Rodrigo Oliveira

Research Associate

Rodrigo Oliveira is a Research Associate at UNU-WIDER working on tax-benefit microsimulation models. His research interests are development economics and applied economics, focusing on education, health, poverty, and inequality. 

He is on a leave of absence from his previous appointment as an economics professor at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) - Brazil. He has also worked as a research associate at Cidacs and CLEAR - FGV and as Coordinator of the Laboratory of Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Policies (LAPPE) at UFBA.

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Phone +358-(0)9-615 9911

Email oliveira@wider.unu.edu

Twitter rod_coliveira

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Working Paper
Who benefits from job training programmes?: Evidence from a high-dosage programme in Brazil

Using admission lotteries and registry data linking labour market outcomes, we study the effect of a vocational training programme focused on disadvantaged individuals in Brazil...

Training Employment Entrepreneurship
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Re-examining the Brazilian South–Northeast labour income gap: A decomposition approach

The purpose of this article is to provide new evidence about the sources of regional income inequalities in Brazil along the wage distribution, taking into account the regional differentials in purchasing power...

Brazil Income inequality Decomposition
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The effect of class assignment on academic performance and the labour market: Evidence from a public federal university in Brazil

Can students’ rank in the ability distribution of their class impact their academic achievement?...

Affirmative action Brazil Education
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