Research
Working Papers
Optimal Age-based Policies for Pandemics: An Economic Analysis of Covid-19 and Beyond, with Philipp Kircher, Cezar Santos, and Michèle Tertilt R&R at The Review of Economic Studies
Media coverage: Folha de São Paulo (in Portuguese)
Previously circulated as “An economic model of the Covid-19 epidemic: The importance of testing and age-specific policies” (link)
Labor Market Policies, Regulation and Informality, with Daniel Da Mata, Nezih Guner, Philipp Kircher, and Cezar Santos
Publications
Government, Taxation and Economic Complexity, Applied Economics Letters, accepted, with Fernando Barros Jr, Fábio Gomes and Victor Rangel
Income-based affirmative action in college admissions, The Economic Journal, 2023, with Bernard Herskovic and João Ramos
Video presentation at the BID-IMDS-SBE 2022 Award (in Portuguese)
General audience: Nada es Gratis (in Spanish)
Firm behavior during an epidemic, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2023, with Vahagn Jerbashian
First version (July 2020): CESifo working paper
Video presentation in the course “Topics in Empirical Analysis and Economic Modeling Related to COVID-19” by Rubens Penha Cysne and Alexandre Madureira at FGV EPGE (in Portuguese)
Public overspending in higher education, Bulletin of Economic Research, 2022, with Bruno Delalibera and Luciene Torres
Slums and Pandemics, Journal of Development Economics, 2022, with Tiago Cavalcanti, Daniel Da Mata, and Cezar Santos
Brazilian Econometric Society prize in 2020: best applied macro paper (Cezar's video presentation – starts at 45:00)
I talk about this paper (and COVID research in Economics, in general) at the Abaixa o Tom podcast (in Portuguese)
Media coverage or general audience: Gavi (in English), Nada es Gratis (in Spanish)
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, with Cezar Santos
Economic complexity and corporate governance, Applied Economics Letters, 2020, with Fernando Barros Jr and Victor Rodrigues
Minding the Gap between Schools and Universities, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2020, with Bruno Delalibera
Returns to Schooling and Quality of Education in Brazil: Evidence from Migrants Data, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2019, with Pedro Cavalcanti Ferreira and Cezar Santos