Health and Demographic Economics

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. 

American Delusion: Life Expectancy and Welfare in the US from an International Perspective (with Rudi Rocha and Michel Szklo). Journal of Human Capital, 16(1), Spring 2022, 73-132.

The Welfare Cost of Homicides in Brazil: Accounting for Heterogeneity in the Willingness to Pay for Mortality Reductions (with Daniel Cerqueira). Health Economics, 25(3), March 2016, 259-276. 

Gary Becker’s Contributions in Health Economics. Journal of Demographic Economics, 81(1), March 2015, 51-57.

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

Determinants of Health Status in the Developing World. In: Anthony J. Culyer (editor). Encyclopedia of Health Economics, Elsevier, 2014, 435-442.

Demographic Transition. In: Helmut K. Anheier and Mark Juergensmeyer (editors). Encyclopedia of Global Studies, vol. 1, Sage Publications, 2012, 380-382.

Mortality. In: Helmut K. Anheier and Mark Juergensmeyer (editors). Encyclopedia of Global Studies, vol. 3, Sage Publications, 2012, 1189-1191.

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.

Life Expectancy and Welfare in Latin America and the Caribbean. Health Economics, 18(S1), April 2009, 37-54.

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.

Health and the Evolution of Welfare across Brazilian Municipalities. Journal of Development Economics, 84(2), November 2007, 590–608.

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

Fertility in “Post-Demographic Transition” Countries. 2050: A Changing Europe – Pharmaceuticals Policy and Law, 9(1-2), 2007, 15-27.

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

The Effect of Longevity on Schooling and Fertility: Evidence from the Brazilian Demographic and Health Survey. Journal of Population Economics, 19(1), February 2006, 71-97.

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.

The Economic Cost of AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Reassessment (with Tomas J. Philipson). In: Guillem López­Casasnovas, Berta Rivera, and Luis Currais (editors). Health and Economic Growth: Findings and Policy Implications, MIT Press, 2005, 313-336.

World Inequality and the Rise in Longevity (with Tomas J. Philipson). In: Boris Pleskovic and Nicholas Stern (editors). Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2001/2002, World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2002, 245-259.