Fernando Barros Jr

⭐ Sector-by-sector results: Eliminating distortions in modern services alone raises GDP per worker by ~6% on average (≈10% in lower-income countries). Modern services generate strong spillovers through the network.

🏗️ Why so large? Network spillovers. Removing frictions strengthens supply chains, boosts efficiency, and accelerates structural transformation toward services (especially modern services).

📢 New publication! Our paper “Production networks and structural transformation” is now out in Economic Modelling. This is joint work with @DelaliberaBruno, Marcos Ribeiro, and Marc Teignier. Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mRIWyGFseVCG

Looking ahead to 2026: 📚 better and more carefully prepared classes 📄 more ambitious research projects 👨‍👩‍👦 more time with family and friends

Beyond academia, being a father to Luigi remains the greatest joy of my life — far beyond anything I could have imagined. Nothing else even comes close.

2025 was an intense, demanding, and deeply meaningful year for my academic and personal life. A short thread on research, teaching, persistence, and gratitude 🧵

Our findings highlight how political accountability becomes more complex in a globalized world—where citizens’ experiences abroad influence democratic choices at home. If you're interested in economic voting, behavioral politics, or diaspora studies, check it out

To explain this phenomenon, we build a behavioral political-economy model where some voters misinterpret foreign economic signals as informative about the incumbent’s competence. This “correlation neglect” helps rationalize why exogenous shocks shape election outcomes.

How do economic conditions abroad influence how expatriates vote in their home country? Our new paper, published in Public Choice, investigates how Brazilians living abroad voted in the 2010 and 2014 presidential elections. 👉 doi.org/10.1007/s11127…

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Hoje completo 5 anos como professor na @FEARPUSP. Muito feliz por fazer parte desta escola que me deu muito espaço para trabalhar e suporte para desenvolver projetos pessoais. Um agradecimento em especial, por me dar acesso a alunos incríveis que me ensinaram muito nesses anos!