Prof. Musacchio named NBER research associate

Prof. Aldo Musacchio was appointed a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Prof. Aldo Musacchio recently earned a prestigious research associate appointment at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a top nonpartisan research organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Musacchio is the director of the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program at Brandeis International Business School and the faculty director of the school’s Perlmutter Institute for Global Business Leadership.

Musacchio’s appointment as a research associate was announced in September. Prior to that, he had served as a faculty research fellow at NBER since 2008 in the organization’s Development of the American Economy program.

Musacchio is an expert on economic development, labor and education in Brazil.

In his current working paper, Musacchio and two Brandeis colleagues, Professor of Economics Nidhya Menon and Amanda Guimbeau, PhD’21, examine the long-term impact of the 1918 influenza pandemic on Brazil in order to anticipate some of the challenges the world will face in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

“We’re looking at the long-term shock,” said Musacchio. “You think of the short term effect — people getting sick and dying. But what happens 20 or 30 years down the road? Does it matter that men are dying more than women? For kids, is the disruption going to have an impact on their education compared to other cohorts?”

Musacchio said that his next research project will investigate the long-term impact of European immigration on Brazil.