🚨Lecture Notes and PSets🚨I teach a half-course on Microeconometrics. My part covers Identification and Estimation under CIA, Nonparametric Estimation, LATE, MTE, RDD and Partial Identification. You can find my notes, problem sets and references here: sites.google.com/site/vitorapos…

The 2025 meeting of the LACEA Vox.LACEA will take place in November 2025 in beautiful Recife, Brazil at the UFPE PIMES - Pós Graduação em Economia UFPE. I am sure local organizers breno sampaio and @rflcostalima will pull off an unforgettable conference and I am happy to chair the program committee 🇧🇷

Minha coluna de hoje no Globo sobre a PEC da escala 6x1. Ela pode gerar efeitos opostos aos desejados. oglobo.globo.com/opiniao/artigo…

🚨 I am very happy to share that our paper "Short selling and product market competition" (co-authored with Rafael Matta e Sergio H. Rocha) has just been published online (free access) at the Journal of Banking and Finance: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Recently accepted to #REStud, ``Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence'' from Bhalotra, Britto, Pinotti and Sampaio: restud.com/job-displaceme…

Forthcoming in EJ: ‘Climate Change Mitigation Policies: Aggregate and Distributional Effects’ by Tiago Cavalcanti Zeina Hasna Cezar Santos doi.org/10.1093/ej/uea… Royal Economic Society Oxford Journals #EconTwitter

This is a new paper with Felipe Galvão Puccioni drive.google.com/file/d/1etxuJ4… and my first RCT. We investigate how management practices impact student learning through a RCT conducted with 31,760 students from 80 grade 1–9 public schools in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro.

The call for papers for the 2025 LACEA conference is out. The conference will be in Recife, Brazil, Nov 20-22 lacea2025.org. Please submit your paper before May 30th Vox.LACEA UFPE PIMES - Pós Graduação em Economia UFPE

Our paper on Amazon deforestation is out! Grateful to everyone who helped along the way. I'd like to highlight one thing that made a huge difference: clear and thoughtful guidance from the editor.

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Amazing paper about Local Projections and its relationship with VARs, with a focus on practical implementation. Everyone in the business of estimating impulse-responses should be aware of these issues. Main message: there is no-free lunch, but LP is generally more robust 1/3

We often think of transportation infrastructure as a key driver of economic growth. And that’s true. But it also has a big environmental footprint -- one that’s often underestimated.

What happens before and after tenure? Check out our latest paper in PNAS PNASNews: Tenure and Research Trajectories Led by Giorgio Tripodi, postdoc in my lab. Fun collaboration with Xiangzheng, Yifan Qian, Dakota Murray, Ben Jones & Chaoqun Ni 1/n

Trend inflation and weak identification in the New Keynesian Phillips curve, by Igor Mendes, Edilean kleber, e Marcelo E.A. Silva 👇👇👇👇 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Very excited for the publication of our new work on inequality and taxation in Brazil -- please join us for the live conference with minister Fernando Haddad starting now! Paper: taxobservatory.eu//www-site/uplo… Conference: youtube.com/@MinFazenda

Can a central bank tighten monetary policy and actually see real interest rates FALL? My new research paper finds that under certain conditions, the answer is a surprising YES. A thread on a monetary policy puzzle (1/8) #Economics #MonetaryPolicy #CentralBank

I don't understand why some working papers still place tables and figures at the very end. Back in the typewriter era, this made sense. But today, embedding them directly in the text is almost costless, and it makes papers far easier to read, especially on a screen. Instead of