Working papers:


Intergenerational Mobility in the Land of Inequality  [draft}   

(with  Diogo G. C. Britto , Paolo PinottiBreno Sampaio and Lucas Warwar)

The Review of Economics and Statistics  Revised and Resubmitted    

Op-Ed: VoxEU Column

Media Coverage: Folha de S. Paulo, Valor Econômico, TV Cultura, Record News, TV AssembleiaBrazilian Report.

Podcasts: Direito e Economia (Portuguese), Explaining Brazil (English)    


Job Loss, Unemployment Insurance and Health: Evidence from Brazil [IZA WP

(with Guilherme Amorim, Diogo G. C. Britto and Breno Sampaio )

The Review of Economics and Statistics  Revision Requested


Selected Work in Progress: 


Decentralization, Tax Administration and Taxation: Evidence from Brazil´s Rural Land Tax [Draft soon] (Presented at LACEA Annual Meeting, 2023; 8th Zurich Conference on Public Finance in Developing Countries, 2023 and 46ª SBE, 2024)

(with Arthur Bragança , Diogo G. C. Britto , D. Moura, Breno Sampaio ,André Sant'Anna , and Dimitri Szerman )


Family Connections, Nepotism and Political Bargaining

(with Yuri Barreto, Diogo G. C. Britto, Alexandre Fonseca, Manoel Gehrke and Paolo Pinotti)


Parenthood and Productivity: Evidence from Administrative data in Brazil (Presented at 45º SBE, 2023)

(with  Diogo G. C. Britto, Bruno Ferman, Alexandre Fonseca, Caio de Holanda and Lucas Warwar)


Elderly Health Shocks, Government Benefits, and Family Labor Market Spillovers

(with Guilherme Amorim, Diogo G. C. Britto and Breno Sampaio )


Conditional Cash Transfers and Intergenerational Mobility (Presented at 45º SBE, 2023)

(with Diogo G. C. Britto, Alexandre Fonseca, Paolo Pinotti, and Lucas Warwar)


Dry Lives: Climate Adaptation and Mortality in the Semi-arid Regions of Brazil

 (with Diogo G. C. Britto , Clément Imbert , Breno Sampaio and Gabriel Ulyssea )