Rodrigo Reis Soares is an economist specializing in

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. He is

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Professor of Brazilian Public Policy and International and Public Affairs at

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and the Lemann Foundation Chair at Insper.

Biography

Soares received his B.A. from the

Federal University of Minas Gerais The Federal University of Minas Gerais ( pt, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, UFMG) is a federalIn the Brazilian Higher Education context, ''Federal'' does not mean ''collegiate'' (even though most Federal Universities in Brazil enjoy a sim ...

, M.A. from the

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, and Ph.D. from the

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under the guidance of

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. Soares taught at the

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Mary ...

Harvard School of Public Health The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. The school grew out of the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers, the nation's first ...

, and São Paulo School of Economics before joining the Columbia faculty in 2016. He was also named Lemann Foundation Chair at Insper in 2020. Soares has written about health economics and the economics of crime, domestic violence, labor, and the effect of history and institutions on development. He argued that different structures of colonial rule that characterized Brazil's sugarcane and gold mining industries had lasting influence on the strength and weakness of institutions and perceivable social inequities in present-day Brazil. He was elected a fellow of the

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in 2020. Soares was awarded the Kenneth J. Arrow Award from the International Health Economics Association for the best paper published in the field of health economics.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Soares, Rodrigo R. Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Brazilian economists Columbia University faculty Fellows of the Econometric Society Federal University of Minas Gerais alumni Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro alumni University of Chicago alumni University of Maryland, College Park faculty Harvard School of Public Health faculty Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo faculty Health economists Labor economists