Papers
Enforcing Compliance with Labor Regulations and Firm Outcomes: Evidence from Brazil (with Prado and Van Doornik), 2025, Journal of Development Economics
Labor Market Effects of UI and UBI in Developing Economies (with Cunha, Gallego and Van Doornik), R&R, International Economic Review
Severance Savings Accounts and Life-Cycle Savings (with Luis Bettoni and Rafael Azevedo), 2024, Economic Theory
Unemployment Insurance, Informality, and Precautionary Savings (with Caio Bloise), Rej&R, Review of Economic Dynamics
Optimal Notional Defined Contributions (with Carlos da Costa), 2024, Journal of Money, Credit and Baking
How do transfers and universal basic income impact the labor market and inequality? (with Christopher Rauh), R&R, AEJ: Macro
Progressive Consumption Taxes (with Carlos da Costa), 2023, Journal of Public Economics
Redistribution with Labor Market Frictions (with Carlos da Costa and Lucas Maestri), 2022, Journal of Economic Theory
Optimal Fiscal Policy in Incomplete Market Business Cycle Economies (with Luis Bettoni), 2023, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
The Effects of Public Sector Employment on Household Savings and Labor Supply (with Luis Bettoni) , 2023, Macroeconomic Dynamics
Trade, Structural Transformation and Growth in China (with Pedro Ferreira and Leonardo Silva), R&R, Economic Modelling
Manager Education and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Brazil, 2023, Economic Bulletin
Public Sector Employment and Aggregate Fluctuations (with Luis Bettoni), 2022, Journal of Macroeconomics
The impact of microcredit on small firms in Brazil (with Bettoni and Oliveira Filho), 2023, Journal of Policy Modeling
(Mis)Allocation Effects of an Overpaid Public Sector (with Tiago Cavalcanti). 2021, The Journal of the European Economic Association
On the Determinants of Slum Formation (with Tiago Cavalcanti and Daniel da Mata). 2019, Economic Journal.
Age-Dependent Taxes with Endogenous Human Capital Formation (with Carlos E. da Costa). 2018, International Economic Review.
Globalization and the Industrial Revolution (with Pedro C Ferreira and Samuel Pessoa). 2016, Macroeconomic Dynamics, PDF
The Effect of Social Security, Health, Demography and Technlogy on Retirement (with Pedro C Ferreira), 2013, Review of Economic Dynamics. PDF
Human Capital Formation and Criminal Behavior: The Role of Early Childhood Education, 2012, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. PDF
The Impact of AIDS on Income and Human Capital (with Pedro C Ferreira and Samuel Pessoa), 2011, Economic Inquiry. PDF
Moving to a Consumption-Based Tax System: A Quantitative Assessment for Brazil (with Tiago Pereira), 2010, Revista Brasileira de Economia. PDF
Labor Supply, Criminal Behavior and Income Redistribution, 2009, Brazilian Review of Econometrics. PDF
Work in progress
Credit Market Frictions and Production Network (with Tiago Cavalcanti, Angelo Mendes, and Pierluca Pannella)
Public Sector Employment, Education Mismatch and Inequality (with Luis Bettoni)
Effects of the Minimum Wage on Inequality in the Presence of Informal Sector (with Tiago Cavalcanti and Alexey Gorn)
Education and Growth in African Countries (with Pedro Ferreira and Leonardo Fonseca)
Misallocation of Talents and Productivity Growth in Brazil.
Fiscal Policy Rigidities and Sovereign Default (with Bernardo Guimarães and Renato Fernandez)
Why are Interest Rates So High in Brazil? The Role of Demography and Social Security (with Marco Bonomo e Ricardo Brito)