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Vitor Possebom

@PossebomVitor

Assistant Professor at @EconFGVSP. Ph.D. 2022 at @YaleEconomics. Passionate about Econometrics, especially causal inference. 🇧🇷 (He/his)

 São Paulo, Brazil
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Joined January 2019
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Setti, @AraujoCRRafael and I just released a WP analyzing the effect of environmental enforcement on the homicide rate in the Amazon. The paper is here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.06076 Setti is a remarkably bright young economist. Check her website: sites.google.com/view/gabrie….
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Much has been written about the trade-off between environmental protection and development. In the Amazon context, I’ve become more and more convinced that this trade-off is misleading.
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Identifying the distributional and quantile marginal treatment effects when the outcome is right-censored. Just Accepted new paper by Santiago Acerenza, Vitor Possebom @PossebomVitor and Pedro H. C. Sant’Anna @pedrohcgs zurl.co/dyPVz
Was Javert Right to Be Suspicious? Marginal Treatment Effects with Duration Outcomes

Was Javert Right to Be Suspicious? Marginal Treatment Effects with Duration Outcomes

Abstract. We identify the distributional and quantile marginal treatment effect functions when the outcome is right-censored. Our method requires a conditionally exogenous instrument and random...

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We thank Shifrah Aron-Dine for presenting a seminar at the Sao Paulo School of Economics (FGV).
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Thales ZP@thaleszpSep 27
Lembrando.
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Thales ZP@thaleszpSep 20
Agradeço ao Samuel pela presença no lançamento e pela menção na sua coluna. www1.folha.uol.com.br/coluna…
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Lara Mesquita@lara_mesquitaSep 17
Lançamento do livro de @thaleszp e Leo Weller na @EconomiaGV . Auditório lotado de alunos, professores e convidados para escutar a conversa dos autores com Zeina Latif, Samuel Pessoa e Persio Arida.
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Análise Real
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1/ Excited to share our new working paper, "Omitted Variable Bias in Difference-in-Differences Designs." tinyurl.com/ovb4did This is joint work with: - Juejue Wang (juejuew.github.io); - Pedro Sant'Anna (@pedrohcgs); and, - Victor Chernozhukov (@VC31415).
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Thales ZP@thaleszpSep 17
é hoje!
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Thales ZP@thaleszpSep 10
Será no mesmo dia do encontro da @ABPHE2 na UFF. Quem quiser debater política econômica do período 1985-2015, apareça!
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A little bit late, but very happy to announce that this week I started as an Assistant Professor at @iseglisbon. It’s been a great first week, and I’m very excited to join the department and start this new chapter. Looking forward to the years ahead!
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We thank Alei Fernandes for presenting a seminar at the Sao Paulo School of Economics (FGV). #economicsfgvsp #econtwitter
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Thales ZP@thaleszpJul 30
Temos a segunda capa. Será lançado no próximo mês. Inclui capítulo sobre a história econômica do Brasil colônia. routledge.com/Routledge-Hand…
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Gabriela Setti, uma excelente ex-aluna do mestrado da FGV EESP, fala um pouco sobre um artigo coautorado comigo e com o @AraujoCRRafael . Vídeo: youtu.be/-MpNYCqppsY?si=GuaV…
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Nossas estimativas sugerem que o Sistema DETER de Monitoramento Ambiental via Satélite preveniu quase 1.500 homicídios por ano na região da Amazônia, uma redução de aproximadamente 15%.
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Quem quiser saber mais sobre a relação entre a fiscalização ambiental e a redução da violência na Amazônia pode encontrar nosso paper aqui: arxiv.org/abs/2509.06076.
DETERring more than Deforestation: Environmental Enforcement...

DETERring more than Deforestation: Environmental Enforcement...

We estimate the impact of environmental law enforcement on violence in the Brazilian Amazon. The introduction of the Real-Time Deforestation Detection System (DETER), which enabled the government...

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Thales ZP@thaleszpJun 26
Novo "guia" para estudantes de história econômica, a partir de uma aula da pós em que mostro a alunos de economia como a área se desenvolveu no Brasil.
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We thank Victor Orestes for presenting a seminar at the Sao Paulo School of Economics (FGV). #economicsfgvsp #econtwitter
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We thank Matteo Bobba for presenting a seminar at the Sao Paulo School of Economics (FGV). #economicsfgvsp #econtwitter
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We thank Rodrigo Pinto for presenting a seminar at the Sao Paulo School of Economics (FGV). #economicsfgvsp #econtwitter
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dECON@dECON_UdelaRMay 20
📢 Seminarios 2026 @dECON_UdelaR Les invitamos al próximo seminario: 🗓️ Viernes 22 de mayo | 14:00 🎓 Presenta: @PossebomVitor 📍 Salón 2, Casa de Posgrados @fcsudelar
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We thank Giorgio Chiovelli for presenting a seminar at the Sao Paulo School of Economics (FGV). #economicsfgvsp #econtwitter
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