Crime-associated inequality in geographical access to education: Insights from the municipality of Rio de Janeiro
Cities, 2025
View articleAbout
I am a Professor of Sociology at the Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Políticos (IESP) of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). I hold a PhD in Sociology from the University of São Paulo (USP), where I also completed my Master's degree. I did my undergraduate studies in Social Sciences at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG).
I completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Political Science at USP, was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Sociology at Columbia University, and an Affiliated Scholar at the Brazil Lab at Princeton University.
I co-coordinate the Centro para o Estudo da Riqueza e Estratificação Social (CERES-IESP/UERJ) with Carlos Antônio Costa Ribeiro, and I am an associated researcher at the Centro de Estudos da Metrópole (CEM-USP).
My research focuses on long-term trends in income inequality in Brazil, using historical surveys, administrative data, and contemporary microdata. I also develop open-source R packages for social research.
Research
My research examines inequality, stratification, and labor markets through quantitative methods.
Income Inequality
Long-term trends in earnings inequality in Brazil (1960-present), examining the roles of education, labor market institutions, and policy.
Social Stratification
Intergenerational mobility, educational inequality, and the reproduction of social advantages across generations.
Labor Markets
Employment dynamics, occupational structure, informality, and the impacts of economic crises on workers.
Quantitative Methods
Survey methodology, causal inference, spatial analysis, and development of R packages for social research.
Urban Violence & Education
Impacts of armed group territorial control on educational outcomes in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area.
Social Policy
Cash transfer programs, emergency aid during COVID-19, and their effects on poverty and inequality.
Current Projects
InfoCitizen - Informational Citizenship
Studying citizenship practices and technologies around data production in the Global South, focusing on Brazil's 2022 census controversies.
Armed Groups and Educational Inequality
Examining how territorial control by armed groups (drug trafficking and militias) constrains educational opportunities in Rio de Janeiro.
Research Center
CERES - Center for the Study of Wealth and Social Stratification
I co-coordinate CERES with Carlos Antônio Costa Ribeiro. The center conducts systematic research on stratification, mobility, inequality, wealth, poverty, and labor markets in Brazil.
Selected Publications
Full list available on Google Scholar (900+ citations, h-index: see profile).
Decomposing Heterogeneity in Inequality of Educational Opportunities: Family Income and Academic Performance in Brazilian Higher Education
Sociological Science, 2024
View articleA Sociologia da desigualdade de renda
Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais, 2023
View articleFree public transit and voter turnout
Electoral Studies, 2023
View articleHigher risk of death from COVID-19 in low-income and non-White populations of São Paulo, Brazil
BMJ Global Health, 2021
View articleThe Impact of COVID-19 in Brazil: Labour Market and Social Protection Responses
The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2020
View articleEducational expansion, inequality and poverty reduction in Brazil: A simulation study
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2019
View articleDesigualdade de Rendimentos do Trabalho no Curto e no Longo Prazo: Tendências de Idade, Período e Coorte
Dados - Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2016
View articleTrabalhar para estudar: sobre a pertinência da noção de transição escola-trabalho no Brasil
Novos Estudos CEBRAP, 2011
View articleBook Chapters
A Imaginação Quantitativa
In: Metodologia de Pesquisa em Sociologia. UFSCar, 2024
Religious Transition in Brazil
In: Paths of Inequality in Brazil. Springer, 2018
Labor Market, Income Inequalities and Poverty
In: São Paulo in the Twenty-First Century. Routledge, 2016
Software
Open-source R packages for social research.
mensalizePNADC
R PackageConvert Brazil's quarterly PNADC survey data into monthly time series. Achieves 96% determination rate using IBGE's technical rules and birthday constraints.
censobr
R PackageEasy access to Brazilian Population Census data. Download and work with census microdata directly in R.
With Rafael H.M. Pereira (IPEA)
tableInequality
R PackageCalculate inequality measures from categorical/tabulated data. Useful when only grouped data is available.
Teaching
Graduate Courses (IESP-UERJ)
Lego 1, 2, 3 - Quantitative Methods Sequence
Statistics, econometrics, and causal inference for social scientists.
Poverty: What, How Much, Where, How, and Why?
Theoretical and empirical approaches to poverty analysis.
Inequalities Across the Life Course
How inequalities accumulate and compound over individual lifetimes.
Unequal Controversies
Debates and methodological disputes in inequality research.
Short Courses & Workshops
Introduction to R
Programming fundamentals for social science research.
Web Scraping with R
Automated data collection from the internet.
Measuring Poverty and Inequality in Brazil
Concepts, methods, and data for contemporary Brazil.
Blog
I co-author Sociais & Métodos, a Portuguese-language blog on quantitative methods, R programming, and social science research methodology.
Contact
Office
Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Políticos (IESP-UERJ)
Rua da Matriz, 82
Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
22260-100, Brazil