PAULO ROBERTO ARVATE

- Informal Economy for Women Entrepreneurs in Developing Economies: a sad economic end? Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies (with Paulo Azevedo and Luisa Moraes) (ABS-1), 2025

   https:doi.org/10.1108/JEEE-10-2024-0452

-Heroes or Villains? Agribusiness Leaders in the Amazon Region (with G. Cordeiro, J.Story, and L. Pongeluppe) Academy Management Discoveris (ABS-3), volume 11(1), 2025

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

- Can role model women in politics help married women reduce suicides? Evidence from a quasi-experimental study in Brazil (with Rifat Atun, Raffael Massuda, Adriano Massuda, and Gabriela Gerote Arvate)

Frontiers in Public Health, 2025, 12:1513669.

 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1513669

- 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

Media coverage: Blog de Impacto: Lideranças políticas locais afetam criação de negócios nos seus municípios, aponta estudo - Blog Impacto - FGV EAESP Pesquisa

-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), volume 35(6) 101812

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)

- 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, 2024

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), 2024, volume 47(12):779-790

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

- When Women Lead: Women Mayors and Municipal Police Effectiveness in Reducing Homicide in Brazil (with S. Cabral, T. Hoang, and M. Sabharwal) Revise & Resubmit (ABS-4)

- When Can Elected Politicians Reward their Connected Firms? The Contingent Role of Access to Unelected Government Staff (with K. Barbosa e T. Teodorovicz) Revise & Resubmit (ABS-4*)

- Queen Bees or Agents of changes? Unpacking the effect of female leadership on subordinate women (with Henrique Brabo and Fernando Deodato)  Revise & Resubmit (ABS-4)

-. Pricing Against the Odds: How Informal Firms Use Strategic Pricing in a Developing Economy (with Paulo Azevedo) Submited (ABS 2)

- Changing Minds, Changing Outcomes: The Performance Effects of CEO Ideological Shifts (with Henrique Brabo)

- Management Skills and Grand Societal Challenges: Evidence from Mayoral Leadership and Societal Outcomes (with Gustavo Cordeiro and Sandro Cabral)

- The consequences of environmental regulations: evidence from the Brazilian new Forestal code for the Amazon Region (with Marina Gama, Jefferson Lana, and Rose, Leandro Pongeluppe)

- From Crime to Enterprise: How Formalization Policies Reallocate Entrepreneurial Strategies and Reduce Crime in Institutional Voids (with Paulo Azevedo, Thomaz Teodorovicz, Sandro Cabral, and Charles Bonani)

- Heterogeneity Among Women and the Effects of Public Policy: Women Entrepreneurs Between the Formal and Informal Sectors of the Economy (with Luisa Moraes)

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

- Water experiment (with Sandro Cabral, Carlos Inoue, Henrique Brabo, and Plinio Bernardi Jr)

- Poor and rich effects on informal career (with with Luisa Moraes and Thomaz Teodorvicz)

- Does Money Talk? Experimental Evidence That Information—Not Finance—Shapes Legislative Behavior (with Ricardo Gomes, Talita Mariane, and Evan Berman)

- The limits of framing: Age as a stronger predictor of public sector career choice than motivational appeals (with Ricardo Gomes and Gene Brewer)