Published Research

• Socially Optimal Crime and Punishment (with Eduardo Ferraz). Journal of the European Economic Association, forthcoming.

• Landing on Water: Air Interdiction, Drug-Trafficking Displacement, and Violence in the Brazilian Amazon (with Leila Pereira and Rafael Pucci). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, forthcoming.

• Labor Unions and the Electoral Consequences of Trade Liberalization (with Pedro Ogeda and Emanuel Ornelas). Journal of the European Economic Association, 23(1), February 2025, 236-280.

• Down the River: Glyphosate Use in Agriculture and Birth Outcomes of Surrounding Populations (with Mateus Dias and Rudi Rocha). Review of Economic Studies, 90(6), November 2023, 2943-2981. 

• Workforce Composition, Productivity, and Labor Regulations in a Compensating Differentials Theory of Informality (with Daniel Haanwinckel). Review of Economic Studies, 88(6), November 2021, 2970–3010.

• Economic Shocks and Crime: Evidence from the Brazilian Trade Liberalization (with Rafael Dix-Carneiro and Gabriel Ulyssea). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10(4), October 2018, 158-195.

• Human Capital Persistence and Development (with Rudi Rocha and Claudio Ferraz). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 9(4), October 2017, 105-136.

• The Use of Violence in Illegal Markets: Evidence from Mahogany Trade in the Brazilian Amazon (with Ariaster B. Chimeli). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 9(4), October 2017, 30-57.

• The Demographic Transition and the Sexual Division of Labor (with Bruno Falcão). Journal of Political Economy, 116(6), December 2008, 1058-1104.

• Mortality Reductions, Educational Attainment, and Fertility Choice. American Economic Review, 95(3), June 2005, 580-601.

• The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality (with Gary S. Becker and Tomas J. Philipson). American Economic Review, 95(1), March2005, 277-291.

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