Rodrigo Soares
Executive Committee
Description
Rodrigo R. Soares is Vice President of Academic Affairs and Lemann Foundation Professor of Economics at Insper, Brazil. Before joining Insper, Rodrigo was a professor at Columbia University and the Sao Paulo School of Economics-FGV, an associate professor at PUC-Rio, and an assistant professor at the University of Maryland-College Park. His research ranges from health and demographic economics to crime and labor. It has appeared in various scientific journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, and American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
Rodrigo is an Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and an Honorary Member of LACEA. Rodrigo is a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Germany), a fellow at the Global Labor Organization, a research affiliate at J-PAL Latin America, and an associate editor of the Journal of Human Capital, of the Journal of Demographic Economics, and of the IZA Journal of Development & Migration. Rodrigo has acted as a 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.
Rodrigo has been an active member of LACEA during the last 20 years. He is currently in his second term as a member of the Executive Committee, after having served a first term between 2012 and 2015. For Economía, the Journal of LACEA, he served as Editor between 2010 and 2012, Associate Editor between 2008 and 2010, and member of the Editorial Panel between 2005 and 2006. He was also a founding member of LACEA’s America Latina Crime and Policy Network (ALCAPONE) and a program committee member in over 10 of its yearly conferences and network meetings.
Fields
Health Economics - Demographic Economics - Crime and Violence - Labor Economics - Development Economics
Position
Vice President of Academic Affairs and Lemann Foundation Professor of Economics at Insper, Brazil.