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Current Position

2024–

FAPESP Postdoctoral Fellow

FGV Analytics — Analytics and Public Security Policies Research Center, São Paulo

Education

2024

PhD in Public Administration and Government

FGV-EAESP — São Paulo School of Business Administration

Committee: Ciro Biderman (chair), Gabriel Feltran, Joana Monteiro, Jessie Trudeau

Dissertation: Descanse o seu gatilho: illegal markets' hegemony and its peace dividends

Selected Publications

2025

Peace Dividends: Criminal Governance, Rational Violence, and Economic Development

American Political Science Review

2026

Improving Police Management Boosts Economic Development: Evidence from Brazil

World Development (forthcoming)

2025

Police Autonomy, Data-Driven Strategies, and Violence: Evidence from Brazil's Policing Reform

Journal of Development Economics · With Kopittke & Parfitt

2025

When Elections Empower Crime: Political Protection and Milícia Expansion in Rio de Janeiro

Latin American Politics and Society · With Montini

2025

The Cross-Border Spillover Effects of Cannabis Regulation in South America

Journal of Quantitative Criminology · With de Assis, di Pietra & Parfitt

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Teaching

2021-2024

International Development; Undergraduate Thesis Seminar 1 & 2; Crime, Governance, and Development

FGV-RI

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