Pedro is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the School of Economics, Business and Accounting at the University of São Paulo (FEA-USP) and researcher at LabPub. Previously, he was a post-doctoral researcher at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, where he also earned his PhD in Economics, and 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 taxation in Latin American economies.