Professor of Economics at Insper since January 2016.

Sergio Firpo holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics (1996) from the University of Campinas (Unicamp), a Master’s degree (1999) in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), a Master’s degree in Statistics (2002), and a PhD in Economics (2003) from the University of California, Berkeley.

He served as an assistant professor of economics at the University of British Columbia (2003-2006) and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2004-2008), and as an associate professor at the São Paulo School of Economics (2008-2015). From February 2023 to May 2025, Firpo was the National Secretary for Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Policies and Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Planning and Budget.

His primary research interests include microeconometrics, policy evaluation, labor economics, development economics, and empirical political economy. His work has been published in various peer-reviewed journals and books, including Econometrica, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Human Resources, and the Handbook of Labor Economics. His research has received awards, including the Richard Stone Prize in Applied Econometrics.

Firpo is an Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and the International Association for Applied Econometrics. He is a Level 1 researcher at CNPq and an associate researcher at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), the Global Labor Organization (GLO), the Center for Evaluation and Development (C4ED), and the Racial Studies Center at Insper (NERI). He has been Editor of the Brazilian Review of Econometrics and Associate Editor of the Journal of Business Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Econometric Methods, and the Journal of Applied Econometrics.