Publications

• The role of public security reforms on violent crime dynamics (with Danilo Souza). Economics Letters, Vol. 241, 2024 [MPRA working paper].

Working Papers

• Rushing to the altar? Same-sex marriages when rights feel at risk  (with Sara Parente and David Zuchowski) 

Revised & Resubmitted: Journal of Population Economics

Presentations: RSIT Brown Bag Seminar.

• Digital highways to development: Mobile internet and tax revenues  (with David Zuchowski)  

Under review

Presentations: RSIT Brown Bag Seminar, PIMES/UFPE, PPGCE/Uerj, AMIE 4th Applied Microeconomics workshop, University of Cagliari, Workshop on the Economics of Taxation, ALdE Applied Economics Meeting, Lisbon Urban and Public Economics Workshop, and 19th RGS Doctoral Conference. 

• Refugee inflow and reported safety concerns  (with David Zuchowski)

Submitted

Presentations: Wartime migration and integration: Ukrainian stayers, IDPs and refugees.

• Under pressure? Forced migration and public health  (with David Zuchowski and Renan Marques)

• The allocation of profits within MNCs: The role of IP Boxes  (with Peter Egger, Stefan Goldbach, Valeria Merlo, and Georg Wamser)

Presentations: RSIT Brown Bag Seminar and Bundesbank

(Selected) Work in Progress

• The consequences of taxing the Sun: Evidence from Brazil  (with Géremi Dranka and Fabian Scheifele) 

• Rumors and transactions: Misinformation, perceived taxation, and payment behavior in Brazil  (with Jean Oliveira) 

• Financial constraints and insurer behavior: Evidence from the COVID-19 shock  (with Jean Oliveira)

• Digitalization and deforestation  (with Fernanda Almeida and David Zuchowski)

• Mobile internet and family dynamics (with Charlotte Eisvogel and David Zuchowski)

• No cash, no crime? Instant payment systems and criminal behavior  (with Danilo Souza)

• Immigration and crime (with David Zuchowski) - Prepared for the Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (Editor Klaus F. Zimmermann)