Working Papers
- “Counterfactual Analysis for Structural Dynamic Discrete Choice Models,” 2024
with Myrto Kalouptsidi, Yuichi Kitamura, and Lucas Lima
Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 2221
accepted at The Review of Economic Studies
- “The Forest Awakens: Amazon Regeneration and Policy Spillovers,” 2019
with Clarissa Gandour and Juliano Assuncao
- “Reducing Pollution under the Clean Air Act: A Re-assessment of the Benefits,”
with Robert McMillan and Joshua Murphy
- “Nonparametric Estimation of a Generalized Regression Model with Group Effects,” 2015, under review
- Award for best econometrics paper, Brazilian Econometric Society Meetings 2014
Published and Forthcoming Papers
- “Improving Estimates of Transitions from Satellite Data: A Hidden Markov Model Approach,” 2025
with Adrian Torchiana, Ted Rosenbaum, and Paul Scott
The Review of Economics and Statistics
- “Environmental Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops,” 2024
with F. Noack, D. Engist, J. Gantois, V. Gaur, B. F. Hyjazie, A. Larsen, L. K. M’Gonigle, A. Missirian, M. Qaim, R. D. Sargent, and C. Kremen
Science
- “The Environmental Impacts of Protected Area Policy,” 2024
with Mathias Reynaert and Arthur A. van Benthem
Regional Science and Urban Economics
- “Optimal Environmental Targeting in the Amazon Rainforest,” 2023
with Juliano Assuncao, Robert McMillan, and Joshua Murphy
The Review of Economic Studies
- Supplemental Material
- Featured in: Instituto Escolhas (Brazilian NGO)
- “Identification of Counterfactuals in Dynamic Discrete Choice Models,” 2021
with Myrto Kalouptsidi and Paul Scott
Quantitative Economics
- Award for best econometrics paper, Brazilian Econometric Society Meetings 2016
- “Linear IV Regression Estimators for Structural Dynamic Discrete Choice Models,” 2021
with Myrto Kalouptsidi and Paul Scott
Journal of Econometrics
- “Deforestation in the Amazon: A Unified Framework for Estimation and Policy Analysis,” 2019
The Review of Economics Studies
- Supplemental Material
- Featured in: OUPBlog
- “On the Non-Identification of Counterfactuals in Dynamic Discrete Games,” 2017
with Myrto Kalouptsidi and Paul Scott
International Journal of Industrial Organization
- “Minimum Wage and Wage Inequality in Brazil, 1981-1999: A Semiparametric Approach,” 2009
with Naércio A. Menezes-Filho
Revista Brasileira de Economia (in Portuguese)
Book Chapter
- “Policy Interventions in the Amazon Rainforest,” 2014
in GAF Academy: Global Agribusiness Forum, 1st edition, Datagro Publicações Ltda., São Paulo, Brazil
Work in Progress
- “Cows and Trees,”
with Paul Scott, Ted Rosenbaum, and Skand Goel
- “Environmental Regulation, Labor Reallocation and Welfare,”
with Lint Barrage and Maximilian Dvorkin
- “How Inefficiency at the Bottom Increases Profitability at the Top: The Case of the Copper Industry,”
with Victor Aguirregabiria and Andres Luengo
- “A Nonparametric Dynamic Structural Model for the Estimation of Option Values in Natural Resource Investments,”
with Victor Aguirregabiria
Working Papers in Portuguese
- “Fatores de Risco e o Spread Bancário no Brasil,” 2006
with Fernando G. Bignotto
Brazilian Central Bank Working Paper Series
- “O Efeito da Consignação em Folha nas Taxas de Juros dos Empréstimos Pessoais,” 2006
with Victorio Chu, Leonardo S. Alencar and Tony Takeda
Brazilian Central Bank Working Paper Series
- “Efeitos dos Recolhimentos Compulsórios sobre a Distribuição das Taxas de Juros Bancárias no Brasil,” 2004
with Tony Takeda
Brazilian Central Bank Report: Relatório de Economia Bancária e Crédito
Non-Academic Report
- “Comments on the SAB Panel Draft Report Regarding EPA’s Framework for Assessing Biogenic CO2 Emissions from Stationary Sources (2014),” 2016
with Timothy Searchinger, William Moomaw and Paul Scott