Research

Comments on the WPs and proposal for collaboration in related projects are welcome

• "Voting for Deforestation? Exploring the Effect of Political Alignment on Environmental Outcomes", with D. Araujo, Y. Barreto, and M. Fadic. Work in Progress

• "The Costs of Access to Justice: Evidence from the Universe of Labor Court Cases in Brazil", with D. Britto, F. Gerard, J. Naritomi & B. Sampaio, Work in Progress  (Winner of the 9th Edition of the Modigliani Research Grant and EIEF Grant ).

• "Daylight Saving Lives: the effect of daylight saving time on homicides'', with W. Toro & B. Sampaio. 2nd R&R Journal of Law and Economics (Presented at the 2021 RIDGE Workshop on Economics of Crime). [Draft]

• "Illegal Markets and Contemporary Slavery: Evidence from the Mahogany Trade in the Amazon", with D. Araujo, Y. Barreto, & Danny Castro. Journal of Development Economics [Draft] [Pub.].

• "Are Educated Candidates Less Corrupt Bureaucrats? Evidence from Randomized Audits in Brazil''. with C. Melo. Economic Development and Cultural Change (Forthcoming). [Draft] [Pub.]

• "Corruption and Economic Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean", with R. de Andrade Lima & L. Dutra. Review of Development Economics, 26(2), p. 756-773, 2022. [Pub.] 

• "The impact of commuting time on youth's school performance", with B. Sampaio & T. Menezes. Journal of Regional Science, 57(1), p. 28-47, 2017. [Pub.] [Draft]

• "Daylight Saving Time and Incidence of Myocardial Infarction: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design'', with W. Toro & B. Sampaio. Economics Letters, 136, p. 1-4, 2015. [Pub.] [Draft]

• "Commute duration and health: Empirical evidence from Brazil'', with R. Oliveira, K. Moura, J. Viana & B. Sampaio. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 80, p. 62-75, 2015. [Pub.] [Draft]

• "Cell-Phones, Distracted Driving, Bans and Fatalities", with L. Rocco & B. Sampaio. In Z. Yan (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior, pp. 1319-1329. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2015. [Pub.]

• "Avaliação e Monitoramento de Políticas Públicas no Âmbito do Ministério da Cidadania", Grupo de Avaliação de Políticas Públicas e Econômicas' Report  to the Ministry of Citizenship (2019) [Report].

• "Preventing forced labor: causal evidence from both government and non-governmental interventions in Brazil", with Y. Barreto, G. Bayma & Danny Castro. Work in Progress (Winner of the 2021 International Labour Organization "From Research to Action" grant). [Presentation] [Report]

*Items under "[Draft]" are pre-print versions of those under "[Pub.]". If you have access to the published version, please refer to it to make sure you are reading the latest version.