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Welcome! I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Liverpool. Before that, I was a Junior Labour Market Economist at the OECD and I got my PhD at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy. Before the PhD, I worked at international organisations such as the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, as well as in the public and private sector of my home country. This site contains my CV, as well as information about my publications, current research projects, and teaching experience.

The motivation behind my work is my interest in inequality, which runs through my research in labour markets, student debt, health and household finances, subjective well-being, and illicit financial flows, covering both the US and Portugal.

• Labour markets: My work on franchising documents stylised facts on vertical restraints (Research in Labor Economics) and estimates the causal effect of no-poach clauses on worker wages (Review of Economics and Statistics). Working papers examine changes in the balance of power and the interplay between minimum wages and vertical restraints in the franchising sector. Ongoing projects examine the effects of non-competes on worker outcomes and of voluntary firm-level minimum wages.

• Student debt: I study the long-term effects of the Great Recession on student debt outcomes (Labour Economics) and the effects of debt cancellation on borrowers’ financial health (working paper). Ongoing projects examine the intergenerational impact of the Great Recession on student debt and trends in the elasticity of student debt to parental wealth.

• Health and household finances: I have a working paper on the causal effects of hospital mergers on medical debt and the underlying mechanisms, and an ongoing project on the maternal and child health outcomes of Catholic hospital mergers.

• Dissertation: Using Portuguese data, I examined top wage concentration and mobility, immigrant wage discrimination, and labour market concentration. An ongoing project estimates the effect of Portugal’s Residency-by-Investment programme on tax evasion.

• Subjective well-being: Earlier research examined how race and income gaps map into premature mortality trends in the US (Journal of Population Economics), what drives different dimensions of well-being and how well-being can inform policy (Science), the causal well-being effects of recent presidential elections (Economica), and the poor well-being and health of prime-age men who leave the labour force (Social Science & Medicine).