Working Papers

• The Industrialization Path: Railroads, Technology Adoption, and Structural Transformation in Brazil [updated: march/2026]

• From Market Integration to Economic Growth: Railways and Historical Development in Brazil [updated: september/2025]

[Prepared for the book “Roots of Underdevelopment: A New Economic and Political History of Latin America and the Caribbean - volume 2”, edited by Felipe Valencia Caicedo.]

Publications

• Subsidizing Access to Prescription Drugs and Health Outcomes: The Case of Diabetes (with Rudi Rocha)  

     Journal of Health Economics, v. 72, July 2020. [WP Version]

• Renda Interna Bruta Real, Ganhos de Comércio e Termos de Troca no Brasil de 1948 a 2016 (with Estêvão Bastos)

Pesquisa e Planejamento Econômico, v. 48, August 2018, p. 39-56. 

Books, Invited Papers and Reports

• Efeitos do Copagamento de Medicamentos sobre Saúde no Brasil: Evidências do Programa Aqui Tem Farmácia Popular.  Rio de Janeiro: BNDES, September 2017. 1. ed., v. 1. 124p . 

• Novos Cálculos da Taxa Efetiva Real de Câmbio para o Brasil (with Marcelo Nonnenberg, Alejandro Padrón and Beatriz  Araujo). Nota Técnica, IPEA, 2015.

Working in Progress

• Agrarian Elites, Education, and Structural Transformation (with Claudio Ferraz)

• Railroads, Market Integration, and Crop Specialization in Early 20th-Century Brazil

• Strangers in a Booming Land: Immigration, Growth, and Crime in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Brazil  (with Danilo Souza)