When Identity Becomes Visible: Costs, Benefits, and Social Preference (Joint with O. Ogunnote and J.Solís Arce) (04/2025)
Long-term Effects of a Commodity Boom in the Amazon (Joint with H. Laudares, D. Murillo, H. Paredes, and F. Valencia) (04/2025)
Grants awarded by the Inter-American Development Bank’s Gender and Diversity Lab and by the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF)
Technological Change and Labor Coercion: Evidence From Local Labor Markets (Joint with Y. Barreto and Gil do Vigor) (05/2025)
Scheduled: LACEA Annual Meeting, 2025
Recession and Equality: The Lasting Consequences of a Liquidity Freeze (Joint with Y. Barreto and L. Warwar) (04/2025) [Draft Soon]
Presented at the LACEA Annual Meeting, 2023; 45º SBE, 2023; NEUDC, 2024; WEFIDEV 2024
Economic Production and Supernatural Beliefs (joint with B. Carrillo and B. Sampaio) (11/2023) (New Version Soon) An earlier version circulated under “Social Organization and the Roots of Supernatural Beliefs,”
IZA Discussion Paper: No 14938
Presented at the LACEA Annual Meeting, 2021; 43º SBE; 2021; ASREC Conference,2022; CNEH, 2022; Ridge Historical Development Workshop, 2022; LEAP, 2022; Oxford Grad. Seminar in Economic and Social History, 2022; ASREC Europe Conference, 2022; LAMES Annual Meeting, 2022; 44º SBE, 2022; WGAPE-CEGA, 2023
Minimum Wages and the Human Capital of the Next Generation (joint with B. Carrillo, W. Iglesias, and B. Sampaio) (12/2024) (New Version)
Runner up for the 2021 SBE Best Paper in Applied Microeconomics.
Presented at the LAMES Annual Meeting, 2021; 43º SBE, 2021; ASSA - AEA Annual Meeting, 2022
Illegal Markets and Contemporary Slavery: Evidence from the Mahogany Trade in the Amazon (Joint with Y. Barreto, R. Tigre, and D. Castro) (08/2023)
[Gated]
Press Coverage: VoxDev
Journal of Development Economics - Vol. 166, Jan. (2024): nº103177
Presented at the 44º SBE, 2022
The Long-Run Economic Consequences of Iodine Supplementation. (joint with B. Carrillo and B. Sampaio) (updated 03/21)
IZA Discussion Paper: No 14203 ; [Gated]
Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 79, Sep. (2021): nº10249, (Lead article)
Presented at the REAP 2019; 41º SBE, 2019; RIDGE Impact Evaluation Network, 2020.
Do extended school day programs affect performance in college admission tests? (joint with G. Bayma, C. Melo, L. Sampaio and M. Mendonça) (updated 11/20)
[Gated]
Press Coverage: Exame
Brazilian Review of Econometrics, Vol. 40, No. 2 (2020): 232-266
Presented at the 41º SBE, 2019.
Evaluation and Monitoring of Public Policies of the Ministry of Citizenship. Gappe Report; Sponsor: Ministry of Citizenship, Brazil (2020).