PUBLICATIONS

Cash Transfers and the Local Economy: Evidence from Brazil (with François Gerard and Joana Silva) – Conditionally Accepted at Econometrica

                 media coverage: O Globo, VoxDev, Estadão

Job Displacement Insurance in Developing Countries, forthcoming, in Rema Hanna and Ben Olken (eds.), The Handbook of Social Protection: Evidence to Inform Policy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. (with François Gerard and Gustavo Gonzaga)

Enlisting Consumers in Tax Enforcement: A Policy Review, June 2025 (vol. 78, no. 2) issue of the National Tax Journal (with Tsogsag Nyamdavaa and Stephanie Campbell)

Access to Justice and Social Protection, May 2025, AEA Papers and Proceedings 115: 329–34. (with Diogo Britto, Lorenzo Germinetti, François Gerard and Breno Sampaio)

Sanitation and Property Tax Compliance: Analyzing the Social Contract in Brazil,  Journal of Development Economics. Volume 160, January 2023 (with Evan Plous Kresch, Mark Walker, Michael Best & François Gerard).

                media coverage: Nature Water, VoxDev

Job Displacement Insurance and (the Lack of) Consumption-Smoothing (with François Gerard). American Economic Review, 111 (3): 899-942, 2021 – link to published version. Web Appendix. NBER Working Paper No. 25749 version: link

             media coverage: Folha de S. Paulo, VoxDev

Consumers as Tax Auditors  American Economic Review, 109(9): Pages 3031-3072, 2019 (Lead Article) – link to published version

              awards: Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award – Public Sector Economics, Peggy and Richard Musgrave Award,  Young Scholar Prize – Research on Business Taxation, Oxford University

              media coverage: The New York Times, The Economist, World Bank Blog

RCTs as an opportunity to promote interdisciplinary, inclusive, and diverse quantitative development research. World Development. Volume 127, March 2020 (with Sandra Sequeira, Jonathan Weigel and Diana Weinhold). SI: Symposium on Development and Poverty Alleviation.         

Institutional Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil. The Journal of Economic History. 2012; 72(2): 393-422 (with Soares R. and Assunção J.).

              media coverage: Salon, Marginal Revolution

Type of colonisation and Latin American development. In: Michalopoulos, Stelios and Elias Papaioannou (eds.), The Long Economic Shadow of History, Vol 3, CEPR VOX E-book, 2017.

Understanding High Crime Rates in Latin America: The Role of Social and Policy Factors. In: Tella RD, Edwards and S, Ernesto Schargrodsky (eds.) The Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America. Vol. 0-226-15374-6 . University of Chicago Press; 2010. p. 19 – 55 (with Soares, R.).

SELECTED WORKING IN PROGRESS

Greener on the Other Side: Inequity and Tax Compliance (with Michael Best, Luigi Caloi, François Gerard, Evan Kresch, and Laura Zoratto). NBER Working Paper No.34062 version: link

Does Progressivity Raise Tax Capacity? Experimental Evidence from the D.R. Congo (with Augustin Bergeron,  Arthur Laroche, Marina Ngoma, Gabriel Tourek, and Jonathan Weigel)

When and Why do Governments Pay More? Evidence from Brazil (with Michael Best, Augustin Chaintreau, and Dimitri Szerman)

Two-tier Tax systems and firms: evidence from Brazil (with François Gerard, Arthur Seibold and Bruno Zulian)

POLICY ARTICLES

State Capacity. In The London Consensus. LSE Press, 2025. (Dan Honig and Adnan Khan)

Value Added Tax in developing countries: Lessons from recent research. IGC Growth Brief. June 2018. (with François Gerard)

Social protection and job displacement in developing countries. IGC Policy Brief. March 2019. (with François Gerard)