Publications

Does Local Politics Drive Tropical Land-Use Change? Property-Level Evidence from the Amazon
(with Fanny Moffette) (Conditionally Accepted at The Economic Journal)
Working Paper   Slides

Timing is Everything: Labor Market Winners and Losers during Boom-Bust Cycles
(with Dominic Parker and Steven Poelhekke) (Accepted at JAERE)
Accepted Version   CEPR Discussion Paper   Slides (English)   Slides (Portuguese)   Ipea Webinar (Portuguese)

Winning and Losing the Resource Lottery: Governance after Uncertain Oil Discoveries
Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 166 (2024)
Published Version   Slides   Replication Package
Media Coverage:   VoxDev   World Bank Development Impact Blog   Grist

Quantifying the Effects of Energy Infrastructure on Bird Populations and Biodiversity
Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 58(1), pp. 323–332 (2024)
Published Version   Open Access Pre-Print   Slides   Public Lecture   Replication Package
Media Coverage:   The Economist   Los Angeles Times   Die Presse (Austria)   Courrier International (France)   Focus Online (Germany)   BNNVARA (Netherlands)   El Imparcial (Mexico)   El Nacional (Spain)   ETC (Sweden)   Le Temps (Switzerland)   Tages Anzeiger (Switzerland)   Basler Zeitung (Switzerland)   Berner Zeitung (Switzerland)   Der Bund (Switzerland)   Enrique Dans (Medium Blog)   Big Pivots (USA)   The Song Sparrow (Quebec)

The Relation Between Labor Productivity and Wages in Brazil: A Sectoral Analysis
(with Alexandre Gori Maia)
Nova Economia, Vol. 28(1), pp. 7-38 (2018)
PDF   Published Version

Are GMO Policies “Trade Related”? Empirical Analysis of Latin America
(with Pamela Smith)
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Vol. 39(2), pp. 286-312 (2017)
Published Version

Working Papers

Dynamic Firm Adaptation to Sanctions: Evidence from the Russian Oil Industry
[Draft Available Upon Request]

Local and Multinational Comparative Advantage in the Global Mining Industry
(with Jonah Rexer and Utsoree Das)
Latest Working Paper   STEG Working Paper

The Global Distribution of Critical Mining Impacts (with Jonah Rexer)
Working Paper

Explosive Diversification: Organized Crime Adaptation to Mexico’s Crackdown on Fuel Theft (with Itzel de Haro Lopez)
Working Paper

Firm-Level Impacts of Industrial Policy: Evidence from Brazil’s Upstream Oil Industry
(with Fabio Maciel) Funded by STEG Small Research Grant
[Draft Coming Soon!]

Work in Progress

Seeds of Influence: The Political Economy of Brazil’s Soy Boom
(with Ricardo Dahis)

Traceability and Sustainability in Cacao Supply Chains: Experimental Evidence from Ghana
(with Salvatore di Falco and Utsoree Das) Funded by Horizons Europe “Transformative Pathways” Project

Supply Response to Oil Production Taxes: Evidence from the US Royalty Relief Program
(with Julien Daubanes, Diego Cardoso, and Pritam Saha)

Human Capital and Local Spillovers Across the Mining Lifecycle
(with Steven Poelhekke and Fabio Maciel)

From Crops to Kilowatts: Drivers of Solar Adoption in California’s Central Valley
(with Cam McClure)