Determinants and socioeconomic consequences of reproductive behavior during public health crises
Aim: Research partnership between the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), and the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn). The team colaborate in the research Demographic Consequences of Zika and Covid (DZC), coordinated by Prof. Letícia Marteletto at UPenn.
Funding: CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico)
Period: 2024-2026
Using big data to evaluate the effectiveness of non-pharmacological interventions in coping with epidemics and their economic impacts
Aim: Research partnership with the Ministry of Health (Brazil) and the University of Texas - Austin (U.S.). The project uses big data to evaluate the impacts of social isolation on the spread of COVID-19 epidemics and on the econmy in Brazil
Funding: CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico)
Period: 2020-2020
Poverty measurement in Brazil: a multidimensional approach
Aim: Research partnership with the Ministry of Citizenship (Brazil) and the University of Leeds (U.K.). The project develops a multidimensional poverty indicator to subsidize social policies in Brazil
Funding: CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico)
Period: 2020-2020
Evaluation of a climate resilience program for family famers in the semi-arid region
Aim:evaluation Evaluation of the economic impacts of a productive system for family farming in the Brazilian semiarida region.
Funding: CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico)
Period: 2017-2019
Simultaneous and interrelated approach of the sustainability dimensions for the improvement of the management of water resources: the case of the Jundiaí River basin
Aim: (i) to investigate social, economic and environmental aspects related to the sustainable consumption of water resources; and (ii) to propose a system of water management in the region.
Funding: CAPES (Comissão de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior)
Period: 2016-2020
Economic Development, Migration and Inequality in Brazil
Aim: i) analyze the historical process of regional development and internal migration in Brazil; ii) to access the impacts of rural out-migration on rural socioeconomic development;
Funding: CAPES (Comissão de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior)
Period: 2018-2018
A climate risk assessment tool for financial institutions
Aim: (i) identify and quantify farmers exposure to climate risks and ii) implement measures to reduce this exposure. To achieve this, intermediate objectives are to i) analyze the correlation between climatic indicators and both production and financial indicators, and ii) develop a model for the appraisal of investments with the capacity to mitigate in productive and financial terms the aforementioned exposure.
Funding: IDB (Interamerican Development Bank)
Period: 2017-2018
The new drivers of the rural exodus in Brazil and the impacts on the labor market inequalities: the interrelation between environmental, social and economic factors
Aim: to analyze the interrelation between the dynamics of the rural population, environmental vulnerability and socioeconomic inequalities. It analyzes the contribution of social, economic and environmental variables as drivers of the new trends of rural migration in the Brazilian territory, as well as the consequent impacts of this rural exodus on the labor market inequalities.
Funding: FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo)
Period: 2015-2017