Áureo de Paula

Áureo de Paula

Professor of Economics

University College London · CeMMAP · Institute for Fiscal Studies

Microeconometrics · Applied Microeconomics

About

I am a Professor of Economics at University College London, a research fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (CeMMAP). I am also affiliated with CEPR.

My research is at the intersection of applied economic theory, econometrics, and empirical microeconomics. It features both methodological contributions — such as on identification and estimation of multi-agent models and network models — as well as empirical applications, including work on tax evasion, risky behaviour in developing nations.

I am an elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and the International Association for Applied Econometrics. I have served as an editor for the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Econometrics and I am presently a co-editor for Econometrica. I have also served as associate editor for the Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Reviews, the Econometrics Journal, and the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics as well as a director for the Review of Economic Studies and an elected member for the Council and Executive Committee for the Econometric Society.

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Selected Publications

Leveraging Subjective Expectations for Production Functions

with Steve Bond, Agnes Norris Keiller and John Van Reenen

American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2026

Intergenerational Mobility in Socio-Emotional Skills

with Orazio Attanasio and Alessandro Toppeta

Journal of Public Economics, 2025

Are Self-Reported Fertility Preferences Biased? Evidence from Indirect Elicitation Methods

with C. Valente, W. Qiang Toh, I. Jalingo, A. Lepine and G. Miller

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024

Identifying Preferences in Networks with Bounded Degree

with Seth Richards-Shubik and Elie Tamer

Econometrica, 86 (1), 2018

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