curriculum vitae
I am an Assistant Professor of economics at Nova School of Business and Economics.
I study education and other public services, with a particular interest in the political economy of improving them.
Email: wayne.sandholtz@novasbe.pt
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Twitter: @wsandholtz
NEWS:
- Oct. 2026 – The VoxDevLit on Political Economy of Public Services I worked on is out now! With Senior Editor Claudio Ferraz and Co-Editors Anderson Frey, Thomas Fujiwara, Meera Mahadevan, and Diana Moreira.
- Sept. 2026 – Tax morale, public goods, and politics: Experimental evidence from Mozambique (joint with Pedro Vicente) has been accepted at Economic Development and Cultural Change.
- Feb. 2026 – Sibling Spillovers and Free Schooling (joint with João R. Ferreira) has been accepted at the Review of Economics and Statistics. See the new draft here.
- Jan. 2026 – My coauthor Isaac Ahimbisibwe presented our joint work on higher education in Uganda at ASSA (joint with Adrien Dautheville, Lenka Fiala, and Kizito Omala).
- Dec. 2025 – New draft of The Politics of Public Service Reform as IZA Dicussion Paper 18346.
- Dec. 2025 – New draft of The Political Consequences of Controversial Education Reform: Lessons from Wisconsin’s Act 10 with Barbara Biasi.
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