Economist | Álvaro Robério
I'm Álvaro Robério, PhD student in Applied Economics at the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Brazil.
My research focuses on the effect of economic shocks on Health, Education, Crime, and the Labor Market. Other topics of interest include the impacts of Climate Change in underdeveloped areas and the Evaluation of Public Policies in Brazil.
I can be contacted at alvaro.roberiosa@gmail.com.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Applied Microeconomics
Health Economics
Development Economics
Economic Geography
ASSOCIATE RESEARCHER
Núcleo de Economia Aplicada ao Semiárido (NEASA - UFRPE)
Grupo de Pesquisa em Economia Aplicada (GPEA - UFRPE)
Laboratório de Análises Territoriais e Setoriais (LATES - UFJF)
Research Papers
Geopolitical Risks and their Impacts on Brazil’s Macroeconomic Performance
Revista de Economia Contemporânea, Under Review 2024
With Luziane Gomes, Sergiany Lima, and Felipe Luiz
Vulnerability to droughts and determinants of diversification of temporary crops in Northeast Brazil: a quantile regression analysis
Revista Econômica do Nordeste, Accepted 2024
With Luziane Gomes
Carbon emissions, disaggregated energy consumption, and economic growth in brazil: a causality analysis
Revista Econômica do Nordeste, Accepted 2024
With Luziane Gomes
Other publications
Convergence and determinants of carbon emissions in Brazilian agriculture
Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais, 2025
With Luziane Gomes
Social fund and infant mortality: evidence from an anti-poverty policy in Northeast Brazil
Health Economics, 2024
With Danyelle Branco
Economic vulnerability and its effects on conditional convergence clubs in the semi-arid region of Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil
Paper in Regional Science, 2024
With Sergiany Lima and Felipe Luiz
When climate changes, so does violence: examining the link between weather and crime in Pernambuco-Northeast, Brazil
Climate Change Economics, 2024
With Luziane Gomes
Drivers of employment change in Brazil in sectors by technological intensity: a structural decomposition analysis
Revista Nova Economia, 2024
With Flaviane Santiago and Luziane Gomes
Work in Progress
Droughts and agricultural productivity in the Brazilian Northeast
Book
Desenvolvimento Socioeconômico do Semiárido Brasileiro
Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
Faculdade de Economia - Campus Universitário
Bairro Martelos, Juiz de Fora, Brazil, 36036-330
Contact Information
Souza Sá, Álvaro Robério
Economist - Corecon-PE n.º 5278
Email: alvaro.roberiosa@gmail.com
CV (ID Lattes): 9444367216262237
Orcid: 0000-0001-6929-1449
