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Thiago Scarelli, second Young Economist Award of the Inter-American Development Bank

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The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has announced the winners of the IDB Young Economist Award.

This award is an accolade recognizing and celebrating outstanding research by recent PhD graduates with a keen focus on Latin America and the Caribbean.

Thiago Scarelli, PhD student at the Paris School of Economics and at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, won the second prize for his work on the timing of payments for ridesharing drivers in Brazil.

The winners will be recognized during the 30th anniversary of the IDB Research Department Conference scheduled for September 12-13.