Gabriel is an Associate Professor and Director of the PhD Program in the
Department of Economics at University College London, with research
affiliations at IFS, RFBerlin, IZA, CEPR, and BREAD. He earned his BA at
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and a PhD in Economics from the
University of Chicago, with an early academic position at PUC-Rio. His
research is in labor and development economics, with particular focus on
informality, the labor-market effects of regulations and trade, and the
role of firms in economic development — primarily in Brazil. He and
Christopher are coauthors on the
QJE small-firms-and-the-pandemic study in Latin America
and on the
Journal of Public Economics paper on information frictions in the
Paycheck Protection Program.
