Renan Pieri

Pesquisa

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  • Amaral Junior, J. B. C.; Pieri, R. G.; Sampaio, J.; Toda, M. K. B.; Souza, P. O. (2025). Análise do aumento da concorrência no mercado de aviação civil visando o bem-estar dos consumidores. Estudos Econômicos, 55(2), e53575521.
  • Amaral Junior, J. B. C.; Pieri, R. G.; Sampaio, J.; Andrade, J. M. A.; Toda, M. K. B.; Slavov, T. (2024). Análise empírica dos juros sobre capital próprio na estrutura de capital das empresas listadas na bolsa de valores. Revista de Direito Contábil Fiscal.
  • Pieri, R. G.; Santos, A. A. (2022). Avaliação econômica do Pacto Nacional pela Alfabetização na Idade Certa. Série Documental (INEP).
  • Arvate, P. R.; Firpo, S. P.; Pieri, R. G. (2021). Can women’s performance in elections determine the engagement of adolescent girls in politics? European Journal of Political Economy, 70, 102045.
  • Sampaio, J.; De-Losso, R.; Pieri, R. G.; Cunha, L. (2019). Does concern about local crime affect people’s trust in the police? Estudos Econômicos, 49(4), 661–686.
  • Chamon, M.; Firpo, S.; Mello, J. M. P.; Pieri, R. (2018). Electoral rules, political competition and fiscal expenditures: Regression discontinuity evidence from Brazilian municipalities. Journal of Development Studies, 55(1), 19–38.
  • Firpo, S. P.; Pieri, R. G. (2018). The labor market in Brazil, 2001–2015. IZA World of Labor, 441.
  • Arvate, P. R.; Firpo, S. P.; Pieri, R. G. (2017). Future electoral impacts of having a female mayor. Brazilian Political Science Review, 11(2), e0001.
  • Firpo, S. P.; Pieri, R. G.; Souza, A. P. (2017). Electoral impacts of uncovering public school quality: Evidence from Brazilian municipalities. EconomiA, 18(1), 1–17.
  • Firpo, S. P.; Carvalho, S.; Pieri, R. G. (2016). Using occupational structure to measure employability with an application to the Brazilian labor market. Journal of Economic Inequality, 14(1), 1–19.
  • Firpo, S. P.; Pieri, R. G.; Souza, A. P.; Pedroso, E. (2014). Evidence of eligibility manipulation for conditional cash transfer programs. EconomiA, 15(3), 243–260.
  • Pieri, R. G.; Santos, A. A. (2014). Uma proposta para o Índice de Infraestrutura Escolar e o Índice de Formação de Professores. INEP Discussion Paper 38.
  • Firpo, S. P.; Pieri, R. G. (2012). Avaliando os efeitos da introdução de computadores em escolas públicas brasileiras. Revista Brasileira de Inovação.

Book Chapters

  • Firpo, S. P.; Pieri, R. G.; Nogueira, R. (2022). “Inclusive Growth Without Structural Transformation? The Case of Brazil.” In The Developer’s Dilemma: Structural Transformation, Inequality Dynamics, and Inclusive Growth. Oxford University Press.
  • Firpo, S. P.; Pieri, R. G. (2017). “Structural Change, Productivity Growth and Trade Policy in Brazil.” In Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth: A Framework and Case Studies. IFPRI.

Working Papers and Research in Progress

  • Pieri, R. (2026). When school consolidation fails: Rural closures, labor supply, and crime in Brazil. Single-authored. Under revision for submission to a high-circulation economics journal. Estimates the causal effects of rural school closures in Brazil (1997–2023) using the doubly-robust staggered difference-in-differences estimator of Callaway and Sant’Anna (2021) on a panel of 1,579 treated and 132 never-treated municipalities. Identifies population decline, contraction of agricultural GDP, a 25-percentage-point enrollment gap, reallocation of agricultural production away from labor-intensive crops, a female-specific contraction of agricultural labor supply, and a rise in homicides concentrated among young men aged 15–29.
  • Pieri, R. G.; Hakak, L. Cash and Control: The Impact of Increasing Conditional Cash Benefit Amounts on Women’s Empowerment. Working paper in preparation. Examines the effects of recent increases in Bolsa Família benefit amounts on female labor supply and intra-household bargaining.
  • Pieri, R. G.; Teixeira, L. I. Educational Incentives and Financial Inclusion: Evidence from Brazil’s Pé-de-Meia Program. Project in progress. Evaluates the effects of Brazil’s federal financial-incentive program for secondary school students on educational outcomes and financial inclusion indicators.
  • Pieri, R. G.; Dotta, M. Weathering the Storm: Climate Change and Its Effects on School Operations in Brazil. Work in progress.
  • Pieri, R. G.; Sampaio, J.; Toda, M. Evaluation of the effects of financial education in Brazilian schools: what do we know about what works? Systematic review and impact evaluation in preparation.