrew Gelman and Jennifer Hill, 2007.” Persona y Sociedad, Vol. XXVI, 1. Book Review.

  3. Irarrazaval, I., Lopez de Lerida, J., Maldonado, L., Margotta, O., Ortuzar, D., Torche, A. (2011) “Ingreso Etico Familiar: Reflexiones en torno a la Nueva Politica Social para la Poblacion en Situacion de Extrema Pobreza.” Apuntes Legislativos. Vol.(14), 2-11.