I am a PhD candidate in Economics at Southern Methodist University, on the 2026–2027 job market. I hold a master's degree in Economics from PIMES–UFPE and a bachelor's degree in Economics from UDESC.
I am an applied econometrician working on the economics of education and health, with a secondary interest in labor markets. My research uses quasi-experimental methods to study how early-life and school-based interventions shape children's long-run cognitive and socioemotional outcomes.
Mobile Internet and the Composition of Parental Time
My job market paper studies how mobile internet changed the time parents spend with their children. Exploiting the staggered rollout of 3G and 4G coverage across US metropolitan areas and time diaries from the American Time Use Survey, I find that near-universal coverage raises childcare by 42 minutes per day, about 10 percent. Parents create this time without giving up leisure or household work; instead, they increasingly do these activities with their children present.
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