Nicolás Suárez Chavarría

Ph.D. Candidate

Department of Economics, Stanford University

About me

I am a PhD candidate in Economics at Stanford University. I will be on the job market during the 2024-2025 academic year.

Interests

• Development Economics
• Public Economics
• Data Science
• Machine Learning

Education

• Ph.D. in Economics, 2025 (expected)

  Stanford University

• M.Sc. in Economics, 2018

  Universidad de Chile

• B.Sc. in Economics, 2016

  Universidad de Chile

Recent Publications

A New Perspective on Spatial Heterogeneity in African Development

Access to basic infrastructure is a critical component of quality of life and an important measure of economic development. However, …

Nicolás Suárez Chavarría

Sep 22, 2024

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Predicting asset ownership in Africa using satellite imagery

We predict asset ownership in Africa making use of Landsat-8 satellite imagery and ground truth data from the Demographic and Health …

Nicolás Suárez Chavarría, Othman Bensouda, Edoardo Lin

Dec 14, 2022

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Classroom composition and network effects: Evidence from a college special admission program in Chile

Using administrative data about the grades of Business and Economics undergraduate students from Chile, and exploiting the fact that …

Nicolás Suárez Chavarría

Oct 13, 2021

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Recent blog posts

Generalized 2SLS implementation in Stata

In this notebook I’m going to share a Stata implementation of the Generalized 2SLS procedure to estimate peer effects described in Bramoullé, Y., Djebbari, H., & Fortin, B. (2009). Identification of peer effects through social networks. Journal of econometrics, 150(1), 41-55..

Nicolás Suárez Chavarría

Last updated on Jul 21, 2023

Tutorial: Landsat-8 image download and visualization using Google Earth Engine and Python

In this tutorial I want to explain how to download and visualize Landsat-8 images using GEE and Python packages. I wrote this code originally for my “Using satellite and street level images to predict urban emissions” project, and I’m sharing it here because we struggled to download images in a simple and beginner friendly way.

Nicolás Suárez Chavarría

Last updated on May 24, 2020

A little Stata command to export tables to Excel

A Stata ADO file to export tables to Excel without the problems of Outreg2

Nicolás Suárez Chavarría

Apr 18, 2019