

Breno Sampaio
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Breno Sampaio is an Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco/UFPE, and Director of the Group for the Economic Evaluation of Public Policies (GAPPE.org). He is a Research Fellow at IZA, a Research Fellow at CLEAN Unit on the Economic Analysis of Crime - Baffi-Carefin Centre, Bocconi University and an Invited Researcher at J-PAL.
He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign/UIUC (2011). His research interests include economics of crime, labor economics, health economics and development economics
Recent work by Breno Sampaio
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The impacts of parental job loss and job insurance policies on children: Evidence from Brazil
Parental job loss has significant negative effects on children, which can be partly mitigated by access to unemployment insurance
Published 17.02.23
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Job losses, unemployment benefits and domestic violence: Evidence from Brazil
Job losses, through reduced income and increased exposure, lead to substantial increases in domestic violence against women which are not mitigated by unemployment benefits
Published 02.02.23
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Job loss and crime in Brazil
After mass layoffs criminal prosecutions increase for displaced workers, but eligibility for unemployment benefits offsets this effect
Published 15.09.22