Laura Barros

Laura Barros is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of International Economic Policy (Prof. Kis-Katos). She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Göttingen, a Master's degree in Economics from Heidelberg University, and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Her research interests comprise development economics, gender, political economy, and applied microeconometrics.

Publications

Barros, Laura and Manuel Santos Silva (2025) Economic shocks, gender, and populism: Evidence from Brazil. Journal of Development Economics, 174, 103412

Barros, Laura and Manuel Santos Silva (2025) Between sticky floors and glass ceilings: Trade liberalization and wage inequality by gender and race in Brazil. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 73(4): 1685-1719

Barros, Laura and Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso (2022). Systematic literature review on trade liberalization and sustainable development. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 33, 921–931.

Barros, Laura and Ute Rink (2021) Spending or saving? Female empowerment and financial decisions in a matrilineal society. World Development, 141, p.105342

Working papers

Barros, Laura and Aiko Schmeißer (2025) Economic Shocks, Opportunity Costs, and the Supply of Politicians
Barros, Laura and Yuanwei Xu (2025) Natural Disasters and Intimate Partner Violence
Cieply, Isea, Laura Barros, Thomas Kneib, Alexander Silbersdorff, and Krisztina Kis-Katos (2025) Why Female Professors Earn Less: The Role of Retention Negotiations and Performance Bonuses

Work in progress

Dual ascent: Chinese demand and agrarian elites (with Samuel Siewers and Juliano Assunção)
Political peer effects (with Aiko Schmeißer and Rafael Rubião)
Access to higher education, unemployment, and political resentment (with Claudio Ferraz, Manuel Santos Silva, and Samuel Siewers)
Indigenous quotas and the political representation of historically marginalized groups (with Krisztina Kis-Katos and Amanda Woodman Deza)
Religious supply and local violence (with Krisztina Kis-Katos and Manuel Santos Silva)

Teaching

Lecturer for Labor Economics WiSe 2024/2025
TA for Migration Economics: Replication Course, SoSe 2024, SoSe 2022
TA for Empirical Political Economy, WiSe 2021/2022, WiSe 2023/2024, SoSe 2025
TA for Applied Panel Data Econometrics, SoSe 2021, SoSe 2022
TA for Sustainable Development, Trade and Environmental Economics WiSe 2019/2020, SoSe 2020
TA for Introduction to Development Economics SoSe 2019
TA for Development Economics IV: Gender, Institutions, and Development WiSe 2018/2019
TA for European and Global Trade WiSe 2018/2019