Rodrigo R. Soares

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Columbia University

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Rodrigo R. Soares is Lemann Professor of Brazilian Public Policy and International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Rodrigo’s research centers on development economics, ranging from labor, human capital, and demographic economics, to crime. His work has appeared in various scientific journals, including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and Journal of Development Economics, among various others. Before joining Columbia, Soares taught at the Sao Paulo School of Economics-FGV, where he is still and Adjunct Professor, and at PUC-Rio, the University of Maryland, and the Harvard School of Public Health.

In 2006, he was awarded the Kenneth J. Arrow Award from the International Health Economics Association for the best paper published in the field of Health Economics. Soares is also research affiliate at J-PAL Latin America, and associate editor of the Journal of Human Capital, the Journal of Demographic Economics, and the IZA Journal of Labor & Development. He received his Ph.D. in Economics under the guidance of Gary S. Becker at the University of Chicago in 2002.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in January 2007.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12164
Glyphosate Use in Agriculture and Birth Outcomes of Surrounding Populations
Mateus Dias, Rudi Rocha, Rodrigo R. Soares
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12111
Does Universalization of Health Work? Evidence from Health Systems Restructuring and Expansion in Brazil
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Rudi Rocha, Rodrigo R. Soares
substantially revised version available from the authors soon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10791
Selection on Ability and the Early Career Growth in the Gender Wage Gap
Eduardo Fraga, Gustavo Gonzaga, Rodrigo R. Soares
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9951
Workforce Composition, Productivity, and Labor Regulations in a Compensating Differentials Theory of Informality
Daniel Haanwinckel, Rodrigo R. Soares
forthcoming in: Review of Economic Studies, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9764
Competition and the Racial Wage Gap: Testing Becker's Model of Employer Discrimination
Guilherme Hirata, Rodrigo R. Soares
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 146, Article 102519
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9638
Local Labor Market Conditions and Crime: Evidence from the Brazilian Trade Liberalization
Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Rodrigo R. Soares, Gabriel Ulyssea
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (4), 158-195
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9101
Human Capital Persistence and Development
Rudi Rocha, Claudio Ferraz, Rodrigo R. Soares
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9 (4), 105-136
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8586
Gary Becker's Contributions in Health Economics
Rodrigo R. Soares
published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81 (1), 51-57
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7189
Living on the Edge: Youth Entry, Career and Exit in Drug-Selling Gangs
Leandro Carvalho, Rodrigo R. Soares
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 121, 77-98
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6773
Water Scarcity and Birth Outcomes in the Brazilian Semiarid
Rudi Rocha, Rodrigo R. Soares
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 112, 72–91
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6371
Spillovers from Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Bolsa Família and Crime in Urban Brazil
Laura Chioda, João M. P. de Mello, Rodrigo R. Soares
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 54, 306-320
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5923
The Use of Violence in Illegal Markets: Evidence from Mahogany Trade in the Brazilian Amazon
Ariaster B. Chimeli, Rodrigo R. Soares
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9 (4), 30-57
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5917
Access to Justice and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Brazil's Special Civil Tribunals
Guilherme Lichand, Rodrigo R. Soares
published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2014, 57 (2), 459-499
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5270
Organization and Information in the Fight against Crime: An Evaluation of the Integration of Police Forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Rodrigo R. Soares, Igor Viveiros
published in: Economía: Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, 2017, 17 (2), 29-63
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4276
Institutional Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil
Joana Naritomi, Rodrigo R. Soares, Juliano J. Assunção
published in: Journal of Economic History, 2012, 72 (2), 393-422
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4119
Evaluating the Impact of Community-Based Health Interventions: Evidence from Brazil's Family Health Program
Romero Rocha, Rodrigo R. Soares
published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (S1), 126-158
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2783
Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children: Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare
Javier A. Birchenall, Rodrigo R. Soares
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (1-2), 280-295
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2776
Household Choices of Child Labor and Schooling: A Simple Model with Application to Brazil
Diana Kruger, Rodrigo R. Soares, Matias Berthelon
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 47 (1), 1-31
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2771
Health and the Evolution of Welfare across Brazilian Municipalities
Rodrigo R. Soares
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2007, 84(2), 590–608
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