Working Papers
Can Universalization of Health Work? Evidence from Health Systems Restructuring and Expansion in Brazil (with Sonia Bhalotra and Rodrigo R. Soares). IZA Discussion Paper 12111 | ESRC Award ES/N000048/1. [paper]
Productive Effects of Dengue in Brazil (with Aline Menezes, Gabriel Facchini and Sonia Bhalotra). ISER Working Paper 2019-04 | British Academy Award GF160011. [paper]
Urgent Care Centers, Hospital Performance and Population Health (with Sonia Bhalotra and Leticia Nunes) | British Academy Award AF160082. IZA DP 13992. [paper]
Hiring Mental Health Professionals: Evidence from a Large-Scale Primary Care Policy in Brazil (with Matías Mrejen). [paper]
Machine Learning for Staggered Difference-in-Differences and Dynamic Treatment Effect Heterogeneity (with Julia Hatamyar, Noemi Kreif and Martin Huber). [paper]
Patient and Medical Choice Across Public and Private Health Providers: The Case of Birth Timing Manipulation in Brazil (with Paula Spinola). [paper]
Political Turnover and Fatal Government Transitions (with Helena Arruda). [paper soon available]
What Happens to Population Health When the Doctors Leave? Evidence from the Exit of Cuban Doctors in Brazil (with Stefan Sliwa Ruiz, Malte Becker and Tom Hone). [paper]
Does Increasing Public Spending in Health Improve Health? Lessons from a Constitutional Reform in Brazil (with Michel Szklo and Damian Clarke). [paper]
Current Projects
The Long-Run Development of Diverse Towns (with Bruno Vigna and Luigi Minale).
The Hidden Costs of Overcrowding Maternity Wards: Health and Education Consequences for Children (with Rafael Parfitt and Bruno Ferman).
Using Geocoded Big Data to Identify Causal Links Between Infectious Diseases and Child Developmental Outcomes (with Sonia Bhalotra, Marcela Camargo and Thiago Tachibana) | Grand Challenges Explorations Award, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and CNPq.
Evaluating the Effects of the Health at School Program on Education and Health (Avaliação do PSE) (with Flávio Riva and Lia Kale) | FGV Rede-PPA Award.
The Effects of Contracting-Out under Pay for Performance: Evidence from the Brazilian OSS Model (with Maíra Coube and Antonio Leon).
Evaluating the Effects of Rede Cegonha (with Valdemar P Neto) | FGV Rede-PPA Award.
Electoral Impacts of Primary Healthcare Expansion: Evidence from Rio de Janeiro (with Marcela Camargo).