Rita Pereira

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Nova SBE

Rita Dias Pereira is a health and education economist with a focus on the intersection of genetics and socio-economic inequalities. Rita holds a postdoctoral position at Nova School of Business and Economics. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Publications

Overcoming attenuation bias in regressions using polygenic indices

with Hans van Kippersluis, Pietro Biroli, et al. Nature Communications 14, 4473 (2023).

Rank concordance of polygenic indices

with Dilnoza Muslimova, Rita Dias Pereira, Stephanie von Hinke et al. Nature Human Behaviour 7, 802–811 (2023).

The Interplay between Maternal Smoking and Genes in Offspring Birth Weight

with Cornelius A. Rietveld and Hans van Kippersluis, The Journal of Human Resources, Published online before print August 05, 2022, 1020-11266R2.

Gene-environment interplay in the social sciences

with Pietro Biroli, Titus Galama et al. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, 2022.