Rodrigo Soares

Focus areas: Development economics, ranging from labor, human capital, and demographic economics to institutions and crime

Rodrigo R. Soares  is Lemann Professor of Brazilian Public Policy and International and Public Affairs. Professor Soares’ research centers on development economics, ranging from labor, human capital, and demographic economics, to crime. His work has appeared in various scientific journals, including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Development Economics, among various others. Before joining Columbia, Soares taught at the Sao Paulo School of Economics-FGV, PUC-Rio, the University of Maryland, and the Harvard School of Public Health.

In 2006, he was awarded the Kenneth J. Arrow Award from the International Health Economics Association for the best paper published in the field of Health Economics. Soares is research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Germany), research affiliate at J-PAL Latin America, and associate editor of the Journal of Human Capital, of the Journal of Demographic Economics, and of the IZA Journal of Labor & Development. He has acted as consultant for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and state governments in Brazil on issues related to crime and violence, health, and development. He received his PhD in Economics under the guidance of Gary S. Becker at the University of Chicago in 2002.

Please visit his personal website here.

Education

• PhD,  University of Chicago
• MA, PUC-Rio, Brazil 
• BA, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Honors & Awards

• Guest Editor for the Special Issue of the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization on the 50 years of the Economics of Crime
• Committee Member for the International Health Economics Association Kenneth J. Arrow Award
• Mário Henrique Simonsen Lecture at the 25th Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society
• Kenneth J. Arrow Award for Best Health Economics Paper Published in 2005 (International Health Economics Association)
• Brazilian National Award for Best Ph.D. Dissertation in Economics (Prêmio Haralambos Simeonidis Tese – ANPEC 2003)