Breno Sampaio

Vitae (Aug 2023)

Associate Professor of Economics

Department of Economics, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)

Education

Ph.D. in Economics: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 2007 - 2011.

B.S. in Civil Engineering: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) - Brazil, 2002 - 2006.

Academic Positions

Invited Researcher, J-PAL.

Research Fellow, Institute of Labor Economics, IZA. 

Fellow, CLEAN Unit on the Economic Analysis of Crime, Baffi-Carefin Centre, Bocconi University

Professional Activities

Consultant, The World Bank, Washington, USA (March 2023 - present).

Consultant, The Human Rights, Big Data, and Technology Project (with Sonia Bhalotra), University of Essex, UK (July 2019 - Dec 2022).

Consultant, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, USA (March 2015 - July 2021).

Consultant, Superintêndencia do Desenvolvimento do Nordeste (SUDENE), Ministério do Desenvolvimento Regional, Brasília, Brazil (Jan 2021 - present). 

Consultant, Departamento Penitenciário Nacional (DEPEN), Ministério da Justiça e Segurança Pública, Brasília, Brazil (Jan 2021 - present).

Consultant, Ministério da Cidadania, Brasília, Brazil (Aug 2019 - Dec 2020, Dec 2021 - present).

Consultant, Ministério da Cultura (MinC), Brasília, Brazil (Nov 2016 - Dec 2018).

Honors, Awards and Fellowships

2023 IMDS/SBE Applied Microeconomics Prize: Awarded by the Brazilian Econometric Society (SBE) and the Social Mobility Institute (IMDS) for the Best Paper Presented in the Meeting of the Brazilian Econometric Society (“The Kids Aren’t Alright: Job Loss and Children’s Outcomes within and beyond Schools”), Dec 2023.

International Growth Centre (IGC/LSE) Research Grant: Winner of the IGC Research Grant, awarded for the project ``Climate shocks and the effectiveness of scalable, low-cost climate adaption policies,'' (joint with Diogo G. C. Britto), March 2023.

2022 Haralambos Simeonidis Prize: Awarded by the Brazilian Economics Association (ANPEC) for Best Published Paper by a Brazilian Economist (``The Effect of Job Loss and Unemployment Insurance on Crime in Brazil''), Dec 2022.

2022 Mario Henrique Simonsen Memorial Lecture: Awarded by the Econometric Society to two under-40 Latin American economists who are doing well in terms of publication and impact. Lima, Peru, Nov 2022.

SUR Dialogues Invited Speaker: Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, Germany, Nov 2022.

STEG/CEPR Small Research Grant, 2021 (joint with Diogo G. C. Britto, Fernando Gomes Mattar, Dimitri Szerman and Gabriel Ulyssea).

2021 SBE Best Paper in Applied Microeconomics (Runner up)}: Awarded for Best Article Presented in the Meeting of the Brazilian Econometric Society, Dec 2021.

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Grant, 2019 (joint with Diogo G. C. Britto and Paolo Pinotti).

Prêmio CAPES de Tese: National Award for Best Ph.D. Dissertation in Economics in the year of 2018 (Ph.D. student: Giuseppe Trevisan).  Sept 2019.

EIEF Grant, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance, 2019 (joint with Diogo G. C. Britto and Robson Tigre).

Modigliani Research Grant, UniCredit & Universities Foundation, 2019 (joint with Diogo G. C. Britto and Robson Tigre).

2018 SBE Best Paper in Applied Microeconomics (Runner up): Awarded for Best Article Presented in the Meeting of the Brazilian Econometric Society, Dec 2018.

Referee 

Journal of Political Economy, Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA), Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Human Capital, National Science Foundation (NSF), Economic Inquiry, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Empirical Economics, IZA Journal of Labor Economics, Brazilian Review of Econometrics, Development Policy Review, Economics Bulletin, Journal of Air Transport Management, Journal of the Operational Research Society (JORS), Land Use Policy, Regional Studies, Research in Transportation Economics, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Transport Policy, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics, Transportation Review.