Rodrigo R. Soares
Research Fellow
Joined RFBerlin as a Research Fellow in October 2025
Research area
Economics of Crime Labor Economics Health and Demographic Economics Development
About Rodrigo R. Soares
Rodrigo R. Soares is Lemann Foundation Professor of Economics at Insper, Brazil. Before joining Insper, Rodrigo was a full professor at Columbia University and at the Sao Paulo School of Economics-FGV, associate and assistant professor at PUC-Rio, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland-College Park. His research ranges from health and demographic economics to crime and labor. It has appeared in the main international academic outlets in economics, including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of the European Economic Association, and American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, among various others. At Insper, Rodrigo was also Vice-president of Academic Affairs (2023-2025) and Dean of Research (2022-2023).
Rodrigo is an Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and an Honorary Member of Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association. In 2006, he was awarded the Kenneth J. Arrow Award from the International Health Economics Association for the best paper published in the field of Health Economics. He was also awarded four times the research prize from the Brazilian Economic Association (ANPEC), three times for the best paper (2006, 2009, and 2022) and once for the best PhD dissertation (2002). Rodrigo is research fellow at RFBerlin (ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin – Institute for the Economy and the Future of Work), research fellow at IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor, Germany), fellow at the Global Labor Organization, research affiliate at J-PAL Latin America, and associate editor of the Journal of Human Capital and of the Journal of Demographic Economics.
In addition to his academic activities, Rodrigo has acted as a consultant for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and state governments in Brazil on issues related to labor markets, crime and violence, health, and development.
Rodrigo is an Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and an Honorary Member of Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association. In 2006, he was awarded the Kenneth J. Arrow Award from the International Health Economics Association for the best paper published in the field of Health Economics. He was also awarded four times the research prize from the Brazilian Economic Association (ANPEC), three times for the best paper (2006, 2009, and 2022) and once for the best PhD dissertation (2002). Rodrigo is research fellow at RFBerlin (ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin – Institute for the Economy and the Future of Work), research fellow at IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor, Germany), fellow at the Global Labor Organization, research affiliate at J-PAL Latin America, and associate editor of the Journal of Human Capital and of the Journal of Demographic Economics.
In addition to his academic activities, Rodrigo has acted as a consultant for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and state governments in Brazil on issues related to labor markets, crime and violence, health, and development.
