Research
Working Papers
Air pollution and cognitive performance among children in Brazil , with Daniel Souza and Fabio Waltenberg.
Cultivating Progress: The Impacts of Credit for Agricultural Investment in Brazil , with Priscila Souza, Luciano Machado and Wagner Oliveira
Grade retention and academic outcomes: Evidence from Brazil, with Roberta Mendes and Tássia Cruz.
Vacinação contra COVID-19 de pessoas com deficiência no município do Rio de Janeiro: cenário e desafios atuais, with Paula Ramos. IEPS Working Paper #12. Paper
Publications
8 - Winds of Fire and Smoke: Air Pollution and Health in the Brazilian Amazon , with Rudi Rocha. 2022. World Development. Paper. Published Paper.
7 - Barren Lives: drought shocks and agricultural vulnerability in the Brazilian Semi-Arid, with Lucas Costa and Carlos Eduardo F. Young. 2022. Environment and Development Economics. Paper. Published Version.
6 - Environmental regulation and bail outs under weak state capacity: deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon , with Lucas Costa. August 2021. Ecological Economics. Paper. Published version
5 - The Threat of Communism during the Cold War: a constraint to income inequality? , with Leonardo Weller, April 2020. Comparative Politics. Paper. Appendix. Published version
Media coverage: The Guardian
4 - Social Norms and Female Labor Participation in Brazil, with Karen Codazzi and Valeria Pero, November 2018, Review of Development Economics. Top Downloaded Paper 2018-2019, one of the most read papers in Review of Development Economics.
3 - Not so natural: unequal effects of public policies on the occurrence of disasters, October 2018. Ecological Economics.
2 - Land inequality and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, February 2017. Environment and Development Economics.
1 - Credit scarcity in developing countries: An empirical investigation using Brazilian firm-level data, with Antônio Ambrozio, Filipe Sousa and João Paulo Faleiros, January 2017. EconomiA.
Articles in Portuguese
8 - Corra se for capaz: impactos de investimentos em saneamento sobre saúde, usando o tempo das obras como variação exógena, with Romero Rocha. Estudos Econômicos. 2022
7 - Investimentos em grandes plantas industriais: economias de aglomeração e efeitos spillover, with Ana Carolina Lima and Ricardo Martini. Econômica. 2021
6 - Fatos estilizados sobre o financiamento ao setor de água e esgoto no Brasil, with Romero Rocha, Leticia Pimentel and Marcelo Miterhof. Revista do BNDES. 2021
5 - Efeitos do BNDES sobre o crédito bancário entre 2006 e 2013: evidências com nas operações de repasse de recursos, with Gilberto Borça Jr and Victor Bridi de Souza, Revista do BNDES. 2016
4 - Direitos de Propriedade, Desmatamento e Conflitos Rurais na Amazônia, with Carlos Eduardo F. Young. Economia Aplicada. 2010.
Media coverage: CBN (Radio),
3 - Mercado de crédito no Brasil: evolução recente e o papel do BNDES (2004-2008). with Gilberto Borça Jr. and Pedro Quaresma. Revista do BNDES. 2009
2 - Decisões de financiamento via mercado de capitais no período 2004-2006. Revista do BNDES. 2008
1 - Notas sobre a literatura recente em crescimento e desigualdade. Revista de Economia Contemporânea. 2004
Invited Papers, Book Chapters and Selected Reports
Deforestation and Violence in Brazil, with Carlos Eduardo F. Young. In: Alexis T. Dantas, Waldemar Koziol, Renata Siuda-Ambroziak (editors). 2017
Property Rights, Deforestation and Violence: problems for the development of the Amazon, with Carlos Eduardo F. Young. 2014. Policy in Focus n. 29. IPC-UNDP.
Work in Progress
Does Decentralization Increase Tax Revenues? Evidence from Land Taxation in Brazil (with Arthur Bragança, Diogo Britto, Alexandre Fonseca, Breno Sampaio, and Dimitri Szerman)