Rodrigo Oliveira

Research Associate

Rodrigo is a Research Associate at UNU-WIDER, and his research interests are Development Economics, Economics of Education, and Labor Economics.

His leading research focuses on the impact of education on a wide range of outcomes and uses different methods. During his Ph.D., he studied how education and labor market structure explain the evolution of Brazil's regional inequality between 1970 and 2010. After the Ph.D., his research focused on the impact of vocational training, affirmative action policies, and evaluating other educational or labor policies. Recently he started projects involving tax-and-benefit microsimulation methods in selected African countries and the long-run impacts of socio-economic shocks.  

He also has at least five years of experience leading research teams in Brazilian Universities, one year of experience leading a research team in the Brazilian private sector. Currently, he coordinates research and technical assistance activities in Mozambique and Tanzania in collaboration with UNU-WIDER colleagues and leads the UNU-WIDER seminar series.

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Phone +358-(0)9-615 9911

Email oliveira@wider.unu.edu

Twitter rod_coliveira

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    Report
    SOUTHMOD country report Tanzania - TAZMOD v2.8

    This report documents TAZMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Tanzania Mainland. It describes the different tax–benefit policies in place, how the microsimulation model picks up these different provisions, and the database on which the model runs...

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    SOUTHMOD country report Mozambique - MOZMOD v2.10

    This report documents MOZMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Mozambique. It describes the different tax-benefit policies in place, how the microsimulation model picks up these different provisions, and the database on which the model runs. It...

    Working Paper
    The impacts of studying abroad

    This paper investigates the impact of the Science without Borders ( Ciência sem Fronteiras – CSF) programme on participants’ post-graduation enrolment, employment, and entrepreneurship. The programme was launched in 2011 to increase students’ human...

    Working Paper
    The role of social protection and tax policies in cushioning crisis impacts on income and poverty in low- and middle-income countries

    In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, several countries enacted tax and social protection measures to help mitigate the economic hardship faced by individuals and households. This experience underscores the need to better understand the impact of...

    Presentation
    UNU-WIDER at the 44th meeting of the Brazilian Econometric Society

    On 6-9 December 2022, UNU-WIDER joins the 44th meeting of the Brazilian Econometric Society (SBE). On Thursday 8 December, the programme includes a special session on ‘Inequality and development’ featuring recent research from UNU-WIDER's WIID and...

    6 December 2022 – 9 December 2022
    Gran Mareiro Hotel, Fortaleza, Brazil
    Past event
    Blog
    Teamwork and capacity strengthening to promote development: The case of Mozambique

    Designing and implementing public policies requires caution to guarantee the best use of scarce resources, especially in middle- and lower-income...

    Working Paper
    The unintended long-run impacts of agro-terrorism in Brazil

    This paper studies the unintended long-run effects of a permanent agricultural shock led by agro-terrorism in Brazil on the education and labour market. We explore the witches' broom outbreak in cocoa farms in the world's second most important cocoa...

    Report
    SOUTHMOD country report Tanzania - TAZMOD v2.5

    View the latest TAZMOD country report here . This report documents TAZMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Tanzania. It describes the different tax–benefit policies in place, how the microsimulation model picks up these different provisions, and the...

    Report
    SOUTHMOD country report Mozambique - MOZMOD v2.9

    View the latest MOZMOD country report here . This report documents MOZMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Mozambique. It describes the different tax-benefit policies in place, how the microsimulation model picks up these different provisions, and...

    Working Paper
    Affirmative action with no major switching

    Affirmative action in higher education may lead to mismatch, a situation where students benefiting from preferential admission struggle with their college-level work because of poor pre-college academic preparation. In the United States, those...

    Policy Brief
    O papel das políticas de impostos e benefícios durante a pandemia da COVID-19 em 2020 em Moçambique
    Blog
    The pandemic and Africa's social safety net

    The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that African tax and social-benefit systems are currently ill-equipped to protect households from sudden income losses...

    Blog
    Efforts to protect the poor during COVID: How five African countries fared

    The number of people living in poverty around the world is estimated to have increased by half a billion people due to the COVID-19 crisis. The...

    Presentation
    SOUTHMOD work presented at the Mozambique Social Protection Week

    The Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Action ( MGCAS ) organises a Social Protection theme week in Mozambique 11-15 October 2021. During the week, on 15 October, The Mozambican Ministry of Economy and Finance ( MEF ) with Internation Labour...

    15 October 2021
    Radisson Blu, Mozambique
    Past event
    Policy Brief
    Limited impact of the tax-benefit system in Tanzania during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020
    Policy Brief
    The role of tax-benefit policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 in Mozambique
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