Dr. Pedro Forquesato

Dr. Forquesato is an Associate Professor of Economics in the School of Economics, Business and Accounting at the University of São Paulo (FEA-USP) and lead researcher at LabPub.

Previously, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of São Paulo (2018-2019) and Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2016-2018), where he also earned his Doctorate in Economics in 2016. In 2014 he was a visiting scholar at Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

His research interests are in the field of political and public sector economics. Currently, he is involved in projects studying patronage and the efficiency of municipal bureaucracy, as well as studying characteristics of taxation in low-income and middle-income countries.