Research

Publications (international journals)

•  Inherited cultural diversity and wages: surname-based evidence (with Leonardo Monasterio),  Journal of Economic Geography, (forthcoming)        

coverage at: Exame, Revista FAPESP, english version

• Individualism and School Performance: Evidence from PISA Test Scores (with Fabiana Alves), Journal of Human Capital, (forthcoming)

• Skills and employment transitions in Brazil (with Leonardo Monasterio and Willian Adamczyk), International Labour Review, (2024)

• Fiscal decentralization and tax collection (with Thiago Caldeira and Tito Moreira), European Journal of Political Economy (2023)

• Regional estimates of residential electricity demand in Brazil (with Carlos Carrasco), International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, (2023)

• Economic impacts of winning electric power transmission auctions (with Lucas Brandão), Utilities Policy, (2022)

• Individualistic Culture and Entrepreneurial Opportunities  (with Daisy Assmann), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (2021)                 

• Live large or die young: subsidized loans and firm survival in Brazil, Empirical Economics, (2021)

coverage at: CNN, Valor Econômico, Exame

• Social and economic convergence across Brazilian states between 1990 and 2010 ,  (with Rubiane Almeida and Tito Moreira) Social Indicators Research, (2021)

• Spatial skill concentration agglomeration economies (with Leonardo Monasterio), Journal of Regional Science, (2021)

• Direct and indirect effects between Individualism, Institutions and the Homicide Rate (with Vinicius Zanchi and Daniel Maciel), Social Indicators Research, (2021)

• Internet Access in Recessionary Periods: The case of Brazil (with Thiago Silva, Florangela Coelho and Benjamin Tabak), Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, (2020)

• Skill concentration and persistence in Brazil (with Leonardo Monasterio), Regional Studies, (2019)

• International R&D Spillovers to the electric power industries (with Lucas Brandão), Energy, (2019)

• On the use of firm fixed effects as a productivity measure for analyzing labor market matching, Bulletin of Economic Research, (2019)

• Task trade and employment patterns: the offshoring and onshoring of Brazilian firms, Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, (2018)

• A breakdown of residual wage inequality in Germany: wage decompositions using worker-, plant-, region- and sector-specific determinants, Oxford Economic Papers, (2017)

• Agglomeration economies with consistent productivity estimates, Regional Science and Urban Economics (2013)

Publications (Brazilian journals)

• Comportamento do consumo e do preço de cigarro no Brasil: Uma análise dos impostos de 2006 a 2018 (with R. Reis and W. Monteiro), Revista Brasileira de Economia de Empresas (2024)

• Impacto da qualificação nas trajetórias profissionais dos servidores públicos federais (with P. Masson and V.  Souza), Revista de Serviço Público (2023)

• As mudanças nos fluxos migratórios e no perfil dos Migrantes entre 1980 e 2010 (with T. Campelo), Revista Razão Contábil & Finanças, (2023)

• National Development Banks and regional economic growth (with V. Zanchi and G. Pereira), Estudos Econômicos (2022) 

coverage at: Valor Econômico

• Efeitos econômicos da Zona Franca de Manaus (with Rogério Gonçalves), Pesquisa e Planejamento Econômico, (2021) 

coverage at: Folha de São Paulo, BNC, AFREBras

• O abastecimento de água e esgoto sanitário Brasileiro: A atuação das empresas públicas e privadas entre 2008 e 2018 (with Lee Viana) Revista Razão Contábil & Finanças, (2021)

• Análise de impacto do FIES sobre o salário do trabalhador formal (with Leonardo Monasterio and Wilsimara Rocha), Pesquisa e Planejamento Econômico, (2020)

• Colônias de povoamento versus colônias de exploração: de Heeren a Acemoglu (with Leonardo Monasterio) Análise Econômica, (2019)

coverage at: YouTube

• Minimum Comparable Areas for the period 1872-2010: An aggregation of Brazilian municipalities, Estudos Econômicos, (2017)

Supplementary material for AMC generation + Shape files + Update for 2020

Working Papers

• The Impact of Flash Floods on the Spatial Distribution of Firms and Workers (with Ricardo Lima and Pedro Alves) SBE Conference Version (2023) [ submitted ]

coverage at: Valor Econômico

• Internet Access in Brazil: A Machine Learning Approach (with Florângela Cunha and Thiago Christiano Silva) [ submitted ]

• The effect of patents and spillovers on industrial production in Brazil (with Vinicius Nonato and Paula Tofoli), ENEI Conference Version [ submitted ]

• Culturally Inherited Capital Structure and Productivity (with Rafael Ribas), SBE Conference version (2022)

• O Polo Industrial de Manaus e Desempenho Socioeconômico (with Rogério Gonçalves) EPRG Working Paper #98,  [ R & R ] 

• Distribuição de crédito e crescimento no Nordeste (with Rodrigo Portugal)  IPEA TD # 2678 [ R & R ]

• Management consulting and firm performance (with André de Castro), ANPEC Conference version, [ R & R ]  

• Paraguay’s suspension from Mercosur (with Jessica Milker and Thiago Christiano Silva) 

• General equilibrium trade effects from infrastructure quality (with Jessica Milker), ANPEC Conference version, (2020)

Policy Papers

• The effects of the illicit market on the price-elasticity of cigarette consumption in Brazil (with José Angelo Divino, Osvaldo Candido, and Marcos Valadão) Tobacco Control (2023)

• Design Evaluation of the Universalization Fund for Telecommunication Services in Brazil (with Leonardo Meira) GJHSS-Economics (2023)

• Effects of Curbing the Illicit Cigarette Market in Brazil (with José Angelo Divino, Osvaldo Candido,Marcos Valadão and German Iglesias) Tobacconomics Working Paper No. 23/2/2 (2023)

• Impacto da qualificação nas trajetórias profissionais dos servidores públicos federais, Relatório de Pesquisa da ENAP (2022)

• Tobacco Tax Reform and Demand-Switching Effects Between the Licit and Illicit Markets in Brazil, (with José Angelo Divino, Osvaldo Candido and Marcos Valadão) Tobacconomics Working Paper No. 22/8/1 (2022)

• Extended cost-benefit analysis of tobacco taxation in Brazil, (with José Angelo Divino, Osvaldo Candido and Marcos Valadão) Tobacco Control (2022)

• Effects of the Brazilian Tax Reform Plans on the Tobacco Market, (with José Angelo Divino, Osvaldo Candido and Marcos Valadão) Tobacco Control (2022) coverage at: ACTblog

• Assessing the Effects of a Tobacco Tax Reform on the Industry Price-Setting Strategy  (with J.A. Divino, O. Candido and M. Valadão) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2021)

• Simulation the effects of tobacco tax reforms in Brazil (with J.A. Divino, O. Candido and M. Valadão), Relatório de pesquisa da UCB (2020)

• O BNDES impediu a morte de empresas? (with Leonardo Monasterio), Boletim Regional, Urbano e Ambiental (2019)

• Internet Access in Brazilian Households: Evaluating the Effect of an Economic Recession (with Florângela Cunha Coelho and Thiago Christiano Silva), Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (2019)

• Qual foi o impacto do FIES nos salários? (with Wilsimara Rocha and Leonardo Monasterio), RADAR (2016)

• Asien, Lateinamerika: Verschiebt der Aufstieg der neuen Wachstumsmärkte das Kräfteverhältnis auf dem Weltmarkt? (with Michael Pflüger) ifo Schnelldienst (2013)

Work in Progress

• Are Stakeholders Aware of the (Environmental) Risk? (with Rafael Ribas) 

• Imported robots and tools create growth? (with Felipe Roriz) 

• Publicly traded companies as catalysts for public goods provision (with Yago Falcão and Edson Kondo)

• Technology, training, and transforming minds: Connecting a rural school in Brazil (with Carlos Charris and Carlos Carrasco)