Research

Working papers 

Racial Identity and Discretion in Healthcare: Evidence from Childbirth,  with Bladimir Carrillo, Luiz Fontes, Sebastian Bauhoff, Suzanne Duryea, Luiz Fontes, Leticia Nunes, Rafael Parfitt, and Laisa Rachter

Review of Economics and Statistics, Revise and Resubmit  

Organizations and the Production Side of Gender Inequality: Evidence from Surgeons, with Bladimir Carrillo, Gustavo Cordeiro, and Laisa Rachter

Journal of Political Economy, Reject and Resubmit  

Allocating Talent in Organizations: Evidence from Quasi-Random Exits of Physicians, with Bladimir Carrillo, Luiz Fontes, and Leticia Nunes

Publications

Expertise Overlap and Team Productivity: Evidence from the Hospital Industry, with Bladimir Carrillo, Di Fang and Wilman Iglesias 

Journal of Political Economy Micro, forthcoming

Routine-Biased Technological Change and Endogeneous Skill Investments, with Bladimir Carrillo and Wilman Iglesias

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2025

Social Fund and Infant Mortality: Evidence from an Anti-Poverty Policy in Northeast Brazil, with Alvaro Roberio, 2024 

Health Economics

Trade and Health:  Evidence on Trade Reform, Public Health Policy, and Infant Mortality in Brazil, with Bladimir Carrillo and Carlos Charris

Journal of Development Economics, 2024

Weather Shocks and Labor Allocation: Evidence from Rural Brazil, with Jose Feres, 2020

American Journal of Agricultural Economics 

The Externalities of a Deforestation Control Policy in Infant Health: Evidence from Brazil, with Bladimir Carrillo, João Lima and Juan C. Trujillo, 2019

 Economic Development and Cultural Change