Today we are spotlighting Eduardo Cenci ( @educenci), Ph.D. student and Job Market Candidate in Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ( @UW_AAE). Eduardo's research interests are in migration and rural development. (1/5)

Eduardo’s job market paper (w/ @LopesDanielBR and @lmonasterio) investigates how internal migration spread long-term effects of historical immigration in Brazil using a surname-based classification to identify the descendants of immigrants and linked employer-employee data. (2/5)

They find that in municipalities with more descendants of historical immigrants, both descendants and non-descendants have higher wages. Their discussion of mechanisms points to labor complementarities and technology spillovers being at play, particularly in agriculture. (3/5)

Eduardo's other works include studying heterogeneity in the returns to rural-urban migration by using machine learning and correlated random coefficients. He also investigates the components and evolution of wage premium for current and returned internal migrants in Brazil.(4/5)

To know more about Eduardo and his research, visit- https://sites.google.com/wisc.edu/eduardocenci/home?authuser=0 Give @educenci a follow! (5)