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Working Papers

2023

1. Loss aversion and the welfare ranking of policy interventions
   Papers, arXiv.org
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2020)

2022

2. Labor market experience and falling earnings inequality in Brazil: 1995–2012
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article Labor Market Experience and Falling Earnings Inequality in Brazil: 1995–2012, The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank (2022) View citations (4) (2022)
3. Uniform inference for value functions
   Papers, arXiv.org View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Uniform inference for value functions, Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier (2023) View citations (1) (2023)

2021

4. The changing nature of work and inequality in Brazil (2003-19): A descriptive analysis
   WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) View citations (5)

2020

5. Inclusive growth without structural transformation?: The case of Brazil
   WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

2019

6. Decline in Wage Inequality in Brazil: A Survey
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)

2018

7. An analysis of the distributive effects of public policies and their spillovers
   Working Papers, Department of Economics, University of São Paulo (FEA-USP)

2017

8. Ageing Poorly? Accounting for the Decline in Earnings Inequality in Brazil, 1995-2012
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (8)
   Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2017) View citations (7)
   IDB Publications (Working Papers), Inter-American Development Bank (2017) View citations (2)
9. Estimation and Inference for Actual and Counterfactual Growth Incidence Curves
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (3)
   Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2017) View citations (3)

2015

10. Demographic Changes and Poverty in Brazil
    Discussion Papers, Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada - IPEA View citations (4)

2014

11. A more level playing field? Explaining the decline in earnings inequality in Brazil, 1995-2012
    Global Development Institute Working Paper Series, GDI, The University of Manchester View citations (7)
12. Gender stereotypes in politics: what changes when a woman becomes the local political leader?
    Textos para discussão, FGV EESP - Escola de Economia de São Paulo, Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil)
13. Information, Market Incentives, and Student Performance
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (8)
14. Private Education Market, Information on Test Scores and Tuition Practices
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (1)
15. The Relationship between Federal Budget Amendments and Local Electoral Power
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
    See also Journal Article The relationship between federal budget amendments and local electoral power, Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier (2015) View citations (13) (2015)

2013

16. A relação entre proficiência e dispersão de idade na sala de aula: a influência do nível de qualificação do professor
    Textos para discussão, FGV EESP - Escola de Economia de São Paulo, Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil) View citations (1)
    Also in Textos para discussão, Department of Economics PUC-Rio (Brazil) (2013)
    See also Journal Article A relação entre proficiência e dispersão de idade na sala de aula: a influência do nível de qualificação do professor, Pesquisa e Planejamento Econômico - PPE, Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (2013) (2013)
17. Combinando estratégias para estimação de efeitos de tratamento
    Textos para discussão, FGV EESP - Escola de Economia de São Paulo, Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil)
18. Evidence of eligibility manipulation for conditional cash transfer programs
    Textos para discussão, FGV EESP - Escola de Economia de São Paulo, Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Evidence of eligibility manipulation for conditional cash transfer programs, Economia, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics] (2014) View citations (8) (2014)
19. O regime de ciclos de aprendizagem e a heterogeneidade de seus efeitos sobre a proficiência dos alunos
    Textos para discussão, FGV EESP - Escola de Economia de São Paulo, Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil)
20. Semiparametric Estimation and Inference Using Doubly Robust Moment Conditions
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (25)
    Also in Textos para discussão, FGV EESP - Escola de Economia de São Paulo, Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil) (2013) View citations (14)
21. Structural change, productivity growth and trade policy in Brazil
    Textos para discussão, FGV EESP - Escola de Economia de São Paulo, Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil) View citations (3)

2012

22. Electoral Impacts of Uncovering Public School Quality: Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article Electoral impacts of uncovering public school quality: Evidence from Brazilian municipalities, Economia, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics] (2017) View citations (3) (2017)
23. Occupational tasks and changes in the wage structure
    Textos para discussão, FGV EESP - Escola de Economia de São Paulo, Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil) View citations (7)
    Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2011) View citations (233)
24. Test score disclosure and school performance
    Textos para discussão, FGV EESP - Escola de Economia de São Paulo, Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil) View citations (3)

2010

25. Bounds on functionals of the distribution treatment effects
    Textos para discussão, FGV EESP - Escola de Economia de São Paulo, Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil) View citations (9)
26. Decomposition Methods in Economics
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (134)
    See also Chapter Decomposition Methods in Economics, Handbook of Labor Economics, Elsevier (2011) View citations (978) (2011)
27. Electoral rules, political competition and fiscal spending: regression discontinuity evidence from brazilian municipalities
    Textos para discussão, FGV EESP - Escola de Economia de São Paulo, Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil) View citations (4)
    Also in Textos para discussão, Department of Economics PUC-Rio (Brazil) (2008) View citations (16)
28. Escolaridade e o diferencial de rendimentos entre o setor privado e o setor público no Brasil
    Textos para discussão, FGV EESP - Escola de Economia de São Paulo, Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil) View citations (1)
    Also in Textos para discussão, Department of Economics PUC-Rio (Brazil) (2008) View citations (2)
29. Identification and Estimation of Distributional Impacts of Interventions Using Changes in Inequality Measures
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (8)
    See also Journal Article Identification and Estimation of Distributional Impacts of Interventions Using Changes in Inequality Measures, Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (2016) View citations (43) (2016)
30. Identification and estimation of interventions using changes in inequality measures
    Textos para discussão, FGV EESP - Escola de Economia de São Paulo, Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil) View citations (4)
31. The relationship between school violence and student proficiency
    Textos para discussão, FGV EESP - Escola de Economia de São Paulo, Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil) View citations (1)

2009

32. Electoral Rules, Political Competition and Fiscal Expenditures: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (14)
    See also Journal Article Electoral Rules, Political Competition and Fiscal Expenditures: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities, Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals (2019) View citations (11) (2019)

2007

33. Unconditional Quantile Regressions
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (55)
    Also in Textos para discussão, Department of Economics PUC-Rio (Brazil) (2006) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Unconditional Quantile Regressions, Econometrica, Econometric Society (2009) View citations (1250) (2009)

2006

34. Os efeitos da licença maternidade sobre o salário e o emprego da mulher no Brasil
    Textos para discussão, Department of Economics PUC-Rio (Brazil)

2004

35. Efficient Semiparametric Estimation of Quantile Treatment Effects
    Econometric Society 2004 North American Summer Meetings, Econometric Society View citations (55)
    See also Journal Article Efficient Semiparametric Estimation of Quantile Treatment Effects, Econometrica, Econometric Society (2007) View citations (338) (2007)

Journal Articles

2024

1. The labor market in Brazil, 2001–2022
   IZA World of Labor, 2024, 441v2

2023

2. Uniform inference for value functions
   Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 235, (2), 1680-1699 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Uniform inference for value functions, Papers (2022) View citations (1) (2022)

2022

3. Changes in the women’s labor market and education and their impacts on marriage and inequality: evidence from Brazil
   Empirical Economics, 2022, 62, (4), 1909-1950
4. GMM quantile regression
   Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 230, (2), 432-452 View citations (5)
5. Labor Market Experience and Falling Earnings Inequality in Brazil: 1995–2012
   The World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36, (1), 37-67 View citations (4)
   See also Working Paper Labor market experience and falling earnings inequality in Brazil: 1995–2012, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2022) View citations (3) (2022)

2021

6. Can women's performance in elections determine the engagement of adolescent girls in politics?
   European Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 70, (C) View citations (4)

2020

7. Balancing tests in stratified randomized controlled trials: A cautionary note
   Economics Letters, 2020, 186, (C) View citations (2)

2019

8. Actual and counterfactual growth incidence and delta Lorenz curves: Estimation and inference
   Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34, (3), 385-402 View citations (9)
9. Electoral Rules, Political Competition and Fiscal Expenditures: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
   Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55, (1), 19-38 View citations (11)
   See also Working Paper Electoral Rules, Political Competition and Fiscal Expenditures: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities, IZA Discussion Papers (2009) View citations (14) (2009)
10. PROPERTIES OF DOUBLY ROBUST ESTIMATORS WHEN NUISANCE FUNCTIONS ARE ESTIMATED NONPARAMETRICALLY
    Econometric Theory, 2019, 35, (5), 1048-1087 View citations (14)
11. Partial identification of the treatment effect distribution and its functionals
    Journal of Econometrics, 2019, 213, (1), 210-234 View citations (17)

2018

12. Decomposing Wage Distributions Using Recentered Influence Function Regressions
    Econometrics, 2018, 6, (2), 1-40 View citations (230)
13. Information, Market Incentives, and Student Performance: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design in Brazil
    Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53, (2), 414-444 View citations (8)
14. Synthetic Control Method: Inference, Sensitivity Analysis and Confidence Sets
    Journal of Causal Inference, 2018, 6, (2), 26 View citations (102)
15. The labor market in Brazil, 2001–2015
    IZA World of Labor, 2018, 441

2017

16. Electoral impacts of uncovering public school quality: Evidence from Brazilian municipalities
    Economia, 2017, 17, (1), 1_17 View citations (3)
    See also Working Paper Electoral Impacts of Uncovering Public School Quality: Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities, IZA Discussion Papers (2012) View citations (3) (2012)
17. Identifying and measuring economic discrimination
    IZA World of Labor, 2017, 347 View citations (3)
18. Measurement errors in quantile regression models
    Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 198, (1), 146-164 View citations (12)

2016

19. Identification and Estimation of Distributional Impacts of Interventions Using Changes in Inequality Measures
    Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31, (3), 457-486 View citations (43)
    See also Working Paper Identification and Estimation of Distributional Impacts of Interventions Using Changes in Inequality Measures, IZA Discussion Papers (2010) View citations (8) (2010)
20. Using occupational structure to measure employability with an application to the Brazilian labor market
    The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2016, 14, (1), 1-19
    Also in The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2016, 14, (1), 1-19 (2016) View citations (1)
    The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2016, 14, (1), 1-19 (2016)

2015

21. Measuring peer effects in the Brazilian school system
    Applied Economics, 2015, 47, (32), 3414-3438 View citations (2)
22. The relationship between federal budget amendments and local electoral power
    Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 116, (C), 186-198 View citations (13)
    See also Working Paper The Relationship between Federal Budget Amendments and Local Electoral Power, IZA Discussion Papers (2014) (2014)

2014

23. A propensity score approach in the impact evaluation on scientific production in Brazilian biodiversity research: the BIOTA Program
    Scientometrics, 2014, 101, (1), 85-107 View citations (5)
24. Evidence of eligibility manipulation for conditional cash transfer programs
    Economia, 2014, 15, (3), 243_260 View citations (8)
    See also Working Paper Evidence of eligibility manipulation for conditional cash transfer programs, Textos para discussão (2013) View citations (2) (2013)

2013

25. A relação entre proficiência e dispersão de idade na sala de aula: a influência do nível de qualificação do professor
    Pesquisa e Planejamento Econômico - PPE, 2013, 43, (3), 419-446
    See also Working Paper A relação entre proficiência e dispersão de idade na sala de aula: a influência do nível de qualificação do professor, Textos para discussão (2013) View citations (1) (2013)

2012

26. Combining Strategies for the Estimation of Treatment Effects
    Brazilian Review of Econometrics, 2012, 32, (1)

2010

27. The Impact of the Economic Crisis on the Well-Being of Families in Brazil
    Estudios Económicos, 2010, 25, (1), 63-104

2009

28. Unconditional Quantile Regressions
    Econometrica, 2009, 77, (3), 953-973 View citations (1250)
    See also Working Paper Unconditional Quantile Regressions, NBER Technical Working Papers (2007) View citations (55) (2007)

2007

29. Efficient Semiparametric Estimation of Quantile Treatment Effects
    Econometrica, 2007, 75, (1), 259-276 View citations (338)
    See also Working Paper Efficient Semiparametric Estimation of Quantile Treatment Effects, Econometric Society 2004 North American Summer Meetings (2004) View citations (55) (2004)

2001

30. Job Placement: Gender Differences and Consequences on Welfare
    Brazilian Review of Econometrics, 2001, 21, (1)

Chapters

2011

1. Decomposition Methods in Economics
   Elsevier View citations (978)
   See also Working Paper Decomposition Methods in Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2010) View citations (134) (2010)