Research
Publications
Too Much of a Good Thing: Accelerated Growth and Crime (with Rodrigo R. Soares). Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 175, 2025
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).
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)
In progress
Firm Survival, Sectoral Composition, and Violence in Brazil. Draft coming soon