Cidade De Deus Redux: Inequality, Migration and Violent Crime in Brazil between 1980 and 2000

I recently finished a first draft of my paper "Cidade de Deus Redux: Inequality, Migration and Violent Crime in Brazil between 1980 and 2000". It is available on SSRN (just follow the link). Feel free to send any comment or question you may have.

Using Wikipedia to enhance student learning in Economics

I have finished a first draft of my joint work with Li JingPing on "Using Wikipedia to enhance student learning in Economics". I had the opportunity to present this paper at the Development in Economics Education conference in Exeter, UK, organized by the Higher Education Academy in the UK.

This presentation also lead to a follow up in The Economics Network newsletter where I talked about our conference and my research on economics education.

European Economic Association Conference, European Regional Science Association Conference, European Association of Labour Economists and Portuguese Economic Journal Meetings

During this summer I had the opportunity to present my joint work with Xiaoye Li - "How immigration reduced social capital in the U.S.:2005-2011" at the European Economic Association Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden; the European Regional Science Association Conference in Palermo, Italy; the European Association of Labour Economics Conference in Turin, Italy and the Portuguese Economic Journal Meeting in Covilhã, Portugal.

Thank you to all the participants in these meetings for their comments. We are currently revising the article and be uploading and submitting a new version of this paper soon.