Research

My core research focuses on econometric theory, with a strong focus on its applications in labor economics. Notwithstanding, I have also produced analysis about education, housing, minimum wage, electric mobility, and Portuguese and European politics.

Working Papers

• Mind the Gap: How Coworkers Shape Team Composition (paper); with Jaime Montana and Joana Silva.
• Gelbach in logit: a covariate decomposition for the logit model applied to the minimum wage’s heterogeneous impact (master thesis); supervised by Pedro Raposo.
  • Award: European Evaluation Society best master thesis, 2^nd place (social media, website).

Ongoing Research

• discordAR: An App that Measures Political Proximity Between Portuguese Parties (In Portuguese: app and article); with Sebastião Fonte.
  • Prize: Arquivo.pt, awarded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, AMCC mention (link)
  • Media: Público (link), interview at Encontro Ciência 2024 (link).
• Competition or Backlash? How Political Dynamics Shapes the SGDs Agenda; with with Ricardo Ferreira Reis and Sebastião Fonte.
• SDG Policy Observatory: Track EU Parliamentary Record; with with Ricardo Ferreira Reis and Sebastião Fonte.
• Political Polarization in Portugal and some other Political Facts (presentation); with Sebastião Fonte.

Analysis and Articles

• Renting in Portugal Has Become Unaffordable (in Portuguese: article)
  • Media: research disseminated and graphs replicated by the newspaper Expresso (web and paper versions); radio interview to Renascença (spotify link).
  • Discussion: most popular article of the day in r/portugal (web link).
• The Decrease of Teachers’ Wages (in Portuguese: article); with Mafalda Gouveia.
  • Media: article published by Observador (web link)
  • Discussion: analysis used in several debates (excerpts).
• Are Bloco de Esquerda and Initiativa Liberal Similar in Civil Liberties? (in Portuguese: article); with Sebastião Fonte.
• MFA (with Ricardo Ferreira Reis and Sebastião Fonte).

Projects at PROSPER Reseach Center

As a Research Fellow at PROSPER, I’ve collaborated on several different projects funded by several institutions. Here is a list of some of them:

• PROSPER Portuguese Linked Employer Employee Microdata Manual.
  • RPackage QPcleaneR github link.
• The Burden of the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Portugal (paper).
• Electric Mobility in Portugal: where are we and where are we heading? (in Portuguese: report, presentation, newsletters 1 and 2).
• The returns of vocational education in Portugal (paper).
• The Portuguese Economy (presentation).
• Employment and Social Inclusion: Evaluability of Policies Co-financed by European Funds (in Portuguese: research deliverables dossier 1 and 2).