Publications

• Drought-Reliefs and Partisanship Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2024, Vol. 86, p. 187-208. (with Boffa, Federico & Piolatto, Amedeo & Fons-Rosen, Christian)
  • Voxeu: New insights on distributive politics from a new way to measure aridity
  • GitHub repository
• Popularity shocks and political selection Journal of Public Economics, 2018 , Vol. 165 p. 201-216. (with Daniele, Gianmarco & Galletta, Sergio )

Working papers

• Climate Change, Droughts, and Agricultural Productivity (with Helfand, Steven & Moreira, Ajax)

• Natural Disasters Support Authoritarian Populism: Evidence From the Brazilian Shrimp Vote 2022 Available at SSRN 4249006 (with Baerlocher, Diogo & Caldas, Renata & Schneider, Rodrigo)

• Ignorance is bliss: voter education and alignment in distributive politics 2021 IEB Working Paper 2021/07 Institut d’Economia de Barcelona (with Boffa, Federico & Piolatto, Amedeo)

• Voters sometimes provide the wrong incentives. The lesson of the Brazilian drought industry 2018

• Creative Class, Human Capital and Urban Dynamism: Empirical Evidence for the Brazilian Cities 2016 Anais do XLII Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 42nd Brazilian Economics Meeting], No. 160 (with & Silveira-Neto, Raul da Mota)

Work in progress

• The Impact of Landslides on the Urbanization Patterns of Brazilian Cities (with Carvalho, Ricardo & Alves, Pedro)

• Education and Job Security in Times of Crisis: A Study on the Differential Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil (with Didier, Fredie & Gonzaga, Gustavo)

• Mobile broadband expansion and tasks: Evidence from Brazilian formal labor markets (with Mota, Henrique & Gonzaga, Gustavo)

• Drought and Corruption

Technical reports and other publications

• Cavalcanti, Francisco & Gonzaga, Gustavo Desigualdades no Mercado de Trabalho por Raça: Evidências para a Amazônia Legal 2022-06 Projeto Amazônia 2030 , No. 42 p. 42

• Cavalcanti, Francisco & Gonzaga, Gustavo Desigualdades no Mercado de Trabalho por Gênero: Evidências para a Amazônia Legal 2022-04 Projeto Amazônia 2030 , No. 36 p. 42

• Alfenas, Flávia & Cavalcanti, Francisco & Gonzaga, Gustavo Dinamismo de Emprego e Renda na Amazônia Legal: Ocupações Qualificadas e de Liderança 2021-08 Projeto Amazônia 2030 n. 15

• Alfenas, Flávia & Cavalcanti, Francisco & Gonzaga, Gustavo Dinamismo de Emprego e Renda na Amazônia Legal: Setor Serviços 2021-08 Projeto Amazônia 2030 n. 14

• Alfenas, Flávia & Cavalcanti, Francisco & Gonzaga, Gustavo Dinamismo de Emprego e Renda na Amazônia Legal: Setor Público 2021-08 Projeto Amazônia 2030 n. 13

• Alfenas, Flávia & Cavalcanti, Francisco & Gonzaga, Gustavo Dinamismo de Emprego e Renda na Amazônia Legal: Agropecuária 2021-08 Projeto Amazônia 2030 n. 10

• Alfenas, Flávia & Cavalcanti, Francisco & Gonzaga, Gustavo Mercado de trabalho na Amazônia Legal: Uma análise comparativa com o resto do Brasil 2020-11 Projeto Amazônia 2030 p. 68