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  1. ROBERT M. GONZALEZSchool of EconomicsGeorgia Institute of Technology221 Bobby Dodd WayAtlanta, GA 30332E-mail:robert.gonzalez@gatech.eduWeb:www.robertmgonzalez.comGoogle scholarEMPLOYMENTAssociate Professor, Georgia Tech Fall 2024-presentAssistant Professor, Georgia Tech Fall 2021-Spring 2024Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina Fall 2016-Spring 2021PROFESSIONALACTIVITIESResearch affiliate, Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) 2022-presentMember, 3ie’s Advisory Group for Rapid Evidence Assessment 2023-PresentFaculty Affiliate, Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) 2024-PresentEDUCATIONPh.D. in Economics, UNC-Chapel Hill Spring 2016M.S. in Economics, UNC-Chapel Hill Spring 2013B.S. in Economics, Florida International University Spring 2010RESEARCHINTERESTSPrimary: Development EconomicsSecondary: Public Economics, Economics of Crime, Urban EconomicsPUBLICATIONS“When Does Crime Respond to Punishment?: Evidence from Drug-Free School Zones”(with Ranae Jabri and Sarah Komisarow)Journal of Urban Economics(2025) 147“Monitoring Corruption: Can Top-down Monitoring Crowd Out Grassroots Partici-pation?” (with Matthew Harvey and Foteini Tzachrista)Economic Development andCultural Change(2025) 73(3)“Is the Phone Mightier than the Virus? Cell Phone Access and Epidemic ContainmentEfforts” (with Elisa Maffioli)Journal of Development Economics(2024) 167“Violence and Financial Decisions: Evidence from Mobile Money in Afghanistan” (withJoshua Blumenstock, Michael Callen, and Tarek Ghani)The Review of Economics andStatistics(2024) 106 (2): 352-369“Can Community Crime Monitoring Reduce Student Absenteeism?” (with SarahKomisarow)Education Finance and Policy(2023) 18 (2): 319–350“Are socio-demographic and economic characteristics good predictors of misinformationduring an epidemic?” (with Elisa Maffioli)PLOS Global Public Health(2022) 2(3)“Cell Phone Access and Election Fraud: Evidence from a Spatial Regression Disconti-nuity Design in Afghanistan”American Economic Journal: Applied Economics(2021)13 (2): 1-51“Community Monitoring and Crime: Evidence from Chicago’s Safe Passages Pro-gram”(with Sarah Komisarow)Journal of Public Economics(2020) 191“Loss in the Time of Cholera: Long-run Impact of a Disease Epidemic on the UrbanLandscape” (with Attila Ambrus and Erica Field)American Economic Review(2020)110 (2): 475-525
  2. “Infant Mortality Rate as a Measure of a Country’s Health: A Robust Method toImprove Reliability and Comparability” (with Donna Gilleskie)Demography(2017)54:2 p.701-720WORKINGPAPERS“Cell Phone Access and Insurgent Violence: Evidence from a Radio Propagation Modelin Afghanistan”, with Ryan Ellis and Lin Yang (Submitted)“Mobile Phone Access and Gender Norms” with Ahmad Mobariz and Seung-Hun Chun“Polling Place Matters: How Voting Location Influences Election Fraud” with KellyLifchez and Tannishtha GhoshWORKS INPROGRESS“The Role of Audits on Election Fraud” (Data analysis stage)“Crime and Crime Perceptions: Evidence from Chicago” with Felipe Rocha Camposand Mo Sarabian“Epidemic Shocks and Spatial Mobility: Evidence from the 2014 West Africa EbolaOutbreak” with Elisa Maffioli (Data collected)OTHERPUBLICATIONS“Infant mortality in Cuba: Myth and Reality.”Cuban Studies(2015): 19-39. Universityof Pittsburgh Press.TEACHINGEXPERIENCEUndergraduate Development (Georgia Tech) Spring 2025Development Economics (Georgia Tech)–PhD level Spring 2022, 2023, 2024Econometrics (Georgia Tech) Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, 2024Economics of Terrorism (U. South Carolina) Spring 2020Economic Development (U. South Carolina)–PhD level Spring 2018, Fall 2019Applied Econometrics (U. South Carolina)–Masters level Spring 2017International Development Economics (U. South Carolina) Fall 2016, 2017, 2018Economic Statistics (UNC-Chapel Hill) Summer 2012, 2013Participant, Teacher Training Program (UNC-Chapel Hill) Spring 2012FIELDEXPERIENCEAccra, Ghana Summer 2023Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Fall 2017, Summer 2019Monrovia, Liberia Summer 2017Madhya Pradesh, India Summer 2014FELLOWSHIPSAND AWARDSGeorgia Tech Faculty Excellence in Research Award 2024Diversity Initiatives (DITE) Fellowship 2023REStat NBER Summer Institute Fellowship 2022Graduate Student Dissertation Workshop, selected participant (WEAI) 2015Dissertation Completion Fellowship (UNC-CH) 2015Initiative for Minority Excellence Doctoral Candidacy Award (UNC-CH) 2015Odum Institute Graduate Student Fellowship (UNC-CH) 2014Kampf Travel Award (UNC-CH) 2014Initiative for Minority Excellence travel award (UNC-CH) 2014Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate Fellowship 2010-2011GRANTSGeorgia Tech Sustainability Education grant ($10,000) 2023International Growth Center (IGC) exploratory grant ($8,000) 2023Georgia Tech Covid Faculty Relief Grant ($10,000) 2023
  3. International Growth Center (IGC) Fostering trust in state authorities ($21,000) 2021University of South Carolina Provost grant ($19,433) 2018Darla Moore School of Business research grants ($5,000 X 5) 2016-2020UNC-Chapel Hill University Library research grant ($5,000) 2014Graduate and Student Professional Federation Travel Grant 2014JOURNALSREFEREEDAmerican Economic Review: Insights,AEJ: Applied Economics,Journal of Develop-ment Economics,Economic Development and Cultural Change,The Economic Journal,Journal of Urban Economics,Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,Jour-nal of Health Economics,Journal of Comparative Economics,Oxford Economic Papers,Review of Income and Wealth,Economics of Transition,American Journal of HealthEconomics,Health Policy and Planning, Regional Science and Urban Economics,Ap-plied Economics,China Economic ReviewPROFESSIONALPRESENTATIONSMWIEDC, University of Illinois Mar. 2025Bureau of Conflict & Stabilization Operations, Department of State Mar. 2025Econometric Society, Summer Meeting, Vanderbilt University Jun. 2024SEEDS, Georgia Institute of Technology Apr. 2024DevSouth, UT-Knoxville Apr. 2024University of Georgia, Applied Econ Mar. 2024Southern Economic Association (SEA) Meeting Nov. 2023Diversity Initiatives for Tenure (DITE) Summer Workshop Aug. 2023SEEDS, Georgia Institute of Technology Apr. 2023Diversity Initiatives for Tenure (DITE) Spring Workshop Apr. 2023SIDEW, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Mar. 2023Southern Economic Association (SEA) Nov. 2022Global Development Week, Georgia Tech Oct. 2022Econometric Society North American Meeting, University of Miami Jul. 2022Federal Communications Commission (FCC) seminar Apr. 2022Virtual Crime Economics (ViCE) seminar Apr. 2022Eastern Economic Association meeting May 2022Georgia Tech Technologies and International Development (T+ID) Lab Mar. 2022PacDev 2021, UC San Diego (online) Mar. 2021Online Economics of Crime Seminar Feb. 2021Georgia Institute of Technology (online) Jan. 2021UC-Santa Cruz (online) Jan. 2021SEEDS, Georgia Institute of Technology (canceled) Apr. 2020Econometric Society Winter Meeting, Erasmus School of Economics Dec. 2019Clemson University, Clemson, SC Feb. 2019IGC Week, London School of Economics Jun. 2016PacDev 2016, Stanford Center for International Development (SCID) Mar. 2016Rutgers University Jan. 2016University of South Carolina Jan. 2016International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Jan. 2016NEUDC 2015, Brown University Nov. 2015SITE 2015, Stanford University Aug. 2015AEA Summer Mentoring Pipeline Conference, University of New Mexico Jul. 201590th Annual Conference of the WEAI Jun. 2015IPHD, Duke University Apr., 2015Southern Economic Association (SEA) Nov. 2014, 2015Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE) Aug. 2013, 2014Southern Economic Association (SEA) Nov. 2013Graduate Student Research Conference, George Mason University Mar. 2013
  4. SOFTWAREStata, ArcGIS, ArcPy, QGISLANGUAGESEnglish (Fluent), Spanish (Native)
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