Publications

• Pull Up a Chair: Municipal Council Size and Local Taxes in Brazil (with Henrique Veras)

Economía LACEA Journal, 2023, 22(1): 117–134.   

• Does Legal Change Induce Behavioral Change in Domestic Violence Against Women?  (with Kelly Senters)

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2023, 38(9–10): 6942–6960 .

• The Effect of Presidential Election Outcomes on Alcohol Drinking (with Isabel Musse)

Economics & Politics, 2023, 35(1): 146-162.

• The Impact of Winter Olympic Participation on NHL Attendance (with Peter von Allmen and Garrett Munck)

Economics of Governance, 2022, 23(3): 253-270.

• The Electoral Buzz: Rational Prospective Voting and the Politics of the Zika Epidemic in Brazil (with Kelly Senters)

Latin American Research Review, 2021, 56(3): 575–591.

• The impact of political representation on the provision of public goods and services (with Diloá Athias)

Fiscal Studies, 2021, 42(2): 367-381.

• Fewer guns, less crime: Evidence from Brazil

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Economic Policy, 2021, 36, issue 106, 287-323.

• Cold Bacon: Co-Partisan Politics in Brazil (with Diogo Baerlocher)

Public Choice , 2021, 189, 161-182.

• Sporting Events, Emotional Cues, and Crime: Spatial and Temporal Evidence from Brazilian Soccer Games (with Qi Ge and Ignacio Sarmiento)

Economic Inquiry, 2021, 59(1): 375-395 .

• Free or Fair Elections? The Introduction to Electronic Voting in Brazil

Economía LACEA Journal, 2020, 21(1): 73-99.

• Electronic voting and Public Spending: The impact of de facto enfranchisement on federal budget amendments in Brazil (with Diloá Athias and Mauricio Bugarin)

Journal of Applied Economics, 2020, 23(1): 299-315.

• Political Determinants of Investment in Water and Sanitation: Evidence from Brazilian Elections  (with Evan Kresch)

Economics Letters, 2020, 189 (April 2020) .

• Does Enfranchisement Affect Fiscal Policy? Theory and Empirical Evidence on Brazil (with Diloá Athias and Mauricio Bugarin)

Economics of Governance, 2019, 20(4): 389-412. 

• Winners and Losers of the Ballot: Electronic versus Traditional Paper Voting Systems in Brazil  (with Kelly Senters)

Latin American Politics and Society,  2018, 60(2): 41-60. 

Invited Publications

• The Buzz on Babies: The fertility depressing effect of the Zika virus in Brazil (with Kelly Senters)

Brazilian Journal of Policy and Development,  2019, 1(1): 45-60. 

Book Chapter (in Portuguese)

• Efeito da urna eletrônica sobre o volume e a composição do gasto público municipal. Chapter in: Economia e sustentabilidade: princípios fundamentais. Editora Conhecimento Livre, 2020, 183-227. (with Diloá Athias and Mauricio Bugarin)

Selected Work in Progress

• Enfranchisement of the Low Skilled and Public Employment (with Spyridon Lagaras and Margarita Tsoutsoura)

• Do Voters Respond to Neighborhood Crime? (with Qi Ge and Thomas Fujiwara)

• Introduction to Electronic Voting: A comparative Study between Brazil and India (with Monica Das and Prachee Arora)

• Natural disasters support authoritarian populism: Evidence from the Brazilian shrimp vote (with Diogo Baerlocher, Renata Caldas and Francisco Cavalcanti)

• Does Exposure to Refugees Impact Political Support for Right-Wing Parties? Empirical Evidence from Venezuelan Refugees in Brazil  (with Smriti Tiwari)

• Thieves Around the Stadium: Comparing the Effects of Football and Soccer on Crime (with Jeremy Budner)