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EMPLOYMENT

Associate Professor, Sao Paulo School of Economics - FGV, Brazil, 2018-present.

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2017- 2018.

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2014-2017.

Associate Professor (with tenure), University of Ottawa, Department of Economics, 2014.

Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics, 2009-2014.

Lecturer in Economics, Tufts University, Department of Economics, 2009.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Economics, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 2009.

M.A. Economics (magna cum laude), Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 2004.

Complementary studies in Economics (magna cum laude), Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 2002.

B.A., Business Administration, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, 2000.

PUBLICATIONS

Do voters reward politicians for education expenditures? (with Matheus Assunção), Revista Brasileira de Economia, 76(1), Jan-Mar 2022, 10-29.

Do Ability Peer Effects Matter for Academic and Labor Market Outcomes? (with Andrea Lépine), Labour Economics, 71, August 2021, 102022. Accepted manuscript.

Assessing higher education policy in Brazil: a mixed oligopoly approach (with Elena del Rey), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 20(1), January 2020. Accepted manuscript.

Redistribution without distortion: evidence from a Brazilian university's affirmative action program (with Thomas Gall and Louis-Philippe Morin),The Economic Journal, 129(619), April 2019, 1182-1220. Accepted manuscript. Media coverage: Folha de São Paulo, Revista FAPESP, VoxBR.

Public Education Expenditures and Private School Enrollment, Canadian Journal of Economics, 48(2), May 2015, 561-584. Accepted manuscript.

The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Public Education Expenditures: A Political Economy Approach, European Journal of Political Economy, 32, December 2013, 268-284. Accepted manuscript.

Reshaping the Schooling System: The Role of Immigration (with Davide Dottori and I-Ling Shen), Journal of Economic Theory, 148(5), September 2013, 2124-2149. Accepted manuscript.

Conditional Cash Transfers and Education Quality in the Presence of Credit Constraints (with Elena Del Rey), Economics of Education Review, 34, June 2013, 76-84. Accepted manuscript.

Mortality risks, education and child labor (with Jean-Marie Baland), Journal of Development Economics, 84(1), September 2007, 118-137. Accepted manuscript.

Roundtable on Research and Higher Education in Economics Research and Higher Education in Economics: Can we Deliver the Lisbon Objectives? (with Jacques H. Drèze), Journal of the European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 5(2-3), April-May 2007, 271-304. Accepted manuscript.

WORKING PAPERS

The Top-Ten Way to Integrate High Schools (with Thomas Gall, Patrick Legros, and Andrew F. Newman), previously circulated as "College admission and high school integration".

Does exposure to more women in male-dominated fields render female students more career-oriented? (with Bruna Borges). Submitted.

Does It Matter Which Top Institution You Choose? A Case Study of Brazilian Graduate Admissions (with Kelly Santos). Submitted.

School closures and educational path: how the Covid-19 pandemic affected transitions to college (with Lucas Finamor). Submitted.

WORK IN PROGRESS

On the Road to Social Mobility? Affirmative Action and Major Choice (with Thomas Gall and Louis-Philippe Morin).

Intergeneration Human Capital Transmission and Poverty Traps (with Carmen Camacho).

Affirmative Action Outcomes: Evidence from a Law School in Brazil (with Ana Trindade Ribeiro).

When Diligence Backfires: Gender Differences in Prioritizing Rewarding Tasks (with Bruna Borges and Louis-Philippe Morin).

SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

Jul 7-Aug 5, 2019 Visiting scholar at University of Ottawa, Canada.

Sep 2018-Jan 2019 Visiting scholar at Institute for Economic Development, Boston University, USA.

Nov 21-Dec 7, 2018 Visiting scholar at University of Ottawa, Canada.

Nov 20-24, 2017 Visiting scholar at University of Southampton, UK.

Nov 13-19, 2017 Visiting scholar at University of Girona, Spain.

April 6-15, 2017 Visiting scholar at University of Ottawa, Canada.

Sep 15-24, 2016 Visiting scholar at University of Southampton, UK.

Nov 10-17, 2015 Visiting scholar at University of Southampton, UK.

Oct 17-Nov 9, 2015 Visiting scholar at University of Ottawa, Canada.

Feb 9-20, 2015 Visiting scholar at University of Girona, Spain.

Jul 17-Aug 13, 2013 Visiting scholar at Universidade de São Paulo (campus Ribeirão Preto), Brazil.

Apr 8-May 3, 2013 Visiting scholar at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.

Jul 20-27, 2012 Visiting scholar at University of Girona, Spain.

May 31-Jun 25, 2010 Visiting scholar at University of Girona, Spain.

March 15-25, 2010 Visiting scholar at Bonn University, Germany.

March 1-12, 2010 Visiting scholar at CEPS INSTEAD, Luxemburg.

Jan-Jun 2009 Visiting PhD student at Institute for Economic Development, Boston University, USA.

Feb-Oct 2007 Visiting PhD student at CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic.

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

FAPESP regular grant (Principal Investigator), 2021-2023: R$ 190,000.

SSHRC Insight Grant (Collaborator), 2020-2023: 93,270 CAD.

Haralambos Simeonidis Award, ANPEC, 2019.

CNPq research productivity fellowship, level 2, 2019-2022.

SPRINT FAPESP Mobility grant, 2017-2019.

FAPESP regular grant (Principal Investigator), 2016-2018: R$ 80,000.

Newton Advanced Fellowship (Principal Investigator), 2015-2017: £37,900.

SSHRC Insight Development Grant (Principal Investigator), 2013-2015: 65,000 CAD.

Research Development Program, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, 2010: 5,800 CAD.

Faculty of Social Sciences Start-Up Grant, University of Ottawa, 2009: 25,000 CAD.

Marie Curie Fellowship for Early Stage Research Training at CERGE-EI. European Union competitive grant: 20,000 euros.

Interuniversity Attraction Poles Prize at CORE for the paper “Mortality risks and child labor” (with Jean-Marie Baland), 2005. Prize received for the first chapter of the Ph.D. thesis subsequently published at Journal of Development Economics: 750 euros.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Service:

President, Brazilian Econometric Society, 2016-2017.

Coordinator, REAP “Education and Health,” 2017-2018.

Member of the Scientific Committee, Instituto Escolhas, 2017-.

Presentations at seminars/workshops/conferences:

2022: PUC-Rio; Universidad de la República.

2021: CEA Meeting; LEPES/ABAVE; LACEA Meeting.

2020: SBE Economia Aplicada; RioMais.

2019:AEA; UNICAMP; PUC-Rio; EBE.

2018: UFABC; IED Boston University; Lemann Center Stanford University; Center for Education Policy Analysis Stanford University; University of Ottawa.

2017: University of Ottawa; EESP-FGV; Seminario Internacional de Investigación, Icfes; University of Southampton, EEA Meeting.

2016: PET Meeting, REAP & SBE Meeting, Pathways to Social and Economic Welfare in Brazil Workshop.

2015: University of Namur; Heriot-Watt University; Insper; EESP-FGV; EPGE-FGV; University of Southampton; EBE.

2014: SCSE; CEA Meeting; PUC-Rio; IPEA-Rio; LACEA Meeting; EBE.

2013: Wilfrid Laurier University; Universidade de São Paulo; SCSE; CEA Meeting; PET Meeting; Universidade de São Paulo (campus Ribeirão Preto).

2012: CEA Meeting; NEUDC.

2011: CEA Meeting; IIPF Congress; EEA Meeting; NEUDC; UQAM.

2010:CEPS/INSTEAD;6th Workshop in Public Policy Design: Education (University of Girona); III Summer School in Public Economics: Economics of Education (IEB); LACEA Meeting.

2009: University of Ottawa;EUDN PhD Workshop (University of Oxford); BU Microeconomics Dissertation Workshop;EESP-FGV; IPEA-Brasília.

2008:Third Annual Conference on Development and Institutions (Brunel University); BREAD/CEPR/University of Verona Summer School in Development Economics; NEUDC (poster).

2007: CERGE-EI;EDP Jamboree.

2006: European University Institute;EDP Jamboree

2005: CORE-IDEI Conference on Public Economics; Journées de l'AFSE; LACEA Meeting.

LANGUAGES

Portuguese (Native), Spanish (Fluent), French (Fluent), English (Fluent).