Breno Sampaio

Breno Sampaio is Associate Professor of Economics at the Federal University of Pernambuco/UFPE in Brazil. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign/UIUC. His main research interests include labor economics, education economics, crime and health economics and development economics. 

Breno has published in several important academic journals, such as Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Labor Economics, Management Science, Journal of Public Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Health Economics, among others. 

He has been awarded the CAPES Thesis Award in 2018 and in 2024, for having supervised the best doctoral thesis in economic sciences in Brazil, the 2022 Haralambos Simeonidis Award, given annually to the authors of the best article published by a Brazilian, and taught the 2022 Mario Henrique Simonsen Memorial Lecture, an honor given annually by the Econometric Society to two of the most promising economists in Latin America under the age of 40.

As a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, he is currently engaged in the following UNU-WIDER projects: Climate change, poverty, and inequality – impacts and resilience strategies, and Inequality over the life course.