Daniela Viana Costa
Daniela Viana Costa
Curriculum Vitae
March 2022
Email: danielav@wharton.upenn.edu
URL: https://sites.google.com/site/danielavianacosta/home
Employment
Economist Penn Wharton Budget Model, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania 2017 - present
Education
Ph.D. Economics University of Minnesota 2017
M.A. Economics University of Minnesota 2016
M.A. Economics University of Brasilia 2011
B.A. Economics University of Brasilia 2008
Dissertation
Title: “Essays in International Economics”
Advisors: Professor Timothy Kehoe and Professor Manuel Amador (co-advisor)
Peer-reviewed Publications
Structural Transformation and Labor Productivity in Brazil, with Marcos Marcolino. Brazilian Review of Economics (RBE), vol. 75, 4, 2021.
Macroeconomic Effects of Medicare, with Juan Carlos Conesa, Parisa Kamali, Timothy Kehoe, Vegard Nygaard, Gajen Raveendranathan, and Akshar Saxena. The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, vol. 11, 2018.
Working Papers
Immigration and the Macroeconomy, with Efraim Berkovich and Austin Herrick. Penn Wharton Budget Model, PWBM Working Paper Series, Working Paper, 2022-01, 2022.
North-North Migration and Agglomeration in the European Union 15, with Maria Jose Rodriguez. Banco de Mexico, Working Papers, No 2020-07, 2020.
Policy Work
COVID-19 Learning Loss: Long-run Macroeconomic Effects Update, with Efraim Berkovich, Maddison Erbabian, and Youran Wu. October 27, 2021.
Economic Effects from Preschool and Childcare Programs, with Efraim Berkovich, Maddison Erbabian, and Youran Wu. August 23, 2021.
Effects of President Biden’s Unauthorized Immigrant Legalization Proposal on SNAP and Payroll Tax, with Efraim Berkovich. July 2, 2021.
COVID-19 School Closures: Long-run Macroeconomic Effects, with Efraim Berkovich, Maddison Erbabian, and Youran Wu. May 17, 2021.
Demographic and Economic Effects of President’s Biden Proposal to Legalize Immigrants, with Austin Herrick. March 31, 2021.
Direct Aid in the Biden COVID Relief Plan: Budgetary and Distributional Effects, with Alex Arnon, Efraim Berkovich, Zheli He, Austin Herrick, Jon Huntley, Marcos Dinerstein, Victoria Osorio, Richard Prisinzano, and John Ricco. February 3, 2021.
Macroeconomic Effects of the $1.9 Trillion Biden COVID Relief Plan, with Alex Arnon, Efraim Berkovich, Zheli He, Austin Herrick, Jon Huntley, Marcos Dinerstein, Victoria Osorio, Richard Prisinzano, and John Ricco. February 3, 2021.
PWBM Budget Contest: TEACHUP Early Childhood Education Grants, with Victoria Osorio and Austin Herrick. January 19, 2021.
Macroeconomic Effects of Biden’s Immigration Policy, with Efraim Berkovich and Austin Herrick. September 24, 2020.
PWBM Analysis of the Biden Platform, with Alex Arnon, Efraim Berkovich, Marcos Dinerstein, Maddison Erbabian, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Yan He, Zheli He, Austin Herrick, Jon Huntley, Victoria Osorio, Richard Prisinzano, Minh Quach, Felix Reichling, John Ricco, Sophie Shin, Kent Smetters, Xiaoyue Sun, and Youran Wu. September 14, 2020.
Effects of the Closure Rule in PWBM’s Dynamic OLG Model. May 2019.
The Stages of Growth Revisited, Part 1: A General Framework and Taking Off into Growth, with Timothy Kehoe and Gajen Raveendranathan.
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Economic Policy Paper, 16-5, 2016.
The Stages of Growth Revisited, Part 2: Catching Up to and Joining the Economic Leader, with Timothy Kehoe and Gajen Raveendranathan.
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Economic Policy Paper, 16-6, 2016.
Work in Progress
“Immigrant and native labor cross-complementarity in a multi-sector framework.”
“From primary commodities to output fluctuations,” job market paper.
Presentations
2019 Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET) Conference
2018 CEBRA Workshop for Commodities and Macroeconomics
2017 Banco de Portugal, Portuguese Economic Journal (PEJ) Annual Meeting, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET) Conference, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2016 Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET) Conference
Computer Skills
MATLAB, Stata, R, Python, LaTex, Fortran, C++
Languages
English (fluent), French (fluent), Portuguese (native), Spanish (fluent)
Referee Experience
Economic Theory
Honors and Awards
July 2017 Grant for Visiting Researcher, Departamento de Estudos Economicos, Banco de Portugal
2011 - 2012 Einar Hardin Fellowship, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota
2009 - 2010 CAPES, Fellowship for Masters in Economics
Research Experience
2013 - 2017 Research Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Research Assistant to Professor Timothy J. Kehoe.
Summer 2013 Research Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Research Assistant to Professor Fatih Guvenen.
2007 – 2008 Research Assistant, Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brasília, Brazil. Research Assistant to Professor Adriana Amado.
Teaching Experience
2012 - 2013 Teaching Assistant, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Led recitation sections for Undergraduate level course Principles of Microeconomics.
2010 Instructor, Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brasília, Brazil. Instructor for Introduction to Economics at the Undergraduate level.
2008 Teaching Assistant, Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brasília, Brazil. Led recitation sections for Undergraduate level course Brazilian Economy.
2004-2006 Teaching Assistant, Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brasília, Brazil. Led recitation sections for Introduction to Economics at the Undergraduate level.
Personal Data
Citizenship: Brazilian (G-4 Visa)