Gender and Electoral Incentives: Evidence from COVID-19 Response
Why men and women leaders make different choices: female mayors of Brazilian cities responded differently to the COVID-19 crisis depending on electoral incentives, and the gender gap is driven entirely by mayors facing re-election.
The Undercounting of Births to Child Mothers
Births to girls aged 10 to 14 are systematically undercounted: across birth registries from 37 countries and censuses from 73, contemporaneous censuses report fewer such births than registries, while censuses taken a decade later report more.
Connectivity and Misallocation in Multi-Unit Firms
When new airline routes connect Brazilian branches to their headquarters, branch survival and employment fall — a reversal of patterns seen in developed economies, where misallocation is less severe.
Long-term effects of weather-induced migration on urban labor and housing markets
The long-term effects of weather-induced rural-to-urban migration on receiving cities’ labor and housing markets in Brazil, using historical drought patterns as a source of variation.