I am an assistant professor at the economics department of Southern Methodist University. My research focuses on environmental and public economics.
I obtained a Ph.D. in economics at the Toulouse School of Economics, and worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Before my Ph.D., I worked at the environmental consultancy Trinomics and the state government of São Paulo.
PUBLICATIONS
Virtual Reality Only Mildly Improves Forest Conservation Behaviors | Scientific Reports, 2024
(with Sanchayan Banerjee)
WORKING PAPERS
Algorithms and Bureaucrats: Evidence from Tax Audit Selection in Senegal
(with Pierre Bachas, Anne Brockmeyer, Bassirou Sarr) | RCT registry here | Blog post [submitted]
Indigenous Deterrence and Tropical Deforestation: Evidence from Historical Indigenous Extinctions
(with Bruno Barsanetti) | Ethno-historical dataset | Dictionary of Extinctions | Replication Package | [submitted]
Amazon Deforestation: Drivers, Damages, and Policies [submitted]
Satellites and Fines: Using Monitoring to Target Inspections of Deforestation [submitted]
Optimal (double) taxation with tax evasion and firm growth
WORK IN PROGRESS
Who Takes the Carrots When There Are Also Sticks? Overlapping Regulations and Forest Restoration in Brazil’s Reflorestar Program
(With Jennifer Alix-Garcia and Katharine Sims)
Monitoring Local Bureaucrats: Using Satellite Data to Improve the Enforcement of Waste Dump Regulation in Peru
(With Manuel Barron) | J-PAL summary
Reducing Discretion in the Assignment of Enforcement Cases: Evidence from Inspections in Peru
Connectivity in Remote Areas: Impact of an Internet Rollout in the Amazon Forest
(With Luiz Felipe Fontes and Beatrice Fontenelle-Weber)
Income Shocks and Land Use: Disentangling Extensive and Intensive Margins
(With Ivan de las Heras)
The impact of COVID-19 on formal companies in Senegal (in French), World Bank Practice Notes, 2020
(With Pierre Bachas, Anne Brockmeyer, Bassirou Sarr and Camille Semelet)
Green infrastructure and flood management. European Environmental Agency, 2017
(With Gorm Dige, Lisa Eichler, Jurgen Vermeulen, Koen Rademaekers, Veronique Adreanssens, Dagna Kolaszewka)
Selecting indicators to measure energy poverty. European Commission, 2016
(With Koen Rademaekers, Jessica Yearwood, Steve Pye, Ian Hamilton, Paolo Agnolucci, Nataliya Anisimova)
Study in support of the mid-term evaluation of the functioning and the implementation of Council Directive 2009/119/EC on Oil Stocks. European Commission, 2016.
(With Nick van der Lijn, Rob Williams, Jurgen Vermeulen)
The Brazilian housing deficit remains high (in Portuguese), Conjuntura da Construção, June 2016
(With Ana Maria Castelo)
The profile of civil construction workers in Brazil (in Portuguese), Conjuntura da Construção, March 2015
(With Ana Maria Castelo)
Indicator shows improvement in housing supply (in Portuguese), Conjuntura da Construção, May 2013
(With Ana Maria Castelo and Robson Gonçalves)
An incomplete recovery in the construction sector (in Portuguese), Conjuntura da Construção, May 2012
(With Roberto Aragão and Robson Gonçalves)
Why we should break the government's monopoly over vaccine distribution (in Portuguese), 3 February 2021, Gazeta do Povo
Fiscal Policies in emerging countries as a response to the COVID-19 crisis, 10 November 2020, BSI Economics
Interview with CNN Brazil about the French report on the EU-Mercosur trade agreement (in Portuguese), 25 September 2020, CNN Brazil
Three government tasks in Brazil, 4 February 2020, BSI Economics
The unanimity rule is not a piece of decoration (in Portuguese), 30 April 2015, Valor Econômico
Collective costs and private benefits in tax competition (in Portuguese), 5 March 2015, Valor Econômico
Bad news from Switzerland (in Portuguese), 21 February 2014, Valor Econômico
Inflation is running too high (in Portuguese), 12 February 2014, Valor Econômico (with Samy Dana)
I am also a co-founder and occasional writer at the economics website Terraço Econômico (in Portuguese). My articles can be found here.
