Placement Rita Dias Pereira: Nova School of Business and Economics

Rita is a PhD student at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Tinbergen Institute under the supervision of fellows Eddy van Doorslaer and Hans van Kippersluis.

She draws on novel findings in the social-science genetics literature to gain a deeper understanding of health and education inequalities and has conducted research on gene-environment interactions, social mobility, and equality of opportunity. She has published in Nature Human Behavior and the Journal of Human Resources, among others.