Working Papers

Masculinity Norms and their Economic Implications, with Victoria Baranov, Ralph de Haas, and Pauline Grosjean 

Accepted at the Annual Review of Economics


Expected Discrimination and Job Search, with Deivis Angeli and Fernando Secco

Revised and resubmitted to the American Economic Review

Media: World Bank Development Impact, Nexo Políticas Públicas, Le Monde


We Don't Talk About Boys: Masculinity Norms Among Adolescents in Brazil

Reject and resubmit at the Journal of Political Economy

Media: Folha de São Paulo, EconomistAs podcast, World Bank Development Impact


Masculinity Around the World, with Victoria Baranov, Ralph de Haas, and Pauline Grosjean (submitted)

[video summary] Previous version LiTS only (43 countries)

Media: Vox CEPR Podcast


Psychedelics and Well-Being: An Experiment in Brazil, with Patrick Francois and Matt Lowe (submitted)


Employment Preferences of Favela Residents, with Mayara Felix, Beatriz Marcoje, and Maria Clara Rodrigues

Submitted to the American Economic Association: Papers and Proceedings


Selected Work in Progress

Women's Cognitive Load and Labor Market Outcomes in Brazil, with Deivis Angeli, Beatriz Marcoje and Jamie McCasland (Design stage -- MOU signed with the Secretariat of Planning of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro) [Project Summary]

Wage Gap Disclosure in the Tropics, with Mayara Felix and Bobby Pakzad-Hurson. Draft coming soon! Policy brief (in Portuguese)

Wage Transparency Within and Across Firms: Experimental Evidence From Brazil, with Mayara Felix and Bobby Pakzad-Hurson (MOU signed with the Brazilian Ministry of Planning) [Project Summary]

Masculinity Norms and Social Learning: Theory and Evidence, with Marcos Ross

Misperceived Masculinity Norms: Evidence From 32 Countries, [draft available upon request] with Victoria Baranov, Ralph de Haas, and Pauline Grosjean

Demand for the Manosphere, with Victoria Baranov, Ralph de Haas, and Pauline Grosjean


Pre-PhD Publications (in Portuguese)


Efeitos de Tamanho da Sala no Desempenho dos Alunos: Evidências Usando Regressões Descontínuas no Brasil (with Naercio Menezes Filho). Revista Brasileira de Economia 74 (2020): 352-401.

Determinantes da Distribuição da (Des) igualdade de Gênero entre os Estados Brasileiros (with Regina Madalozzo and Adriana Bruscato). Estudos Econômicos (São Paulo) 46 (2016): 161-188.