Current Position
Since Fall 2025 Associate Professor, Boise State University, College of Business and Economics, Department of Economics.
Education
2014 PhD in Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation title: “Essays on Entrepreneurship and Management.” Committee: Darren Lubotsky (chair), Murillo Campello, Roger Koenker, Richard Akresh, and Ron Laschever.
2006 Master in Economics, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Thesis title: “Permanence, Transition, Vulnerability? Three essays on poverty dynamics in Brazil”
Advisor: Ana Flávia Machado
2003 Bachelor in Economics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Thesis title: “Social and cultural determinants of capabilities: The effect of ‘traditions’ in Encruzilhada do Sul, Brazil”
Advisor: Lovois de Andrade Miguel
Work Experience
2022-2025 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Boise State University.
2021-2022 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Boise State University.
2014-2021 Assistant Professor of Finance, Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam.
2011-2013 Research Assistant for Prof. Darren Lubotsky, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois.
2009 Research Intern, Office of Evaluation and Oversight, Inter-American Development Bank.
2006-2008 Associate Researcher, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG), United Nations Development Programme.
Fellowships and Awards
2024 Honored Faculty by Top Ten Scholar, Boise State University.
2021 Nominated, University of Amsterdam Lecturer of the Year.
2018 SBE Best Paper in Applied Microeconomics, 2nd prize, Brazilian Econometric Society.
2017 SBE Best Paper in Applied Microeconomics, Brazilian Econometric Society.
2015 RCFS Best Paper Award, Society for Financial Studies (SFS).
2013 McNatt Memorial Award for Outstanding Student in Labor Economics, Department of Economics, University of Illinois.
2013 Lemann Graduate Fellowship for Brazilian Studies, Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies, University of Illinois.
2012 Medal for Research on Development: Social Protection and Social Policies, 2nd Prize, Global Development Network (GDN).
2011-12 Robert Willis Harbeson Memorial Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Economics, University of Illinois.
2010 List of Teachers Rated as Excellent by their Students, Department of Economics, University of Illinois.
2010 Tinker Field Research Grant, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, University of Illinois.
2010 Summer Research Award, Department of Economics, University of Illinois.
2008-09 Jorge Paulo Lemann Ph.D. Scholarship, Department of Economics, University of Illinois.
2008 Best Academic Article on Labor Market, Prêmio Valores do Brasil, Bank of Brazil.
2007 29th Brazilian National Award for Master Theses in Economics, 5th prize, Brazilian Development Bank.
Research Grants and Contracts
2021-2022 International Labour Organization (ILO), “Using Pseudo-Panels to Analyse Labour Market Transitions.”
2020 University of Amsterdam (UvA), a Sustainable Future (ASF) initiative, “Are Stakeholders Aware of the (Environmental) Risk?”
2010-2011 World Bank, “Job Quality and Wage Mobility in Brazil,” with Ana Flávia Machado.
Publications
See Publications
Working Papers
See Working Papers
Teaching Experience
Boise State University, College of Business and Economics, Department of Economics:
Instructor, Principles of Macroeconomics (undergraduate course), since Fall 2021.
Course designer and instructor, Business Economics (MBA course), since Spring 2022.
Course designer and instructor, Time Series Econometrics (MSc course), Spring 2022.
Course designer and instructor, Money and Banking (undergraduate course), since Fall 2022.
Advisor, Master in Economics, 2 advised students since 2022.
Supervisor, College Fed Challenge, since Fall 2024.
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Business School, Finance Group:
Course designer and coordinator, Entrepreneurial Finance (MSc course), from Spring 2015 to 2021.
Course designer and coordinator, Research Laboratory (BA course), from Spring 2019 to 2021.
Course coordinator, Fixed Income Risk Management (MSc course), from Spring 2016 to 2020.
Instructor, Empirical Methods in Finance (MSc course), Spring 2018.
Course coordinator, International Corporate Finance (MSc course), Spring 2017.
Course coordinator, International Financial Economics (MSc course), Spring 2015 and 2016.
Supervisor, Master in Entrepreneurship, 11 supervised students from 2016 to 2020.
Supervisor, Master in Finance, 28 supervised students from 2017 to 2021.
Supervisor, Master in Business Economics, 14 supervised students from 2015 to 2019.
Supervisor, Bachelor in Business Economics, 11 supervised students from 2015 to 2017.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
Teaching assistant, Macroeconomic Theory I (PhD course), Fall 2010.
Teaching assistant, Economic Statistics II (undergraduate course), Spring 2010 and 2011.
Teaching assistant, Quantitative Finance (MSc course), Summer 2011, 2012, and 2013.
Invited Presentations and Workshops
2024 Presentation: Mariana Talks (UFOP).
2023 Presentation: Unicamp-USP-Insper Workgroup “Science of Science”.
2021 Presentations: Boise State University, CEFER – Bank of Lithuania, Ghent University, American University of Paris, Utrecht University.
2018 Presentations: Catholic University of Brasília (UCB), São Paulo School of Economics (EESP-FGV).
2018 Workshop: “The Economics of Entrepreneurship,” Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil.
2017 Presentations: Maastricht University and United Nations University, Syracuse University.
2017 Workshops: “The Economics of Entrepreneurship,” Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil; “Assessing Startup Financial Needs” and “Valuation for Startups,” Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE), Ready to Start Program.
2015 Presentation: World Bank Impact Evaluation Workshop on “Trade and Competiveness” in Istanbul.
2014 Presentations: PUC-Rio, University of Amsterdam, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazilian Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA), IDRC/IPC Seminar on “Social protection, entrepreneurship and labour market activation: Evidence for better policies.”
2014 Workshop: “Econometric Methods for Impact Evaluation,” Social Contract Center, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, and the Egyptian Information and Decision Support Center, Cairo, Egypt.
Journal Referee
Nature Human Behaviour, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Banking and Finance, Labour Economics, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, European Journal of Development Research, Journal of Real Estate Research, Journal of Economic Inequality, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Small Business Economics, Journal of Corporate Finance, British Accounting Review, Review of Development Economics, International Journal of Strategic Property Management, International Social Science Journal, Economic Change and Restructuring, Journal of Development Effectiveness, Sustainable Futures, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Estudios de Economia, CEPAL Review
Member of Scientific Committee
2022 Brazilian Econometric Society (SBE), Fortaleza.
2016 Financial Management Association (FMA), Las Vegas.
2015 Financial Management Association (FMA), Orlando.
2015 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA), Undergraduate Student Section's Paper Competition, San Francisco.
External Reviewer
2020 Israel Science Foundation (ISF).
2018 Macmillan International Higher Education, Reviewer of book proposal.
2017 Cambridge University Press, Reviewer of book proposal.
2016 Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP), Reviewer of Working Paper Series.
2015 National Science Foundation (NSF), Political Science Program.
2012 International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), Social Protection Thematic Window.
Conference Presentations
Southern Economic Association (SEA) Annual Conference, Tampa, 2025 (scheduled).
Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) Conference, St. Paul, 2025 (scheduled).
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) Summer Conference, Santa Ana Pueblo, 2025.
Annual Conference of the Banco Central do Brasil (BCB), Brasília, 2025.
22nd Midwest International Economic Development Conference (MWIEDC), Urbana, 2025.
43rd Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) Fall Conference, Austin, 2022.
Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting, Denver, 2021.
32nd Meeting of the Academy of Entrepreneurial Finance (AEF), Los Angeles, 2021.
RIDGE Forum, the Economics of Crime Workshop, Virtual, 2021.
North American Summer Meeting (NASMES), Virtual, 2021.
26th Society of Labor Economists (SOLE) Conference, Philadelphia, 2021.
20th Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet (LAGV), Marseille, 2021.
5th Entrepreneurial Finance Association (ENTFIN) Conference, Virtual, 2021.
37th International Conference of the French Finance Association (AFFI), Virtual, 2021.
Behavioural Finance Working Group (BFWG), London, Queen Mary University, 2021.
8th Research Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) Conference: Future of Growth, Waterloo, 2021.
European Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society (EWMES), Virtual, 2020.
RIDGE Forum, Political Economy of Conflict and Crime Workshop, Lima, 2020.
12th World Congress of the Econometric Society, Milan, 2020.
EALE-SOLE-AASLE World Conference, Berlin, 2020.
4th Law and Economic Policy International Workshop (L&EPIW), Paris, 2019.
14th Meeting of the Urban Economics Association (UEA), Philadelphia, 2019.
11th Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime (TWEC), Amsterdam, 2019.
31st European Association of Labour Economists Conference (EALE), Uppsala, 2019.
72nd European Meeting of the Econometric Society (ESEM), Manchester, 2019.
9th European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association, Amsterdam, 2019.
UChicago-LSE Conference on the Economics of Crime and Justice, Chicago, 2019.
Royal Economic Society Annual Conference (RES), University of Warwick, 2019.
45th Eastern Economic Association Annual Meetings (EEA), New York, 2019.
European Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society (EWMES), Naples, 2018.
North East Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference, Ithaca, 2018.
53rd AREUEA-ASSA Conference, Philadelphia, 2018.
12th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS), Ithaca, 2017.
Cambridge-Florida-Singapore Real Estate Finance and Investment Symposium, Singapore, 2017.
70th European Meeting of the Econometric Society (ESEM), Lisbon, 2017.
34th Annual Conference of the European Association of Law & Economics (EALE), London, 2017.
AREUEA International Conference, Amsterdam, 2017.
7th Annual Meeting of the America Latina Crime and Policy Network (AL CAPONE), Santiago, 2017.
16th Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet (LAGV), Aix-en-Provence, 2017.
Others: Stata Conference, Chicago, 2016; 68th European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Toulouse, 2014; Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting (AAEA), Minneapolis, 2014; North America Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Minneapolis, 2014; 9th IZA/World Bank Conference on Employment and Development, Lima, 2014; GDN 14th Annual Global Development Conference, Manila, 2013; Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association Meeting (LACEA), Santiago, 2011; 6th IZA/World Bank Conference on Employment and Development, Mexico City, 2011; Mind the Gap Conference on Impact Evaluation, 3ie, Cuernavaca, 2011; Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting (EEA), New York, 2011; Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) International Conference, Manchester, 2010.