Research
Publications
The Role of Public Security Reforms on Violent Crime Dynamics (with Mateus Maciel). Economics Letters, Vol. 241, 2024
A Model of Endogenous Education Quality: the Role of Teachers (with Mauro Rodrigues). Macroeconomic Dynamics
Female Judges and In-Group Bias in Labor Courts (with Jaqueline Oliveira, Raphael Corbi, and Rafael Ferreira). Economics Bulletin, Vol. 41(No. 3), 2021
Education Quality and the Empirics of Economic Growth: reconciling Mankiw-Romer-Weil estimates with microeconometric evidence (with Mauro Rodrigues). Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 28 (No. 6), 2021
Working papers
Electoral Campaign Attacks: Theory and Evidence (with Marcos Nakaguma). Revise and Resubmit at the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
Presentations: SBE Meeting 2017 (Natal-BR), ES-NASM 2018 (Davis-US), SBE Meeting 2019 (Sao Paulo-BR), ES-World Congress 2020 (Bocconi-IT), ESEM 2020 (Rotterdam-NL), IV LAPolMeth 2020 (Sao Paulo-BR), 7th Conference on "Contests: Theory and Evidence" 2021 (Berlin-DE), LACEA/LAMES Congress 2021 (Bogotá-CO), NEUDC 2021 (Boston-US), SBE Seminar in Applied Economics (virtual), ASSA 2023 (New Orleans-US).
Too Much of a Good Thing: Accelerated Growth and Crime (with Rodrigo R. Soares). Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Development Economics
Presentations: 1st Insper Workshop on Recent Developments in the Economics of Crime in Brazil (Sao Paulo-BR), 11th AL CAPONE Annual Meeting (Reggio di Calabria-IT), LACEA LAMES Annual Meeting 2022 (Lima-PE), SBE Meeting 2022 (Fortaleza-BR)
Labor Courts, Job Search, and Employment: Evidence from a Labor Reform in Brazil (with Raphael Corbi, Rafael Ferreira, and Renata Narita).
Featured in: Valor Econômico, CNN Brazil, BBC Brazil (May 2022)