Research

Papers Published or Forthcoming

Labor Market Turnover and Inequality in Latin America (with Renata Narita), Oxford Open Economics, Volume 4, Supplement_1, 2025,  i349–i375

The Effect of Age at School Entry on Education and Labor Market Outcomes: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis (with Renato Herdeiro and Alison Oliveira), Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol. 73 (2), 2025.

The Effects of Birth Timing Manipulation around Carnival on Birth Indicators  in Brazil (with Carolina Melo), Health Economics, 33 (9), 2024.

Technical Change in Agriculture and Homicides: The Case of Genetically-Modified Soy Seeds in Brazil (with Luca Moreno-Louzada),  Economics Letters, Volume 234, 2024.

The Impacts of COVID-19 hospitalizations on Non-Covid-19 deaths and hospitalizations: a panel data analysis using Brazilian municipalities (with Bruno Komatsu and Luana Villares), PLoS ONE 18(12), 2023: e0295572.

Sanitation conditions and education outcomes in Brazilian municipalities (with Juliana Moreira, Carlos Azzoni), Sustainable Development, forthcoming.

The relationship between staying at home during the pandemic and the number of conceptions: a national panel data analysis (with Luca Moreno-Louzada), PLOS ONE 18(8), 2023: e0289604 

Are newcomers financially responsible? Evidence from close elections in Brazilian Municipalities  (with Henrique Hott), Local Government Studies,  50(1), 48–86, 2024.

Length of Candidate Lists and Political Careers: Quasi-experimental Evidence From Brazil (with Henrique Hott), Party Politics, 30(2), 260-276, 2024.  

The Effects of a National Policy to Reduce Elective C-sections in Brazil (with Carolina Melo), Health Economics, vol 32, n. 2, 2023.

Racial Social Norms among Brazilian Students: Academic Performance, Popularity and Racial Identification (with Alysson Portela and Charles Kirschbaum),  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 119, no. 27 , 2022.

Estimating the Causal Effects of Private Health Insurance in Brazil: Evidence from a Regression Kink Design” (with Ricardo Politi), Social Science and Medicine, 264, 2020.

Do Changes in Terms of Trade Impact Election Outcomes? (with Luis Freitas and Bruno Komatsu), Economics Letters, 193, 2020.

Brazilian Unified Health System - The First 30 Years and Prospects for the Future  (with Castro, Massuda, Almeida, Andrade, Noronha, Macinko, Hone, Tasca, Giovanella, Malik, Werneck, Fachini and Atun), The Lancet,   v.394, pp. 345-356,  2019.

Why Brazil Fell Behind in College Education (with Chiara Binelli) , Economics of Education Review, v. 72, pp. 80-106, 2019.

The Impacts of Teacher Working Conditions and Human Capital on Student Achievement: Evidence from Brazilian Longitudinal Data (with Larissa Marioni and Ricardo Freguglia), Applied Economics, v. 52, pp. 568-582. 2020. 

Charter Schools, Equity and Efficiency in Public Education (with Reynaldo Fernandes), Education Economics, 28, 2020.

ICT and Productivity  in Developing Countries: New Firm-level Evidence from Brazil and India”, The Review of Economics and Statistics, v. 93, p. 528-541. (with Commander, S., Harrison, R.)

Opportunistic and partisan election cycles in Brazil: new evidence at the municipal level” Public Choice, v. 148, p. 233-247 (with Sergio Sakurai)

The Structure of Wage Compensation in Brazil, with a Comparison to the United States and France, Review of Economics and Statistics, 90, 2, 324-46. (with Marc Muendler).

Fiscal Policy and Reelection in Brazilian Municipalities”, Public Choice, 137, 301-14. (with Sergio Sakurai)

Do Teachers’ Wages Matter for Proficiency? Evidence from a Funding Reform in Brazil, Economics of Education Review, 26, 660-672. (with Elaine Pazello).

 Trade Liberalization and the Evolution of Skill Earnings Differentials in Brazil”, Journal of International Economics, vol. 68, pp. 345-67 (with Gonzaga, G. and Terra, C).

Is the Consumer Sector Competitive in the UK? A Test Using Household-Level Demand Elasticities and Firm-Level Price Equations, Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, vol.23, 3, pp. 295-304.

The Determinants of R&D: The Role of Unions, European Economic Review, vol. 42, no. 3-5. (with  Ulph, D. and Van Reenen, J. ). 

R&D and Union Bargaining: Evidence from British Firms and Establishments, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol. 52, no.1. (with, Ulph, D. and Van Reenen, J.)

Unions and Profitability over the 80s: Some Evidence on Union- Firm Bargaining in the UK , The Economic Journal, vol .107, 442.

Working Papers

The Intergenerational Payday Effect during Hyperinflation (with Ana Menezes e Helen Gonçalves)

Globalization and Political Preferences in the Developing World (with Luca Moreno-Louzada & Vitor Cavalcante)

Trade Effects on Mortality: Evidence from China Shocks in Brazil  (with Luca Moreno-Louzada & Rodrigo Megale)

Labor Market Turnover and Inequality in Latin America (with Renata Narita), LACIR working paper.

The Pains and Gains of Imports: Competition, Import Sourcing and Firm Adaptation (with Laura Alfaro, Maggie Chen, Andrea Lucchesi and Monica Schnitzer)

The Effects of Entering the Labor Market of a Developing Country during Recessions (with Paulo Costa and Bruno Komatsu).

The Impact of Automatic Progression on Educational Outcomes: An Instrumental Variable Approach (with Rodrigo Megale and Bruno Komatsu).

Commodity Booms and Illiteracy: Historical Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities (with Leandro Anazawa, Bruno Komatsu and Bruno Proença).

The Impact of a Primary Health Care Strategy on Educational Outcomes in Brazil: A Cohort Analysis (with Alan Funtowicz and Bruno Komatsu)

The Effects of the Family Health Strategy on Early Childhood Education (with Maria Clara Mancilha and Bruno Komatsu) 

 Imports and the  Survival of new Exporters (with Camila Campos e Dirk Boehe, R&R Canadian Journal of Economics)

Evaluating the Impact of the Covid Emergency Aid Transfers on Female Labor Supply in Brazil (with Sophie Levy)