About

I am PhD student at São Paulo School of Economics (FGV EESP).

You can find my CV here and reach me at lucas.dias@fgv.edu.br.

Fields: International Trade, Economic Geography, Urban Economics.

Research

Publications

Trade Liberalization and Mortality Rates: Evidence of Pro-Cyclical Mortality from Brazil with Vinícius Cícero and Sammy Zahran
Health Economics, 2025

Impacts of Royalties on Copper Miners in Chile with Eduardo Haddad, Patricio Aroca, and Sofia Arantes
The Empirical Economics Letters, 2020

Working Papers

Rural Productivity, Urban Transformation (with Germano Wallerstein), Coming soon

Diet, Economic Development, and Climate Change (with Jordan Norris and Heitor Pellegrina), August 2025. Conditionally Accepted, The Economic Journal

Donkey Business: Trade, Resource Exploitation, and Crime (with Vinícius Cícero), October 2024. R&R Journal of the European Economic Association

Optimal Road Network and The Gains from Intranational Trade (with Eduardo Haddad and Andrés Maggi), November 2020. New version soon

Work in Progress

Planned Cities in Hierarchical Urban Systems