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PAULO ROBERTO ARVATE

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MAIN DESCRIPTION

Graduate and undergraduate professor on São Paulo School of Business Administration (Getulio Vargas Foundation/FGV). Ph.D. Economics, University of São Paulo, Brazil (one year at UCLA, CA) . Short Visits: Visiting Professor at the MSU, USA; Visiting Researcher at Nova de Lisboa, PT; Average articles published 1-4* ABS: 3. Permanent member - Center for Applied Microeconomics (C-Micro/EESP-FGV); Councilor of Finance Institute (I-Fin/EAESP-FGV). Member - Ethical Compliance Committee on Research Involving Human Beings (CEPH/FGV). Honors and Awards: Several times finalist with their Ph.D. students of the best year paper from the Brazilian National Association of Business Schools; The 2005 Best Brazilian Technical Book (The Jabuti Award); The 2018 Best Applied Paper (Getulio Vargas Foundation); The 2019 George Stigler Award/Second Best Applied Paper (INSPER); The 2019 The Leadership Quarterly Best Paper Award; The 2021-23 nominated for the Charles H. Levine Award - the Best Conference Paper in the Public and Nonprofit Division (Academy of Management); The 2023 Best Paper (Kelley School of Business - Indiana University)

PUBLICATIONS

- Leaders affect business creation: Evidence from Mayoral elections (with J. Story)

Leadership Quarterly, 2024 (ABS-4), volume 35(5) 101577

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2021.101577

-Are women strategic leaders more effective during a crisis than men strategic leaders? A causal analysis of the relationship between strategic leader gender and outcomes during the COVID-19 crisis. (with N. Bastardoz, B. Gazdag, T. Hentschel, W. Obenauer, and J. Sieweke) Leadership Quarterly, 2024 (ABS-4)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101812

Media coverage: PsyPost.org (Replication study undermines claim of "women leadership advantage" during COVID-19 crisis)

-Strategic Discrimination in Embedded Contexts and the Emergence of Systematic Exclusion (with L. Lenz and S. Mittlaender) Empirical Economics (ABS-2), volume 66: 1383-1401, 2024

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-023-02487-7

Media coverage: Blog de Impacto (Recrutamento de colaboradores a partir de indicações (impacto.blog.br)

-Heroes or Villains? Agribusiness Leaders in the Amazon Region (with G. Cordeiro, J.Story, and L. Pongeluppe) Academy Management Discoveris (ABS-3), 2023

https://doi.org/10.5465/amd.2022.0255

Media coverage: AOM insights; Folha de São Paulo - Brazilian newspaper (https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/mercado/2024/02/cidades-com-prefeitos-do-agro-nao-desmataram-mais-que-outras-e-geraram-mais-negocios-diz-estudo.shtml); Internet (https://www.acessa.com/economia/2024/02/205128-cidades-com-prefeitos-do-agro-nao-desmataram-mais-que-outras-e-geraram-mais-negocios-diz-estudo.html); Twitter (https://twitter.com/folha/status/1759779419722265012); TV: Jovem Pan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPYTIMXqEPc)

https://journals.aom.org/doi/full/10.5465/amd.2022.0255.summary

Entrepreneurial identity and entrepreneurial action: a within-person field study (with C. Guarana, R. Stevenson, J. Lee, S. Conder, and C. Bonani) Personnel Psychology (ABS-4*), volume 7(1): 197-224, 2023

http://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12611

- Fostering agility through public procurement reforms: the role of experienced public officers (with P. Reis and S. Cabral). International Journal of Public Administration (ABS-2), 2023

https://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2023.2205048

- Armed Police and Violence: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Brazil (with A. P. Souza)

Economic Modelling (ABS-2), volume 111: 105825, 2022

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2022.105825

Media coverage: Folha de São Paulo (newspaper), and Globo(newspaper)

- Structural Advocacy Organizations and Intersectional Outcomes:  Effects of Women´s Police Stations on Female Homicides (with S. Cabral, A. MaCgahan, and P. Reis)

Public Administration Review, 2022 (ABS-4*), volume 82(3):503-521

https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13478

Media coverage: Folha de São Paulo (newspaper), Estado de São Paulo (newspaper), and Globo (TV channel - Jornal Hoje)

- Can women's performance in elections determine the engagement of adolescent girls in politics? (with S. Firpo and R. Pieri)

European Journal of Political Economy (ABS-2), volume 70, 2021

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2021.102045

Media coverage: Folha de São Paulo (newspaper)

- Fostering Entrepreneurship: The crucial role of monitoring schemes (with G.G. Cunha)

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy (ABS-1), volume 10(4), 2021, 527-554

https://doi.org/10.1108/JEPP-01-2021-0007

- The Queen Bee: a myth? The effect of top-level female leadership on subordinate females (with G.W. Galilea and I. Todescat)

Leadership Quarterly (ABS-4 - Lead Article), volume 29, 2018, 533-548.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1048984317305179

Media coverage: Folha de São Paulo (newspaper), and Discovery Magazine (Magazine)

- Lighting and Homicides: Evaluating the Effect of an Electrification Policy in Rural Brazil on Violent Crime Reduction

(with F. O. Falsete, F.G. Ribeiro, and A.P. Souza)

Journal of Quantitative Criminology (Top 5 Journal - List of Criminology), volume 34, 2018, 1047-1078.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10940-017-9365-6

Media coverage: Folha de São Paulo (newspaper)

- Superior economic performance in developed and developing countries (with S. Ruiz and W.G. Xavier).

International Journal of Emerging Markets (ABS-1), volume 12, 2017, 93-107.

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJoEM-12-2014-0213/full/html

- Condemning corruption while condoning inefficiency: an experimental investigation into voting behavior (with S.M.L., Souza)

Public Choice (ABS-3), volume 172, 2017, 399-419.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11127-017-0452-x

Media coverage: Folha de São Paulo (newspaper)

- Future electoral impacts of having a female mayor (with S. Firpo and R. Pieri)

Political Science Review (Lead Article), volume 11, 2017, 1-28

ttps://www.scielo.br/j/bpsr/a/HsgFNN38xQGcMcfN3bKRXdj/?lang=en

Media coverage: Folha de São Paulo (newspaper)

- Institutional quality and capital taxation (with L. Araujo)

International Tax and Public Finance (ABS-3), volume 23, 2016, 25-47.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10797-014-9346-8

- Municipalities secession, median voter, public good provision (with E. Mattos and V. Ponczeck)

Economics Bulletin, volume 35, 2015, A22

ttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/44886050_Municipalities_Secession_and_uncertainty_on_public_goods_provision

- Electoral Competition and Local Government Responsiveness in Brazil

World Development (ABS-3), volume 43, 2013, 67-83.

ttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305750X12002835

- Intergenerational conflict and public education expenditure when there is co-residence between the elderly and young (with A.C.P., Zoghbi)

Economics of Education Review (ABS-2), volume 29, 2010, 1165-1175.

ttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272775710000749

- Vertical transfers and the appropriation of resources by the bureaucracy: the case of Brazilian state governments (with N. Marconi, P.E.M. Palombo, and J.S.Moura)

Public Choice (ABS-3), 2009, 65-85

ttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11127-009-9438-7

- Fiscal Conservatism in a New Democracy: "Sophisticated" versus "Naive" Voters (with J. Tavares and G. Avelino)

Economic Letters (ABS-3), 2009, volume 102, 125-127 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165176508003273

- Corruption and the size of government: causality tests for OECD and Latin American countries (with A. Curi, F. Rocha, and F.S.M. Sanches)

Applied Economics Letters (ABS-2), 2009, 1013-1017

ttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504850802676207

SUBMITTED

- Can politician women models help married women reduce suicides? A quasi-experimental evidence from Brazil (with G. Arvate, A. Massuda, R. Massuda, and R. Atun) Submitted

- Navigating the Incongruity: The Benefits of Communal and Participative Decision-Making Traits for Women in Elected Roles (with S. Cabral, T. Hoang, and M. Sabharwal) Revise & Resubmit (ABS-4*)

- When do politicians fail to reward politically connected firms? A Study on the resources of non-market stakeholders (with K. Barbosa e T. Teodorovicz) Revise & Resubmit (ABS-4*)

- An Experimental Approach to Unethical Purchasing: The Effect of Rational Risk and Social Norms, to Theory and Decision (with A. Chen and Yen-Tsang) Submitted

WORKING PAPERS

- Women Small-Business Owners in the Informal Economy: Is the way women do prices a competitive advantage? (with L. Moraes and N. Bartadoz)

- Breaking down barriers or the "chameleon effect": an event study approach to analyze the effects of reform to simplify and unify the new ventures registration process (with C. Bonani)

- Mobilization of followers by leaders for partisanship and collective action (with H. Brabo and F. Deodato)

- When professional background can betray our best intuition: the case of physician mayors in Brazil (with G. Cordeiro)

- The impact of conservation zone regulation on the growth of Agricultural Firms in the Amazon Rainforest (with M. Gama, L. Pongeluppe, J. Lana, and R. Marcon)

The informal economy for women entrepreneurs in developing countries: a sad economic end? (with P. Azevedo and L. Moraes)

- Does informality increase crimes against property? (with P. Azevedo)

- Is the mobility of followers explained by differences/convergence of opinion with the leader? (with H. Brabo)

- Public-Private Partnership (PPP) beyond access and reach for disenfranchised people: evaluating the quality of health service in these partnerships (with G. Cordeiro)

- Can discrimination interfere with the public health policy? The case of the Brazilian More Physician Program (with G. Cordeiro, C. Marinho, I. Furtado, A. Massuda, S. Firpo, V. Ponczeck, R. Atun)

- Water experiment and business consumption (with S. Cabral, H. Brabo, P. Bernardi Jr, and C. Inoue)

- Water crisis: does it improve or reduce opportunities for new entrepreneurs? (with C. Bonani and C. Inoue) 

- Differences between hospitals and public health (with C. Inoue, G. Cordeiro, and H. Brabo)

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ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

1996 - current

Department of Economics - Business School - Getulio Vargas Fountation

FULL PROFESSOR

1989 - 2007

School of Economics - Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo

CHIEF FINANCIAL  OFFICE (CFO)

1997 - 2002

Data Processing Company of the São Paulo State (PRODESP)

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