João Pedro Figueira Amorim Parga

PhD Candidate

University of Toronto

PhD student in Human geography at the University of Toronto and research assistant at the Mobilizing Justice partnership. In his dissertation, he uses causal inference methods to estimate transportation policies' impacts on people's satisfaction with their activity participation and on measures of distributive justice on transportation.

Interests

• Urban Economics
• Urban Accessibility
• Labor Markets
• Sociodemographic data

Education

• PhD in Geography, ongoing

  University of Toronto

• MSc in Economics, 2020

  Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)

• BSc in Economics, 2014

  Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)