Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and the Graduate Program in Economics (PPGE) at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB). Postdoctoral Researcher at FEA/USP – NEREUS (Center for Regional and Urban Economics), PhD in Applied Economics from UFRGS, and CNPq Research Productivity Fellow. His research interests include social economics, impact evaluation and public policies, labor market, and political and social economics (inequality, health).
