Pedro is a Professor of Economics at University College London and an economist in the IFS' Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap). His research interests include development economics, labour economics, the economics of education and microeconometrics. In the past he has examined issues such as the returns to education, human capital policy, and labor regulation in developing countries. He has studied poverty and education programs in several countries in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe.
Education
PhD Economics, University of Chicago, 2003
MA Economics, University of Chicago, 1998
Licenciatura Economics, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 1997
This paper presents new evidence that increases in college enrollment lead to a decline in the average quality of college graduates between 1960 and 2000, resulting in a decrease of 6 percentage points in the college premium.
This paper extends the method of local instrumental variables developed by Heckman and Vytlacil (1999, 2001, 2005) to the estimation of not only means, but also distributions of potential outcomes.
This paper extends the method of local instrumental variables developed by Heckman and Vytlacil to the estimation of not only means, but also distributions of potential outcomes.
