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Felipe Carozzi.

Felipe Carozzi

Associate

Telephone:
020 7849 4942
Email:
f.carozzi@lse.ac.uk
Room:
CKK 4.27
Links:
CEP Urban

Biography

Dr Felipe Carozzi is Assistant Professor of Urban Economics and Economic Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment and an Associate of the Centre for Economic Performance. He completed his PhD in Economics at the Center for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI), Madrid.

Publications

Blog
What explains the gender ideology gap?

Felipe Carozzi and Andres Gago present evidence from Spain that can provide a partial explanation for a growing ideological gap between young men and women across the world.... Read more...

Felipe Carozzi and Andres Gago

11 April 2024

Journal article
Local Retail Prices, Product Variety, and Neighborhood Change

We study how local grocery markets within a city are affected by changes in housing markets. Our empirical strategy exploits a shift in the spatial distribution of construction activity induced by a large-scale, place-ba... Read more...

Fernando Borraz, Felipe Carozzi, Nicolás González-Pampillón and Leandro Zipitria

01 February 2024

Blog
The experience of war shapes communities and future wars

Countries currently involved in active warfare - Ukraine, Russia, and Israel most prominently - have launched intense mobilisation campaigns to expand their armies. This column examines what compels ordinary men and wome... Read more...

Felipe Carozzi, Edward W. Pinchbeck and Luca Repetto

20 January 2024

Journal article - forthcoming
Powers that be? Political alignment, government formation, and government stability

We study how partisan alignment across levels of government affects coalition formation and government stability using a regression discontinuity design and a large dataset of Spanish municipal elections. We document a p... Read more...

Felipe Carozzi, Davide Cipullo and Luca Repetto

20 December 2023

Journal article - forthcoming
On the economic impacts of mortgage credit expansion policies: Evidence from help to buy

We take advantage of two spatial discontinuities in Britain's Help to Buy (HtB) scheme to explore the effectiveness and distributional implications of mortgage credit expansion policies. Employing a Difference-in-Discont... Read more...

Felipe Carozzi, Christian A. L. Hilber and Xiaolun Yu

02 December 2023

CEP occasional papers
A micro-geographic house price index for England and Wales

We generate a mix-adjusted house price index for England and Wales from 2010 to 2020 at the level of lower-layer super output areas. To this end, we blend parametric and non-parametric estimation techniques and leverage ... Read more...

Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Felipe Carozzi and Lukas Makovsky

01 December 2023

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Scars of war

Deaths of soldiers in wartime naturally have a powerful impact on the communities from which they come. Research by Edward Pinchbeck, Felipe Carozzi and Luca Repetto reveals how losses in the first world war have reverbe... Read more...

Felipe Carozzi, Edward W. Pinchbeck and Luca Repetto

20 October 2023

Blog
How the scars of past wars continue to shape UK society

Edward Pinchbeck, Felipe Carozzi and Luca Repetto discuss new research exploring how memory of losses from war affects communities and shapes social values. Their findings suggest the impact can reverberate through gener... Read more...

Felipe Carozzi, Edward W. Pinchbeck and Luca Repetto

07 August 2023

CEP discussion papers
Scars of war: the legacy of WW1 deaths on civic capital and combat motivation

What drives soldiers to risk their life in combat? We show that the legacy of war creates lasting conditions that encourage younger generations to take greater risks when fighting for their country. Using individual-leve... Read more...

Felipe Carozzi, Edward W. Pinchbeck and Luca Repetto

01 August 2023

Journal article - forthcoming
Dirty density: air quality and the density of American cities

We study the effect of urban density on the exposure of city dwellers to air pollution using data from the United States urban system. Exploiting geological features to instrument for density, we find an economically and... Read more...

Felipe Carozzi and Sefi Roth

01 March 2023

Journal article - forthcoming
Who promotes gender-sensitive policies?

We study whether female-headed local governments in Spain are more likely to engage in gender sensitive policies such as long-term care support, pre-schooling, or work and family-life balancing services. Using a fuzzy re... Read more...

Felipe Carozzi and Andres Gago

11 January 2023

Journal article - forthcoming
Urban density and Covid-19: understanding the US experience

This paper revisits the debate around the link between population density and the severity of COVID-19 spread in the USA. We do so by conducting an empirical analysis based on graphical evidence, regression analysis and ... Read more...

Felipe Carozzi, Sandro Provenzano and Sefi Roth

28 November 2022

Journal article
Political fragmentation and government stability: evidence from local governments in Spain

This paper studies how political fragmentation affects government stability. Using a regression discontinuity design, we show that each additional party with representation in the local parliament increases the probabili... Read more...

Felipe Carozzi, Davide Cipullo and Luca Repetto

01 April 2022

CEP discussion papers
Local retail prices, product varieties and neighborhood change

We study how local grocery prices within a city are affected by changes in housing markets. Our empirical strategy is based on an exogenous shift in the spatial distribution of construction activity induced by a large-sc... Read more...

Fernando Borraz, Felipe Carozzi, Nicolás González-Pampillón and Leandro Zipitria

20 January 2022

Blog
Covid-19: cities get hit first, but do not necessarily get hit harder

Is there a link between population density and COVID-19 spread and severity in the United States? Felipe Carozzi, Sandro Provenzano and Sefi Roth (Centre for Economic Performance, LSE) found denser locations were more li... Read more...

Felipe Carozzi, Sandro Provenzano and Sefi Roth

19 August 2020

CEP discussion papers
Urban density and Covid-19

This paper estimates the link between population density and COVID-19 spread and severity in the contiguous United States. To overcome confounding factors, we use two Instrumental Variable (IV) strategies that exploit ge... Read more...

Felipe Carozzi, Sandro Provenzano and Sefi Roth

17 August 2020

Journal article
Credit Constraints and the Composition of Housing Sales. Farewell to First-Time Buyers?

During the housing bust of 2008-2009, housing prices and transaction volumes fell across the United Kingdom. Although the drop in prices was similar across housing types, transaction volumes fell more for units at the lo... Read more...

Felipe Carozzi

01 June 2020

Journal article
The role of demand in land re-development

Vacant, previously-developed land in cities can generate negative externalities on surrounding areas, and is often the target of policies to promote re-development. This paper provides estimates of the price sensitivity ... Read more...

Felipe Carozzi

01 May 2020

CEP discussion papers
On the economic impacts of mortgage credit expansion policies: evidence from help to buy

Mortgage credit expansion policies - such as UK's Help to Buy (HtB) - aim to increase access to and affordability of owner-occupied housing and are widespread around the world. We take advantage of spatial discontinuitie... Read more...

Felipe Carozzi, Christian A. L. Hilber and Xiaolun Yu

13 March 2020

Blog
Dirty Density: Air Quality and the Density of American Cities

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Felipe Carozzi

29 August 2019

Blog
Compact cities have many advantages – clean air isn’t one of them

Air pollution is bad for us. We all know that polluted air is detrimental to our health and recent research shows that it can also affect our performance in education, productivity at work and even our safety. This has i... Read more...

Felipe Carozzi and Sefi Roth

22 August 2019

CEP discussion papers
Dirty density: air quality and the density of American cities

We study whether urban density affects the exposure of city dwellers to ambient air pollution using satellite-derived measures of air quality for the contiguous United States. For identification, we rely on an instrument... Read more...

Felipe Carozzi and Sefi Roth

15 July 2019

Blog
Turning Brownfields Around: the Role of Demand in Land Re-Development

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Felipe Carozzi

11 July 2018

CEP discussion papers
The role of demand in land re-development

Several governments throughout the world apply policies aimed to re-mediate and recover vacant or idle land for other uses. This paper provides estimates of the price sensitivity of redevelopment, a crucial parameter for... Read more...

Felipe Carozzi

18 May 2018

Blog
Distributive Politics Inside the City?

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Felipe Carozzi

19 October 2017

SERC Discussion Papers
Distributive Politics Inside the City? The Political Economy of Spain's Plan E

We study the allocation of investment projects by municipal governments across groups of voters using data from a fiscal stimulus program carried out in Spain between 2009 and 2011. This program provided municipalities w... Read more...

Felipe Carozzi and Luca Repetto

13 February 2017

SERC Discussion Papers
Credit Constraints and the Composition of Housing Sales. Farewell to First-Time Buyers?

During the housing bust of 2008–2009, home prices and transaction volumes fell across the entire United Kingdom. However, while the fall in prices was similar across housing types, transaction volumes fell more for homes... Read more...

Felipe Carozzi

18 September 2015

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