Sergio Firpo

Research Fellow

Insper, São Paulo

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Sergio Firpo is Instituto Unibanco Professor of Economics at Insper in São Paulo, Brazil. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 2003. He was an assistant professor of economics at the University of British Columbia, (2003–06) and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2004–08), and an associate professor at the Sao Paulo School of Economics (2008–15) before joining Insper in January 2016.

His main research interests are microeconometrics, policy evaluation, labor economics, development economics and empirical political economy.

His works have appeared at many peer-reviewed journals and books, including Econometrica, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Human Resources, and Handbook of Labor Economics. Firpo is an Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and the Center for Evaluation and Development (C4ED). He has served as the Editor of the Brazilian Review of Econometrics and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Business Economics and Statistics, and of the Journal of Econometric Methods.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 2009.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13176
Loss Aversion and the Welfare Ranking of Policy Interventions
Sergio Firpo, Antonio F. Galvao, Martyna Kobus, Thomas Parker, Pedro Rosa-Dias
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10656
Ageing Poorly? Accounting for the Decline in Earnings Inequality in Brazil, 1995-2012
Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Sergio Firpo, Julián Messina
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36 (1), 37-67
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10473
Estimation and Inference for Actual and Counterfactual Growth Incidence Curves
Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Sergio Firpo, Antonio F. Galvao
published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34, 385-402
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8476
Private Education Market, Information on Test Scores and Tuition Practices
Sergio Firpo, Vladimir Ponczek, Vítor Augusto Possebom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7941
Information, Market Incentives, and Student Performance
Braz Camargo, Rafael Camelo, Sergio Firpo, Vladimir Ponczek
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53(2), 414-444
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7918
The Relationship between Federal Budget Amendments and Local Electoral Power
Sergio Firpo, Vladimir Ponczek, Viviane Sanfelice
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 116, 186-198
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7564
Semiparametric Estimation and Inference Using Doubly Robust Moment Conditions
Christoph Rothe, Sergio Firpo
published in: Econometric Theory, 2019, 35 (5), 1048-1087
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6524
Electoral Impacts of Uncovering Public School Quality: Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
Sergio Firpo, Renan Pieri, André Portela Souza
published in: EconomiA., 2017, 18 (1), 1-17
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5542
Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure
Sergio Firpo, Nicole M. Fortin, Thomas Lemieux
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4841
Identification and Estimation of Distributional Impacts of Interventions Using Changes in Inequality Measures
Sergio Firpo
published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31(3), 457-486
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