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

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Intergenerational Mobility in Socio-Emotional Skills

with Orazio Attanasio and Alessandro Toppeta

Journal of Public Economics, 2025

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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

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Identifying Preferences in Networks with Bounded Degree

with Seth Richards-Shubik and Elie Tamer

Econometrica, 86 (1), 2018

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