Working Papers:
Optimal Age-based Policies for Pandemics: An Economic Analysis of Covid-19 and Beyond, June 2025.
(with L. Brotherhood, P. Kircher and M. Tertilt)
Revised and resubmitted (3rd round) to Review of Economic Studies.
Previously circulated as "An economic model of the Covid-19 epidemic: Behavior, testing and policies" (Link)
Previously circulated also as "An economic model of the Covid-19 epidemic: The importance of testing and age-specific policies" (Link)
Financing Costs and Development, November 2023.
(with T. Cavalcanti, J. Kaboski and B. Martins)
R&R at American Economic Review.
Monetary Policy and Labor Markets in a Developing Economy, August 2024.
(with D. Gomes, F. Iachan and A. P. Ruhe)
R&R at Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.
Women at Work: Fertility, Occupational Choice and Income, January 2025.
(with T. Cavalcanti, L. Fernandes and L. Rachter)
Job Quality, Search, and Optimal Unemployment Contracts, December 2024.
(with C. da Costa and L. Maestri)
Labor Market Regulation and Informality, December 2023.
(with L. Brotherhood, D. Da Mata, N. Guner and P. Kircher)
Consumer Loans, Heterogenous Interest Rates, and Inequality, August 2024.
(with M. Bonomo, T. Cavalcanti, F. Chertman, A. Fantinatti and A. Hannon)
Arepas are not Tacos: On the Labor Markets of Latin America, August 2025.
(with M. Aristizábal-Ramírez and A. Torres)
Publications:
Climate Change Mitigation Policies: Aggregate and Distributional Effects, Economic Journal, 2025, 135(668), 1341-1387.
(with T. Cavalcanti and Z. Hasna)
How Families Matter for Understanding Economic Inequality, The IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities, May 2023.
(with M. Tertilt)
Also available at Oxford Open Economics, 2024, 3, i678-i683.
A Note on Contraception, Social Norms and Growth, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2023, 27(3), 869-878.
(with T. Cavalcanti and G. Kocharkov)
Vaccines and Variants: A Comment on “Optimal Age-Based Vaccination and Economic Mitigation Policies for the Second Phase of the Covid-19 Pandemic", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2022, 140, 104303.
(with L. Brotherhood)
Slums and Pandemics, Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 157, 102882.
(with L. Brotherhood, D. Da Mata and T. Cavalcanti)
On the Cleansing Effect of Recessions and Government Policy: Evidence from Covid-19, European Economic Review, 2022, 144, 104097.
(with N. Kozeniauskas and P. Moreira)
Family Planning and Development: Aggregate Effects of Contraceptive Use, Economic Journal, 2021, 131(634), 624-657.
(with T. Cavalcanti and G. Kocharkov)
Labor Earnings Dynamics in a Developing Economy with a Large Informal Sector, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2020, 113, 103854.
(with D. Gomes and F. Iachan)
An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic, Econometrica, 2019, 87(4), 1081-1113.
(with J. Greenwood, P. Kircher and M. Tertilt)
NBER WP with Bayesian Learning
Education Quality and Returns to Schooling: Evidence from Migrants in Brazil, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2019, 67(3), 439-459.
(with L. Brotherhood and P. Ferreira)
The Role of Marriage in Fighting HIV: A Quantitative Illustration for Malawi, American Economic Review P&P, 2017, 107(5), 158-162.
(with J. Greenwood, P. Kircher and M. Tertilt)
"Why Not Settle Down Already?" A Quantitative Analysis of the Delay in Marriage, International Economic Review, 2016, 57(2), 425-452.
(with D. Weiss)
Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation, AEJ: Macro, 2016, 8(1), 1-41.
(with J. Greenwood, N. Guner and G. Kocharkov)
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Marry your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality (Revised Version), originally published in American Economic Review P&P, 2014, 104(5), 348-353.
(with J. Greenwood, N. Guner and G. Kocharkov)
Publications in Brazilian Journals:
Universal Basic Income in a Developing Economy with a Large Informal Sector, Brazilian Review of Econometrics, 2021, 41(1), 44-68.
(with O. Rubião)
Heterogeneity and the Energy Consumption of Brazilian Households: A Structural Analysis, Brazilian Review of Econometrics, 2019, 39(1), 60-84.
(with M. Weiss and G. Zimmermann)
Casamentos Seletivos e Desigualdade de Renda no Brasil, Revista Brasileira de Economia, 2017, 71 (3), 361-377.
(with L. Pereira)
Migração e Distribuição Regional de Renda no Brasil, Pesquisa e Planejamento Econômico, 2007, 37 (3), 405-425.
(with P. Ferreira)