Urban Demographics

The Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea) published yesterday our study looking at ' Urban mobility and access to the h...

We are hiring six research assistants to work with me on the Access to Opportunities Project , at the Institute for Applied Economic R...

Amit Bhatt  (WRI) has written a very eloquent piece on why cities should focus on promoting accessibility, not mobility. Good read. ...

Last week, we officialy launched the Access to Opportunities Project . In this first edition of the project (2019) we present accessibili...

Glad to share our paper on "Distributional effects of transport policies on inequalities in access to opportunities in Rio de Janeiro...

Here is a recent paper with some interesting findings suggesting that more walkable cities can facilitate upward social mobility (Thanks ...

This week, on Sept 18 at 7pm (GMT) , we will be broadcasting a live webinar to present some of the preliminary results of the Access to Opp...

Today is the 5th anniversary of Caos Planejado , a great Brazilian blog focused on urban planning, economics and innovation. Long live...

Interesting new paper analyzing accessibility to emergency hospital care in sub-Saharan Africa in 2015. The authors have done a laborious ...

Summarizing the core elements of one's research to communicate with a wide audience is among the most challenging and yet important as...

shameless self-promotion post  again  Last week I was attending the 2019 International Transport Forum Summit , where I presented a...

Hi all. I am so glad to share that I have been honored with the 2019 Young Researcher of the Year Award, by the International Transport F...

I am very pleased to share that my PhD thesis was awarded the best 2019 thesis award by the Transportation Geography Specialty Group of ...

The map shows how long it takes (in minutes) to travel by public transport and walking to the closest healthcare facility across the city...

I'm glad to share that the 3rd paper of my thesis is now published. The study (1) illustrates how one can measure the future accessi...

This is just a reminder that I am hiring a research assistant for the Access to Opportunities Project , at the Institute for Applied E...

This post will probably be of interest to only a small share of readers living in Brazil. We have an open position for a research assi...

PhD thesis officially deposited! You can download the thesis here and check the  R code I used in the data wrangling, mapping and analysis...

Warning of  shameless   self-promotion: I'm glad to share that some colleagues at UBC ( Jerome ,  Martino  and Nuttall) and I have ...

I'm glad to share that the 2nd paper of my thesis is now published. It will remain open access for the next 50 days.  Downloaded it...