Research

Publications

“The Value of Private Schools: Evidence from Pakistan” (with Pedro Carneiro and Jishnu Das), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01237

"Fluctuations in the wage gap between vocational and general secondary education: lessons from Portugal" (with Joop Hartog and Pedro Raposo), Journal Population Economics, 2021 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-021-00846-1

"Girls' Schooling Choices and Home Production: Evidence from Pakistan”, International Economic Review, 2020, vol. 61(2), pages 783-819, May.

“Please call me John: The First name and assimilation of immigrants in the United States” (with Pedro Carneiro and Simon Lee), Labour Economics 62, 2020.

“Hedonic Prices Indexes for New Passenger Cars in Portugal (1997-2001)” (with J. Santos Silva), Economic Modelling 23, 2006.

Working Papers

“Learning Through Repetition? A Dynamic Evaluation of Grade Retention in Portugal”, 2022, (with Emilio Borghesan and Petra Todd), PIER Working Paper 22-030, Penn Institute for Economic Research, University of Pennsylvania.

"Who's got the power? Wage determination and its resilience in the Great Recession", 2022 (with Hugo A. Vilares), CEP Discussion paper 1885, Centre for Economic Performance - London School of Economics and Political Science.

"Human Capital Spillovers and Returns to Education", 2022, (with Ana Rute Cardoso, Paulo Guimarães, and Pedro Portugal, Banco de Portugal Working Paper No19.

"Survival of the fittest: Tourism Exposure and Firm Survival", 2022, (with Filipe B. Caires and Paulo M. M. Rodrigues). Working paper No06, Banco de Portugal, Economics and Research Department.

"Which Entrepreneurs are Financially Constrained?", 2019, (with Ferreira, Miguel Almeida and Lopes, Marta and Queiró, Francisco). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3543021 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3543021

“The returns to schooling unveiled”, 2018, IZA Discussion Paper No. 11419 (with Pedro Portugal, Ana Rute Cardoso and Paulo Guimarães).

Work in Progress

“A tale of two genders: gender-based inequality in Portugal” (with Mónica Costa Dias and Maria Manuel Campos)

“Evaluating a program supporting educational development in socially segregated and excluded areas in Portugal: Evidence from ETPI” (with Pedro Carneiro)

“Intergenerational Mobility in Europe” (with Pedro Carneiro)

“Firm R&D Dynamics” (with Luca Opromolla)

Other Publications

“Revisiting Returns to Education in Portugal” in Banco de Portugal Economic Studies (2) Volume III, April 2017 (with Maria Manuel Campos).

“Grade retention during basic education in Portugal: determinants and impact on student achievement”, (with M. Pereira), Banco de Portugal Economic Bulletin – June 2014

“What accounts for Portuguese regional differences in students’ performance? Evidence from OECD PISA”, (with M. Pereira), Banco de Portugal Economic Bulletin – Winter 2012.

“Business Cycle at a Sectoral Level – The Portuguese case”. Banco de Portugal working paper series (WP. 09-05).

“Sectoral Specialisation in the EU: a macroeconomic perspective”, MPC task force of the ESCB, July 2004, ECB Occasional paper series nº 19.

Book Chapters

“Determinantes da desigualdade no desempenho escolar em países da OCDE”, in A Escola e o desempenho dos alunos, Luís Catela Nunes (ed.), Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, Capítulo 1. (only available in Portuguese)