Roberto Amaral de Castro Prado Santos

Roberto Amaral Santos is a PhD student in Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on environmental and agricultural economics. In particular, his work focuses on the intersection of conservation and agricultural policies, on pollination economics, and on the formation and transmission of environmental preferences and values.

Roberto has experience with both reduced and structural form estimation. He enjoys thinking out-of-the-box for identification strategies and employing new econometric techniques in his research. Although mainly an empirical researcher, he is very excited about theoretical research and how it informs great empirical work.

Roberto holds a Bachelor and a Master degree in Economics from São Paulo School of Economics - Fundação Getúlio Vargas in Brazil. He previously worked in asset management and insurance brokerage. During his graduate studies, he gained teaching experience as an instructor for Statistics for Economists (undergraduate level), as well as a teaching assistant for undergraduate and graduate economics courses. In his free time, he enjoys reading comics, classic cars and several kinds of physical activities.