Education

• Ph.D., Business Economics, Harvard University, 2017
• M.A., Economics, PUC-Rio, 2009
• B.A., Economics, IBMEC, 2007

About

I’m an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis, Department of Economics. I’m also a Faculty Affiliate at the NBER Political Economy Program and Development Economics Program, at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development BREAD and at the Center for Effective Global Action CEGA, an Invited Researcher for JPAL and Weiss Family Fund, and a Lemann Fellow.

My current research focus is in the field of Development Economics, in particular, its intersection with Public, Political and Organizational Economics. As a researcher, I’m interested in two topics, poor governance in governments and social mobility, both of which I study in the developing economies context. You can find here a short research statement. My research has been published in the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Public Economics and has been featured in leading Brazilian media outlets.

I earned a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University. In the past, I worked in the World Bank at Washington DC supporting countries in the Latin America and Caribbean Region and countries in the South Asia Region.

Curriculum Vitae link (Updated April 2025) Google Scholar link

Teaching

University of California, Davis
ECN 290: Development As Effective Governments
ECN 102: Analysis of Economic Data

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