

Diogo Britto
Postdoc researcher in Economics, Bocconi University
Diogo Britto is a postdoc researcher in economics at Bocconi University. He is also a researcher affiliate at CLEAN - Baffi-Carefin Centre, CEPR, GAPPE/UFPE and IZA. Previously, he has een a postdoctoral fellow at the Catholic University of Milan and a visiting scholar at the University of California - Santa Barbara. He holds a joint PhD degree in Law and Economics at the Universities of Bologna, Hamburg and Erasmus Rotterdam, a MSc from the University of Bologna and Bachelor from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
He is an applied economist with interests in gender, development and political economy.
Recent work by Diogo Britto
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The impacts of parental job loss and job insurance policies on children: Evidence from Brazil
Parental job loss has significant negative effects on children, which can be partly mitigated by access to unemployment insurance
Published 17.02.23
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Job losses, unemployment benefits and domestic violence: Evidence from Brazil
Job losses, through reduced income and increased exposure, lead to substantial increases in domestic violence against women which are not mitigated by unemployment benefits
Published 02.02.23
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Job loss and crime in Brazil
After mass layoffs criminal prosecutions increase for displaced workers, but eligibility for unemployment benefits offsets this effect
Published 15.09.22