I am an Associate Professor in the Deparment of Economics at Sao Paulo School of Economics-FGV.
My research focuses on topics in labor economics, health economics and applied microeconomics.
I can be contacted at blacaber8@hotmail.com
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Curriculum Vitae (here)
Research Papers
Cisterns for Life: Climate Adaptation Policies For Water Provision and Rural Lives (with Yuri Barreto, Diogo Britto, Daniel Da Mata, Lucas Emanuel, and Breno Sampaio) Ocotber 2025
Organizations and the Production Side of Gender Inequality: Evidence from Surgeons (with Danyelle Branco, Gustavo Cordeiro and Laisa Rachter) October 2025
Organizational Responses to Labor Turnover: Evidence from Hospitals (with Danyelle Branco, Luiz Fontes and Leticia Nunes) March 2025
Expertise Overlap and Team Productivity: Evidence from the Hospital Industry (with Danyelle Branco, Di Fang and Wilman Iglesias) April 2025
Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, Conditionally accepted
Minimum Wages and the Human Capital of the Next Generation (with Daniel Araujo, Wilman Iglesias, and Breno Sampaio) December 2024
Journal of Development Economics, Revise and Resubmit
Routine-Biased Technological Change and Endogenous Skill Investments (with Danyelle Branco and Wilman Iglesias) April 2024
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Conditionally accepted
Economic Production and the Persistence of Supernatural Beliefs, (with Daniel Araujo and Breno Sampaio) September 2023
Economic Journal, Reject and Resubmit
Low Birth Weight and Infant Mortality: Lessons from Brazil, (with Jose Féres) June 2017
Economic Shocks and Infant Health: Evidence from a Trade Reform in Brazil Trade (with Danyelle Branco and Carlos Charris) May 2023
Journal of Development of Economics, 2024
Moved to Poverty? A Legacy of Apartheid in South Africa, (with Carlos Charris and Wilman Iglesias), [Online_Appendix]
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023
The Long-Run Economic Consequences of Iodine Supplementation, (with Daniel Araujo and Breno Sampaio)
Journal of Health Economics, 2021
Present Bias and Underinvestment in Education? Long-run Effects of Childhood Exposure to Booms in Colombia, [LACEA Working Paper],
Journal of Labor Economics, 2020,
Provider Supply, Utilization, and Infant Health: Evidence from a Physician Distribution Policy (with Jose Feres) [Online_Appendix], [Replication Files], [HEDG Working Paper]
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019
Early Rainfall Shocks and Later-Life Outcomes: Evidence from Colombia, [HEDG Working Paper],
The World Bank Economic Review, 2019
The Externalities of a Deforestation Control Policy in Infant Health: Evidence from Brazil (with Danyelle Branco, João Lima and Juan C. Trujillo). [HEDG Working Paper],
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2019
Work in Progress
Workplace and Worker Productivity, (with Danyelle Branco)
Sources of Variation in Healthcare Spending: The Role of Managers, (with Danyelle Branco)
Other Writings
Avoidable Environmental Disasters and Infant Health: Evidence from a Mining Dam Collapse in Brazil, (with Daniel Da Mata, Lucas Emanuel, Daniel Lopes and Breno Sampaio)
Health Economics, 2021
Attainments and Limitations of an Early Childhood Programme in Colombia, (with Juan Trujillo, and Wilman Iglesias)
Health Policy and Planning, 2014
Relationship between Professional Antenatal Care and Facility Delivery: an Assessment of Colombia (with Juan Trujillo, and Wilman Iglesias),
Health Policy and Planning, 2014
Policy Briefs
Reincidencia Criminal no Brasil (In Portuguese)
Departamento Penitenciario Nacional, 2022
Mayor Oferta de Medicos Necesariamente Mejora Salud Publica? El Caso del Programa Mas Medicos de Brasi (In Spanish)
Foco Economico, 2021
Chapter Books
O Metodo Diferenças-em-Diferenças, (with Danyelle Branco). In A Avaliação de Impacto das políticas de Saude: Uma Guia para o SUS
Ministerio de Saude, Forthcoming
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