Research

Work in Progress

• Cash Transfers and Formal Labor Markets: Evidence from Brazil (with Francois Gerard & Joana Naritomi), CEPR Discussion Paper, (R&R Econometrica) [VoxDev]

• Trust in Government and Support for Redistribution (with Anna Bernard, Victoria Levin, & Matteo Morgandi), CEPR Discussion Paper

• The Great Equalizer: How Firms Reduce Wage Inequality  (with Martim Leitão & Jaime Montaña), CEPR Discussion Paper [Online Appendix] [VoxEU]

• Adjusting to Transitory Shocks Worker Impact, Firm Channels, and (Lack of) Income Support, (with Ana Margarida Fernandes), World Bank Working Paper [Slides]

• Trade, Skills and Produtivity, (with Giordano Mion & Rafael Proença)

• Business Cycles, Firm Dynamics, and Workforce Composition, (with Sara Moreira)

• A Lifetime of Recovery: Adjusting to External Demand Shocks and Firm Scarring, (with Ana Margarida Fernandes & Martim Leitão)

• The Cyclicality of Earnings Inequality: Evidence from Portuguese and Brazilian Administrative Data, (with Martim Leitão & Jaime Montana)

• Margins of Adjustment and Distributional Consequences of Exchange Rate Shocks: Firm-Level Evidence from Portugal, (with Martim Leitão)

• Why do Firms Train? Evidence on the Role of Market Power in the Firm's Decision to Train, (with Catarina Gaspar and Jaime Montaña)

• Employment versus Efficiency: Which Firms should R&D Tax Credits Target?”, (with Anna Bernard and Rahim Lila)

Published Papers 

• Twenty Years of Wage Inequality in Latin America. (with Julian Messina), World Bank Economic Review 35(1), 117-147, 2021. 

• Export Destinations and Input Prices. (with Paulo Bastos & Eric Verhoogen), American Economic Review, 108(2), 353-392, 2018. 

• International Competition, Returns to Skill and Labor Market Adjustment. (with Rod Falvey & David Greenaway), World Economy, 41(4), 1000-1024, 2018.

• Exports and Job Training. (with Paulo Bastos & Rafael Proenca), Review of International Economics, 24(4), 737-756, 2016.

• Informality and Exclusion: Evidence from Matched Employer-employee Data for Lebanon and Syria. (with Mohamad Alloush, Carole Chartouni, & Roberta Gatti), IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2(18), 1-18, 2013.

• Networks, Firms, and Trade. (with Paulo Bastos), Journal of International Economics, 87(2), 352-364, 2012.

• The Quality of a Firm's Exports: Where you Export to Matters. (with Paulo Bastos), Journal of International Economics, 82(2), 99-111, 2010. Lead article.

• Trade Liberalization and Human Capital Adjustment. (with Rod Falvey & David Greenaway), Journal of International Economics, 81(2), 230-239, 2010.

• Identifying Vertically Differentiated Products. (with Paulo Bastos), Economics Letters, 106(1), 32-34, 2010.

• Intra-industry Trade Expansion and Employment Reallocation between Sectors and Occupations. (with Manuel Cabral),  Review of World Economics, 142(3), 496-521, 2006.