I am a Full Professor of Economics at the University of São Paulo, where I study how political institutions, labor markets, and religious organizations shape economic outcomes. My research has been featured in The Economist, Folha de São Paulo, and VoxEU, and awarded the Haralambos Simeonidis prize for best paper in Economics by a Brazilian scholar. I received my Ph.D. from the London Business School in 2014.
Finance and development · Labor economics · Economics of culture and religion · Political economy
Publications
Featured in VoxEU.org, May/2019 · 2020 Haralambos Simeonidis prize for best paper in Economics by a Brazilian scholar
Church Tax Exemption and Structure of Religious Markets: a Dynamic Structural Analysis
American Economic Journal: MicroeconomicsFeatured in AEA Research Highlights · The Economist · Nexo Jornal · O Estado de São Paulo · Jornal USP
Best paper at the 43rd Meeting of the Brazilian Econometric Society
Income Shocks and Mortality of Low-Wage Workers: Evidence from Wage Allowances in Brazil
Journal of Development EconomicsInternal Migration and Labor Market Adjustments in the Presence of Nonwage Compensation
Journal of Development EconomicsMedia Manipulation in Young Democracies: Evidence From the 1989 Brazilian Presidential Election
Comparative Political StudiesNatural Disasters and Preferences for the Environment: Evidence from the Impressionable Years
Economics LettersFemale Judges and In-Group Bias in Labor Courts
Economics BulletinWorking Papers
The Industrial Organization of Belief: Market Size, Church Expansion, and Religious Change
SubmittedPublic Campaign Finance as an Incumbency Subsidy: A Welfare Analysis of Brazil’s 2017 Reform
SubmittedLabor Courts, Job Search and Employment: Evidence from a Labor Reform in Brazil
Featured in CNN Brasil · Valor Econômico · Crusoé
Payroll Tax, Employment and Labor Market Concentration
Labour Economics — Revise & ResubmitIn Progress
The Gospel According to Media: Religious Radio and the Rise of Pentecostalism in Brazil
Size of Legislature, Public Spending and Political Budget Cycle
Supply-side Secularization: Evidence from Religious Entrepreneurs in Brazil
The Ecumenical Multiplier: A Structural Account of Mergers and Schisms in American Protestantism
Other Publications
The Components of Economic Freedom, Income and Growth: an Empirical Analysis
Estudos EconômicosThe Empirical Determinants of Happiness in Brazil
Revista de Economia PolíticaOp-Eds & Media
Teaching