Hugo Sant'Anna

Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Alabama at Birmingham

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Collat School of Business.

My research interests lie at the intersection of Labor Economics and Applied Econometrics, where I examine how large-scale disruptions reshape labor market structures, with a focus on immigration flows, environmental crises, and gender dynamics.

Currently, I am interested in difference-in-difference settings where time-varying covariates may be influenced by the treatment, but they are still crucial for the identification strategy.

Recent Publications

“The End of Free Movement and International Migration” (with Samyam Shrestha)
Economics Letters, 2025   [paper]

“The Effects of the Venezuelan Refugee Crisis on the Brazilian Labor Market” (with Samyam Shrestha)
Journal of Economic Geography, 2026   [paper]

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The Clo-Author

Your Econ AI Research Assistant for Claude Code

An open-source workflow that turns Claude Code into a full-service applied econometrics research assistant — from literature review to journal submission. Built on Pedro Sant’Anna’s claude-code-my-workflow template, reoriented for research publication.

12 specialized agents. 26 slash commands. DiD, IV, RDD, Synthetic Control, Event Studies — all validated. AEA Data Editor compliance built in.

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