Luis Maldonado

Luis Maldonado

Sociologist. I study economic inequality, disasters and quantitative methods

Journal articles

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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.

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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.

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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

  21. 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.

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.