Welcome to my simple but functional home page, such as it is. I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Demography and a researcher at CEDEPLAR at the University Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil). From september 2011 to july 2012, I will be on leave at the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth. This is my home on the web. This website has links to my CV, my research and other resources. I plan on having a collection of links to both demographic and non-demographic resources. In the near future, I will have a version of this site in Portuguese.

You can find a link to my CV in Portuguese here, and to my CV in English here, with links to my published papers. A CV in PDF is available here. 

I hold a Ph.D. in Demography from the University of California at Berkeley (2005). I specialize in economic demography, population aging, and mortality and health. I also have strong interests in demographic methods, indirect techniques, and regional and urban economics. Currently, my research is centered on studying retirement behavior and old age suport systems in developing countries. In particular, I am studying how demographic and institutional changes affect labor force participation and retirement behavior of workers in less developed economies and how societies are adjusting themselves to population aging.

I am part of the NTA Project. The aim of the project is to provide estimates of economic flows across age groups that arise primarily because children and the elderly consume more than they produce relying on reallocations from the working ages. NTA accounts distinguish the forms of these flows: as the accumulation of capital, as transfers, and as credit transactions. The accounts distinguish the institutions that mediate the transactions: governments, markets, and families. The web-site for the NTA Brazil can be found here. I am also working with Piedad Urdinola on a research project, partially funded by the Population Association of America and Fapemig to build a human mortality database for Latin American countries (more info here).