Ieda Matavelli

PhD @ubcVSE
Postdoc @unsw

[Mayara Felix @mayara_pfs]

Can pay transparency close gender wage gaps in developing countries?

Brazil became the first developing country to enact a large-scale pay transparency law in 2023. With @tadeuccastro , @iedarm , @bph_econ , we collaborated with Brazil's @MinPlanejamento to estimate the policy's effects thus far using a regression discontinuity design.

The answer: So far, no. We find precise null effects on every outcome. A thread.

[Mayara Felix @mayara_pfs]

What do workers at the margin of informality value at work?

We surveyed 700 residents of Brazil's largest favela complex to find out, using open-ended questions and discrete choice experiments. Joint work with Beatriz Marcoje, @iedarm, and @rodmclara.

Here's what we learned. A thread 👇:

[Mayara Felix @mayara_pfs]

Does import competition increase surviving firms' wage-setting power? In more exposed labor markets, yes — but markdowns explain only 6% of the relative wage decline. A thread on NBER WP "Trade, Labor Market Concentration, and Wages" 🧵👇

[Yale Department of Economics @YaleEconomics]

"I estimate the effect of trade on local labor market concentration and its implications for wages using employer-employee linked data and tariff shocks from Brazil’s trade liberalization."

NEW in @nberpubs by @mayara_pfs: https://t.co/uNsvER1BF3

[Vinícius Peçanha @viniciuspecanha]

Divulgando essa oportunidade de trabalhar com economia do crime no Leme, instituto criado pela Joana Monteiro, Julia Guerra e Laura e Schiavon.

Sao 5 vagas de RA pra trabalhar em projetos de seguranca publica no rio de janeiro e no ceara.
https://t.co/QW9ZDzv2mE

[Ieda Matavelli @iedarm]

We are hiring a 2-year postdoc at UNSW (Sydney)!!!

Come work with us on masculinity norms! @ralphdehaas @VictoriaBaranov Pauline Grosjean

Great environment, city, and colleagues!

Apply here: https://t.co/hyE5WcLlCQ

[UBC Economics @ubcVSE]

#EconJobMarket candidate Bernardo B. Ribeiro's (@bbribeiro_22) job market paper examines how public housing affects intergenerational mobility, drawing evidence from a large-scale program in Brazil.
Profile: https://t.co/8397EU1hud

[UBC Economics @ubcVSE]

#EconJobMarket candidate Sara Benetti’s job market paper studies the impact of early U.S. electrification on social cohesion between immigrant and native workers. Profile: https://t.co/hYWIE7eEIB; Job Market Paper: https://t.co/FawWzX83Ou

[Federico Masera @masera_federico]

We are hiring! Email me if you have questions.

[Claudio Ferraz @claudferraz]

We are hiring at @ubcVSE two assistant professors. Focus on international trade/spatial and applied micro (dev, labor, env, etc). Fantastic department, great city, democratic country. Please apply! https://t.co/2iYBwVmsYH

[UBC Economics @ubcVSE]

#EconJobMarket candidate Vibhu Pratyush's job market paper studies the effect of land ownership on intergenerational mobility in rural agrarian India. Profile: https://t.co/BwAjunHufJ

[UBC Economics @ubcVSE]

#EconJobMarket candidate Igor Carreira’s (@igoraacarreira) job market paper explores how IMF-style conditionality shapes long-run reserve accumulation under sovereign default risk. Profile: https://t.co/r79p9qKmbX

[UBC Economics @ubcVSE]

#EconJobMarket candidate Spreeha Aggarwal’s (@AggarwalSpreeha) job market paper studies how changes in the demand for women’s domestic labour affect their marriage timing and outcomes in rural India. Profile: https://t.co/I3eYVxOaHV

[UBC Economics @ubcVSE]

Meet the Vancouver School of Economics’ 2025/26 PhD job market candidates! View their profiles here: https://t.co/OGe9A9ZeH1 @bbribeiro_22

[Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas]

🆕VoxEU column: "Masculinity norms and their economic consequences"

\w @VictoriaBaranov, @iedarm, Pauline Grosjean @EBRD @EBRDgender

https://t.co/Ow9tBU4zQ0 via @cepr_org

[Rigissa Megalokonomou @rmegal]

Job Alert! Come and join my team!

I am looking for a cool person with a background in economics to join my research team as a postdoctoral fellow for 3 years at Monash Business School (Department of Economics) and Monash University.

https://t.co/Vq77FZ2SS5

[Ursula Mello @ursulammello]

Venha trabalhar conosco!

[Duncan Webb @dunc_webb]

Come and work with me in lovely Lisbon! I’m hiring a full-time predoc research associate to work on exciting projects on discrimination, AI and health, and social media use in LMICs. Please share and apply! (Link in next tweet)

#econra #econtwitter #econsky

[Ieda Matavelli @iedarm]

Venham trabalhar com a gente! 👇🏼

[Mayara Felix @mayara_pfs]

Brasileiro(a)s economist(a)s e/ou formados em áreas relacionadas: Estamos procurando alguém para trabalhar conosco num projeto em parceria com o governo federal, em Brasília. Salário R$9k - R$10k. Podem divulgar o job posting? @iedarm , @bph_econ.

[Joachim Voth @joachim_voth]

this is a very important study: https://t.co/uPC4w7roJ6 riskier grant applications are less often funded. we have institutionalized a ton of risk-avoiding in science; slowdown of progress has coincided with peer review + big science by committee. @pierre_azoulay