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Hire Dr. ALEXANDRE S.

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Phd in Economics. Senior researcher in the fields of applied economic and empirical legal studies.

Profile Summary

I am a senior researcher at IPEA – Institute of Applied Economic Research (Rio de Janeiro), specializing in economic research with a strong focus on public policy. I coordinate research projects within the institute and in collaboration with public administration bodies, including judicial courts. Currently, I lead IPEAJUS, a project I conceived to develop a system for processing microdata from judicial cases in Brazil. This initiative collects data through web-scraping bots, judicial bulletin extraction, and direct contributions from courts, enabling comprehensive empirical analysis of the Brazilian judiciary. The methodology integrates jurimetric analysis and empirical models to examine judicial behavior, assess judicial reforms, and apply economic analysis to litigation. I also coordinate a project commissioned by the Brazilian Superior Labor Court (TST) to IPEA, analyzing the profiles and trajectories of workers and firms involved in labor litigation. This research relies on two key datasets: Codex, a large database from the National Justice Council containing 30 million labor lawsuits, and RAIS, a matched employer-employee dataset compiled by the Brazilian Ministry of Labor. Over the past decade, I have published extensively in Brazilian and international journals, contributing to the fields of applied economics and empirical legal studies. My expertise also includes macroeconometric models, time-series analysis, and forecasting.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Justice Systems
• ★ STATA
• ★ Econometrics
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Predictive Modeling & Analytics
• ☆ Data Processing
• ☆ Cluster Analysis
• ☆ Data Visualization
• ☆ Data Collection
• ☆ Data Manipulation
• ☆ Text Mining & Analytics
• ☆ Data Mining
• ☆ Data Cleaning
• ☆ Data Architecture
• ☆ Statistics
• ☆ Applied Statistics
• ☆ Meta-Analysis
• ☆ Regression Analysis
• ☆ Multivariate Analysis
• ☆ Nonlinear Regression
• ☆ Correlation Analysis
• ☆ Spatial Statistics
• ☆ English Language
• ☆ Public Policy Administration
• ☆ State Policy & Legislation
• ☆ Economic Policy
• ☆ Public Finance
• ☆ Educational Statistics
• ☆ Python
• ☆ SQL
• ☆ Excel
• ☆ LaTex
• ☆ R
• ☆ Tableau
• ☆ Literature Search
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ☆ Textbook Content Writing
• ☆ Literature Review
• ☆ Systematic Literature Review
• ☆ Business Statistics
• ☆ Entrepreneurship
• ☆ Political Economy
• ☆ Macroeconomics
• ☆ Microeconomics
• ☆ Business Intelligence
• ☆ Socioeconomics
• ☆ Labor Economics

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing

Research Market Research, User Research, Meta-Research, Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization, Text Mining & Analytics, Data Mining, Data Cleaning, Data Processing, Data Insights

Work Experience

Senior Researcher

INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA ECONOMICA APLICADA

May 1996 - Present

Education

PhD in Economics

EPGE - FGV (Escola de Pos-Graduação em Economia da Fundação Getúlio Vargas)

January 2010 - December 2012

Advanced to PhD Candidacy, Not a degree

ABD In Economics - University of Maryland at College Park

September 1999 - November 2004

MASTER IN ECONOMICS

FGV - FUNDACAO GETULIO VARGAS

January 1991 - January 1994

BA in economics

UFRJ - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

January 1988 - January 1993

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Alexandre Samy de Castro (2021). Judicial attitudes under shifting jurisprudence: Evidence from Brazil’s new drug law of 2006 . International Review of Law and Economics.