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Kenzo Javier Asahi Kodama

Profesor Asociado

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Macul, Chile

The impacts of investments in urban transport networks on human and economic development The role of urban regulation on welfare Human capital formation in legal and illegal markets

Social Policy / Economic Geography, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE (LSE). Reino Unido, 2015
Master in Public Administration / International Development, HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Estados Unidos, 2009
Economics, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON. Reino Unido, 2011
Engineering Sciences, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2003
Industrial Civil Engineer, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2003

Graduate Teaching Assistant Part Time

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE (LSE)

London, Reino Unido

2012 - 2014
Teaching Fellow Part Time

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Cambridge, MA, Chile

2008 - 2010
Teaching Fellow Part Time

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Santiago and Bogotá, Colombia, Chile

2009 - 2010
Assistant Professor Full Time

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

Faculty of Social Science, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Science, Faculty of Law, Faculty of History, Geography, and Political Science, Faculty of Engineering

Macul, Chile

2016 - 2023
Associate Professor Full Time

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

Faculty of Social Science, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Science, Faculty of Law, Faculty of History, Geography, and Political Science, Faculty of Engineering

Macul, Santiago, Chile

2023 - At present
Visiting Associate Professor Other

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

School of Architecture and Planning

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos

2024 - At present

School of Government Project Director Full Time

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

2015 - 2016

- Number of theses directed or co-directed.
- Master's: 22
- PhD: 1
- Courses taught are related to the MEDES proposal.
- Undergraduate: Urban Segregation and Inequality
- Graduate: Master in Public Policy Capstone Project, Topics in Urban Economics, Program Evaluation
- Theses where I was the advisor and are related with the proposal
- The stringency of urban regulation: evidence from Chile (Laura Gonzalez)
- Factors influencing urban land-use regulatory changes: homevoters overpowers growth machine? (Javier Penafiel)
- Labor Polycentrism: How to Create a Fairer Balance? (Cristobal Cathalifaud)
- Contribution of social, spatial, and economic frictions to the socioeconomic school segregation: evidence from Chile (Anushka Baloian)
- Worthwhile or Not? Estimating the Impacts of AI-based Recommendation Systems on Chile's School Choice System (Rodrigo Icaran)
- Information acquisition in the context of a centralized school admission system (Felipe Correa)


Intergenerational Mobility in Chile: A Year-to-Year Analysis of a National Cohort of Students Article SCOPUS RESEARCH ON ECONOMIC INEQUALITY (2025)
Crime-time: how ambient light affects crime Article ISI JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY (2023)
Medium-run local economic effects of a major earthquake Aguirre, Paula; Diaz-Rioseco, Diego; Riveros, Ignacio; Valdes, Rodrigo O. Article ISI JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY (2023)
Riots and subways, a relationship moderated by the neighborhood's income level Cartes, Carlos; Fernandez, Rodrigo Article ISI SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (2022)
The Effect of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Maternal Mental Health and Parenting Practices Moderated by Urban Green Space Gildemeister, Damian Article ISI CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE (2022)
Transit, academic achievement and equalisation: evidence from a subway expansion Article ISI JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY (2022)
Benchmarking the Covid-19 pandemic across countries and states in the USA under heterogeneous testing Article ISI SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (2021)
Machine learning for policing: a case study on arrests in Chile Pieringer, Christian Article ISI POLICING SOCIETY (2021)
The effect of COVID-19 on the economy: Evidence from an early adopter of localized lockdowns Article ISI JOURNAL OF GLOBAL HEALTH (2021)


Calor Extremo: Estrategia de Gestión y Medidas de Adaptación Para La Región Metropolitana de Santiago BookSection (2024)
The Role of Identifiability in Empirical Research Perticara, Marcela BookSection (2024)
Sistema de Admisión Escolar En Chile: Efecto Sobre La Equidad y Propuestas de Mejora Baloian, Anushka BookSection (2021)
Big data para la identificación de comportamiento criminal Valenzuela, Eduardo; Pieringer, Christian; Torres, David; Larroulet, Pilar BookSection (2019)


The Impact of Urban Highways on a City's Structural Density Silva, Hugo E. ConferencePaper Link to the paper accepted and presented at the conference: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t3VM0kaok9HvfN8HM120E8pAKvjvEk2y/view?usp=sharing (2019)
Better urban transport improves labour market outcomes, evidence from a subway expansion in Chile ConferencePaper Link to the paper accepted and presented at the conference: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DwnKhDzbDvJDXQ56p93MpqXBrKAU7G6b/view?usp=sharing (2018)


Impacts of better transport accessibility: evidence from Chile Monograph (2015)


Estrategias de adaptación para enfrentar los efectos del aumento de temperatura sobre la seguridad y la salud de los habitantes de Chile Proyecto (2023)
The effect and the moderating role of building height regulation on housing prices and building density Proyecto (2023)
Millenium Nucleus on Intergenerational Mobility: From Policy to Practice Perticara, Marcela Proyecto (2022)
Informal Settlements and Education: A Framework for Developing a Program to Support Vulnerable Children Proyecto Name of the project in Spanish: "“Campamentos y educación escolar: diagnóstico para implementar un programa de amor preferencial por los “últimos”” (2021)
Centre for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS) Proyecto (2020)
Chile’s centralized school admissions system: effect on equity and improvement proposals Proyecto (2020)
Secuelas fiscales y del estrés económico en la salud de los chilenos ante la expansión de COVID-19 Rodrigo Wagner Brizzi Proyecto (2020)
Information Acquisition in Mechanism Design and Disclosure Games Proyecto (2019)
Big data and recidivism Proyecto (2018)
Nuevo sistema de selección escolar chileno: adquisición de información y segregación Proyecto (2018)
The Impact of Transport Infrastructure on the Shape, Density, and Economic Activity of a City Proyecto (2018)
The Impacts of Better Transport Accessibility on Socioeconomic Outcomes: A Spatial Analysis Proyecto Santander Travel Fund (2014)
Increased Maternity Leave or Day Care Centers for Toddlers? Chile’s Infant Public Policy in a Crossroad Abadie, Alberto Proyecto (2010)
Credit for Women: Evidence from a Citywide Microfinance Expansion Proyecto (2008)