Research

Publications

1. Electoral Campaign Attacks: Theory and Evidence (with Marcos Nakaguma). American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Forthcoming

2. Too Much of a Good Thing: Accelerated Growth and Crime (with Rodrigo R. Soares).  Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 175, 2025

Featured in: Estadão (June 2025)

3. A Model of Endogenous Education Quality: the Role of Teachers (with Mauro Rodrigues). Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 29, 2025

4. The Role of Public Security Reforms on Violent Crime Dynamics (with Mateus Maciel). Economics Letters, Vol. 241, 2024

5. Female Judges and In-Group Bias in Labor Courts (with Jaqueline Oliveira, Raphael Corbi, and Rafael Ferreira). Economics Bulletin, Vol. 41(No. 3), 2021

6. 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

1. 1. 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)

1. 2. No Country for Exposed Firms: Violent Crime and Business Performance Across Sectors

In progress

1. Strangers in a Booming Land: Immigration, Growth, and Crime in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Brazil  (with Pedro Américo)

2. No Cash, No Crime? Instant Payment Systems and Criminal Behavior (with Mateus Maciel)

3. When Fear Goes Viral: The Role of Social Media in Perceived Insecurity (with Bruno Velha). In portuguese