Teaching

• MATLAB for Economists, taught in the postgraduate program in economics at the Federal University of Ceará in 2022 (in Portuguese)
• Statistics, taught in the undergraduate program in economics at the Federal University of Ceará in 2020 (in Portuguese)
• Economics of the Public Sector, taught in the undergraduate program in economics at the Federal University of Ceará in 2020 (in Portuguese)
• Lecture Notes: Introduction to Econometrics (in Portuguese)

Selected Presentations and Talks

• Efficiency in Perspective: A Comparative Study of Hospital Management Models in Ceará, presented at the National Symposium of Health Economics Centers, organized by the Brazilian Ministry of Health, in Brasília, Brazil, on May 20–21, 2026 (in Portuguese)
• Economic Conjuncture and Public Finance, presented at R. Saldanha Advocacia Corporativa on March 16, 2022 (in Portuguese)
• Political discussion and prospects for Ceará’s economy in 2022 (part 1, part 2), interview for Jornal Alerta Geral on January 3, 2022 (in Portuguese)
• Socioeconomic Status of Ceará’s Municipalities, presented to Podemos Political Party on November 20, 2019 (in Portuguese)

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Nice Databases

: A selection of useful data sources for research and exploration.

International

• BIS — Data Portal
• CEPALSTAT — Latin America and the Caribbean Statistics
• Economic Policy Uncertainty
• Eurostat — European Statistics
• FAOSTAT — Food and Agriculture Data
• FRED — Federal Reserve Economic Data
• Harvard Dataverse — Research Data Repository
• ILOSTAT — Labour Statistics
• IMF — Data Portal
• OECD — Data Explorer
• Our World in Data
• The Heritage Foundation – Index of Economic Freedom
• UN Comtrade — International Trade Statistics
• UNDP — Human Development Data Center
• WHO — Global Health Observatory
• World Bank — Informal Economy Database
• World Bank — Microdata Library
• World Bank — World Development Indicators
• World Inequality Database
• World Justice Project — Rule of Law Index: Regulatory Enforcement

Brazil

• Central Bank of Brazil — Economic and Financial Statistics
• Comex Stat — Brazilian Foreign Trade Data
• CGU — Administrative Disciplinary Proceedings
• DATASUS — Health Statistics and TABNET
• IBGE — SIDRA Statistical Database
• INEP — Education Microdata
• Ipeadata — Economic, Regional and Social Data
• National Treasury — Siconfi/Finbra Public Finance Data
• Ministry of Labour and Employment — RAIS and Caged Microdata
• TSE — Electoral Open Data

Nice Websites

: A selection of websites for learning economics, exploring quantitative methods, and keeping up with the field.

Learning Economics

• CORE Econ — Economics Textbooks and Learning Resources
• EconGraphs — Interactive Economic Models and Explanations
• MIT OpenCourseWare — Economics

Research and Commentary

• Blog do IBRE — Brazilian Economy and Public Policy
• INOMICS — Economics Resources and Academic Opportunities
• NBER — The Digest
• VoxEU — Economic Research and Policy Analysis

Econometrics and Quantitative Methods

• Causal Inference: The Remix — Scott Cunningham
• Hands-On Machine Learning with R
• QuantEcon — Quantitative Economics with Python and Julia
• The Effect — Research Design and Causality