Research

I specialize in economic demography, population aging, and demographic methods (indirect demographic techniques). Currently, my research is centered on studying retirement behavior and old age support systems in developing countries and methods to estimate mortality for small areas.

In particular, I am studying how demographic and institutional changes affect labor force participation and retirement behavior of workers in less developed economies and how societies are adjusting themselves to population aging. I am also researching methods to measure adult mortality in small areas using both demographic and statistical methods.

Below there is a list of the projects and papers I am currently working on.

Working Papers and Work in Progress

  1. O impacto das Doenças Tropicais Negligenciadas na expectativa de vida do Brasil e das regiões brasileiras, 2010-2019 – with Ellen Araújo (R&R)
  2. Racial classification as a multistate process – with Jeronimo Muniz and Aliya Saperstein (R&R)
  3. Estimation and projection of probabilistic age- and sex-specific mortality rates across Brazilian municipalities between 2010 and 2030 – with Marcos Gonzaga et al (R&R)
  4. Spatial patterns of excess mortality during the Covid-19 pandemic across municipalities in Brazil, 2020-2022 – with Emerson Baptista et al (work in progress)
  5. Income Fluctuations and First Child Birth Timing Among Young Couples: Analyzing Social Heterogeneity from 1982 to 2012 – with Matheus Menezes dos Santos (work in progress)
  6. Ageing, Labor Market and Automation – with Vegard Skirbekk (work in progress)