Renan Serenini is a PhD student at the European PhD in Socio-Economic and Statistical Studies at La Sapienza University of Rome and works at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). His research interest lie in Econometrics, Causal Inference and Public Health. His research includes the identification of spatial spillovers of public health policies in Brazil, the analysis of the spatial distribution of obesity and the use of spatial analysis in causal inference.