Ph.D. in Economics, London Business School, UK, 2014.

Fields: Political Economy, Program Evaluation, Economics of Religion, Labor and Health Economics, Public Finance.

Publications

• Regional Transfer Multipliers (with Elias Papaioannou and Paolo Surico). The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 86, Issue 5, October 2019, Pages 1901–1934 [link]

  • • Featured  in VoxEU.org, May/2019

    • 2020 Haralambos Simeonidis prize for best paper in Economics by a Brazilian scholar

• Church Competition, Religious Subsidies and the Rise of Evangelicalism: a Dynamic Structural Analysis (with Fabio A. Miessi Sanches). Revise and Resubmit at the American Economic Journal:  Microeconomics.

  • • Featured  in Nexo Jornal, O Estado de São Paulo, Jornal USP

    • Best paper in Applied Microeconomics award at the 43rd Meeting of the Brazilian Econometric Society

• Edited Democracy: Media Manipulation and the News Coverage of Presidential Debates  (with Alexsandros Cavgias, Luis Meloni and Lucas Novaes), Forthcoming at Comparative Political Studies

• Natural Disasters and Preferences for the Environment: Evidence from the Impressionable Years  [link open version] (with Chiara Falco). Economics Letters, Volume 222, January 2023

• Female judges and in-group bias in labor courts (with Rafael Ferreira, Jaqueline Oliveira and Danilo Souza). Economics Bulletin, vol. 41(3), 2021.

• The Cost of Gendered Attitudes on a Female Candidate: Evidence from Google Trends (with Pedro Picchetti). Economics Letters, Volume 196, November 2020

• Unintended Consequences of Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from Stricter Eligibility Criteria in Brazil  (with Cristiano Carvalho and Renata Narita). Economics Letters, Volume 162, p. 157-161, 2018

Working papers

• Church Competition, Religious Subsidies and the Rise of Evangelicalism: a Dynamic Structural Analysis (with Fabio A. Miessi Sanches). Revise and Resubmit at the American Economic Journal:  Microeconomics.

  • • Featured  in Nexo Jornal Fev/2021 and O Estado de São Paulo, Apr/2021.

• Labor Courts, Job Search and Employment: Evidence from a Labor Reform in Brazil  (with Renata Narita, Danilo Souza and Rafael Ferreira). Draft coming soon.

  • • Featured  in CNN Business, Valor Econômico, UOL Economia, Crusoé 

• The Decline of Religiosity in America: Evidence from a Structural Model of Endogenous Church Differentiation (with Fabio A. Miessi Sanches).

• Payroll Tax, Employment and Labor Market Concentration (with Eric Baumgartner and Renata Narita). Submitted.

• Estimating the Employment and Educational Effects of Vocational Training: the Role of School Quality (with Cristiano Carvalho and Rodrigo De-Losso). Submitted.

• Internal Migration and Labor Market Adjustments in the Presence of Nonwage Compensation (with Tiago Ferraz and Renata Narita). Submitted

• When Are Politically Irrelevant Events Relevant to Election Outcomes?

In Progress

• The Gospel According to Media: Religious Radio and the Rise of Pentecostalism in Brazil  (with Bruno Komatsu).

• Size of Legislature, Public Spending and Political Budget Cycle.

• Natural Disasters and Preferences for the Environment: Evidence from the Impressionable Years (with Chiara Falco).

Other Publications

• • The Components of Economic Freedom, Income and Growth: an Empirical Analysis”. Estudos Econômicos, 2007, vol.37, n.3, pp. 515-545.

  • The Empirical Determinants of Happiness in Brazil (in portuguese, with Naercio A. Menezes-Filho). Revista de Economia Política, 2006, vol.26, n.4

Teaching 

• Econometrics II (undergraduate)

• Introduction to Microeconomics (undergraduate)

• Introduction to Macroeconomics (undergraduate)

• Econometrics I (graduate)

• Political Economy of Development (graduate)