Published Research

• 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.

• Competition and the Racial Wage Gap: Evidence from Brazil (with Guilherme Hirata). Journal of Development Economics, 146, September 2020, Article 102519.

• 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.

• Living on the Edge: Youth Entry, Career, and Exit in Drug-selling Gangs (with Leandro Carvalho). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 121, January 2016, 77-98.

• Water Scarcity and Birth Outcomes in the Brazilian Semiarid (with Rudi Rocha). Journal of Development Economics, 112, January 2015, 72-91.

• Institutional Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil (with Joana Naritomi and Juliano J. Assunção). Journal of Economic History, 72(2), June 2012, 393-422.

• Household Choices of Child Labor and Schooling: A Simple Model with Application to Brazil (with Diana Kruger and Matias Berthelon). Journal of Human Resources, 47(1), Winter 2012, 1-31.

• Evaluating the Impact of Community-Based Health Interventions: Evidence from Brazil’s Family Health Program (with Romero Rocha). Health Economics, 19(S1), September 2010, 126–158.

• Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children: Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare (with Javier A. Birchenall). Journal of Public Economics, 93(1-2), February 2009, 280-295.

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

• On the Determinants of Mortality Reductions in the Developing World. Population and Development Review, 33(2), June 2007, 247-287.

• The Welfare Cost of Violence across Countries. Journal of Health Economics, 25(5), September 2006, 821-846.

• 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.

• Accountability and Corruption: Political Institutions Matter (with Daniel Lederman and Norman Loayza). Economics and Politics, 17(1), March 2005, 1-35.

• Development, Crime, and Punishment: Accounting for the International Differences in Crime Rates. Journal of Development Economics, 73(1), February 2004, 155-184.

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