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PhD in Economics

• Fields of interest: development economics, economic history, innovation
• Committee: Christopher Udry (Co-Chair), Joel Mokyr (Co-Chair), Jacopo Ponticelli
• Dissertation: 'Technological Change and Economic Development' [PDF]

Master of Science in Economics

• Major in Development and Trade
• Master's Thesis: 'Beware of the Mine! The Political Economy of Mines in Northern Mozambique' [PDF]

Bachelor of Science in Economics and Management

Exchange Program: Erasmus+

Research assistant to Prof. Dean Karlan

Teaching Assistant

• Economic Development in Africa (Winter 2024)
• Economics of State and Local Governments (Fall 2023)
• [Teaching evaluations ]

Research assistant to Prof. Christopher Udry

Research assistant to Prof. Erika Deserranno

Research assistant

• Agricultural Adaptations and Natural Resource Management portfolio

Teaching assistant

• Intermediate Macroeconomics (Spring and Fall 2017)
• Development Economics (Fall 2016)

Short term consultant

• Project: 'Testing Classic Theories of Migration in the Lab'
• Principal Investigators (PIs): Prof. Cátia Batista and David McKenzie

Fund Internship Program

Field research intern

• Project: 'On the Mechanics of the Natural Resource Curse: Information and Local Elite Behavior in Mozambique'
• PIs: Prof. Alex Armand, Prof. Alexander Coutts, Prof. Pedro C. Vicente, and Inês Vilela

Intern

• EIEF Grant, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance   [Announcement ]
• Honorable mention at the 15th European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association

• Econ JM Best Paper Award, UniCredit Foundation   [Announcement ]
• Graduate Student Visitor Program, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
• International Conference Travel Grant, Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
• Dissertation Fellowship, Northwestern University

• Early Career Scholars Grant, Policy Impacts   [Announcement ]
• Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Economics, Northwestern University   [PhD Spotlight ]
• Graduate Research Grant, Graduate School at Northwestern University
• Conference Travel Grant, Graduate School at Northwestern University
• Conference Travel Grant, Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
• Exploratory Travel and Piloting Grant, Weiss Fund for Research in Development Economics at the University of Chicago

• Susan Schmidt Bies Prize for Doctoral Student Research on Economics and Public Policy, best third-year PhD student research papers on topics relevant to analysis of economic policy, Northwestern University

• Marco Fanno Scholarship, UniCredit Foundation

• Erasmus+ grant, European Commission