Lucas Ferreira Mation

Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA)

Research Economist at the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA) in Brasília, Brazil.

Founder of IpeaDATA-lab, a laboratory that integrates the administrative records of the Brazilian federal government and uses this data to evaluate public policies.

email: lucas.mation@ipea.gov.br

Interests

Develpment Economics
Labor Economics
Public Economics

Education

M.A. in Economics, 2011

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
B.A. in Economics, 2007

Universidade de São Paulo

Working Papers

Stephen O’Connell, Lucas Mation, João Basto, Mark Dutz. Mismatch in vocational training programs. 2017.

PDF Slides Converage: Brazilian Senate Testimony (with video, starts at 41m00s) Previous version: Can business input improve the effectiveness of worker training? evidence from Brazil's Pronatec-MDIC, Wold Bank WP 8155, set/2017

Work in Progress

Intergenerational Mobility in a highly unequal country: evidence from Brazilian Administrative Records

Lucas Mation

The effects of housing programs: evidence from hundreds of large scale lotteries

Daniel da Mata, Lucas Mation

Policy Papers

(mostly in Portuguese)

Lucas Mation, Tamara Vaz. A Method for completing family groups of Benefício de Prestação Continuada (BPC) with information from the Cadastro Único. Ipea Technical Note 5, 2017.

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Nilo Saccaro, Lucas Mation, Patrícia Sakowski. Impacts of Deforestation on the Incidence of Diseases in the Brazilian Amazon. Ipea working paper, 2015.

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Lucas Mation, Diego Mambrin. Impacts of ongoing reforms to improve the business environment in Brazil on the Ease of Doing Business indicators. Ipea working paper, 2015.

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Lucas Mation, Vanessa Nadalin, Cleandro Krause. Slum growth in Brazil between 2000 and 2010: Results of a comparable classification. Ipea working paper, 2014.

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Lucas Mation. Total factor productivity in Brazil: correcting for miscoding of education. Ipea technical note, 2013.

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Book Chapters

Lucas Mation. International comparisons of productivity and impacts of the business environment. Ipea technical note, 2014.

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Projects

Data science laboratory focused on integrating the administrative records of the Brazilian Federal Government and using these to improve public policy evaluations in Brazil

Software

Lucas Mation, Nicolas Pinto. microdadosBrasil: an R package for easy use of Brazilian public microdata. R package, 2016.

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Teaching

Advanced R, private firm (2016)

Intermediate Stata, IPEA (2011, 2012, 2014)

Introduction to R for social scientists, SDH (2014)