Working Papers

• Political Turnover and Fatal Government Transitions. (with Rudi Rocha) [Master's Thesis]
  I presented this paper at: XVII RIDGE forum Health Economics network [Montevideo, Uruguay] 05/2023; LACEA LAMES Annual Meeting [Bogotá, Colômbia] 11/2023; 4th Meeting of the Society of Family and Gender Economics [São Paulo, Brazil]. 08/2023; 45° Meeting of the Brazilian Econometric Society (SBE) [Rio de Janeiro, Brazil] 12/2023;
  Media Coverage: Folha de São Paulo

• Protests as Accountability Mechanism: Theory and Empirical Evidence of Brazil Mass Protests. (with Amanda de Albuquerque, Laura Karpuska, and  Claudio Ferraz )
  I presented this paper at: 43° Meeting of the Brazilian Econometric Society [online] December/2021;

• The Effects of Better Houses on Infant Health (with Laísa Rachter and Cecilia Machado).
  I presented this paper at: 5th Meeting of the Society of Family and Gender Economics [São Paulo, Brazil] 09/2024; 46° Meeting of the Brazilian Econometric Society (SBE) [Natal, Brazil] 12/2024;

•  Macroeconomic Fluctuations and the Prioritization of Healthcare Finances by Local Governments: Longitudinal Evidence from 5,461 Brazilian Municipalities (with Karen Codazzi, Rudi Rocha, Thomas Hone, and Marc Suhrcke). 

• What are the determinants of primary care performance in Brazil? (with Julia Hatamyar, Noemi Kreif, Thomas Hone, and Rudi Rocha)

• Impacts of an unconditional cash transfer program for poor elderly on healthcare access and expenditures (with Judite Gonçalves and Leonardo Rosa)

• Effects of extending primary healthcare hours on health facilities organization and healthcare usage (with Leonardo Rosa, Vinícius Peçanha, Lucas Falcão, and Rudi Rocha)

• Equity and health system performance consequences of primary healthcare capitation and based-performance payments reform: a nationwide cross-sectional analysis of 5570 municipalities in Brazil (with Leonardo Rosa, Matías Mrejen, Victor Nobre, Manuel Faria, Rudi Rocha, and Thomas Hone)

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• The Effects of Changes in Campaign Financing Rules on Female Candidacies Funding in the 2018 Elections [Undergraduate's thesis]