Eduardo Cenci

Dr. Cenci is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, University at Nebraska at Omaha. He earned his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2021, where he also completed the Delta Certificate in Teaching and Learning. At UNO, Dr. Cenci teaches intermediate microeconomics at the undergraduate and graduate levels. His main research interests are migration, labor mobility, and rural development. In particular, he is interested in the role of migration in spreading knowledge and accelerating economic transformations. His current research investigates the spreading of the impacts of historical immigration in Brazil and heterogeneity in the returns to rural-urban migration in Indonesia. Dr. Cenci grew up on a farm in central Brazil and worked for many years in his family?s farming business before transitioning to academia. He is involved in several initiatives to support inclusive and accessible education in the US and Brazil.