Biography
My name is Rita and I was born in Portugal where I did my bachelor. I completed my master in economics in Mannheim University and at the moment I do my phD at Erasmus University. My topic is the interaction between genes and environment in health and education inequalities. I am interested in understanding inequalities with respect to health and education as well as to understand the persistence of those inequalities across generations.
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Work
- Rita Dias Pereira, Cornelius A. Rietveld & Hans van Kippersluis (2025) - The Interplay between Maternal Smoking and Genes in Offspring Birth Weight - Journal of Human Resources, 60 (2), 400-433 - doi: 10.3368/JHR.1020-11266R2 - [link]
- Rita Dias Pereira, Niels Rietveld & Hans van Kippersluis (2025) - The Interplay between Maternal Smoking and Genes in Offspring Birth Weight - Journal of Human Resources, 60 (2), 400-433 - doi: 10.3368/jhr.1020-11266R2 - [link]
- Hans van Kippersluis, Pietro Biroli, Rita Dias Pereira, Titus J. Galama, Stephanie von Hinke, S. Fleur W. Meddens, Dilnoza Muslimova, Eric A.W. Slob, Ronald de Vlaming & Cornelius A. Rietveld (2023) - Overcoming attenuation bias in regressions using polygenic indices - Nature Communications, 14 (1) - doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-40069-4 - [link]
- Rita Dias Pereira (2023) - What makes us unique?: Genetic and environmental drivers of health and education inequalities
- Dilnoza Muslimova, Rita Dias Pereira, Stephanie von Hinke, Hans van Kippersluis, Cornelius A. Rietveld & S. Fleur W. Meddens (2023) - Rank concordance of polygenic indices - Nature Human Behaviour, 7 (5), 802-811 - doi: 10.1038/s41562-023-01544-6 - [link]
- Dilnoza Muslimova, Rita Dias Pereira, Stephanie von Hinke, Hans van Kippersluis, Niels Rietveld & Fleur Meddens (2023) - Rank concordance of polygenic indices: Implications for personalised intervention and gene-environment interplay - bioRxiv - doi: 10.1101/2022.05.03.490435 - [link]
- Rita Dias Pereira, Hans van Kippersluis & Niels Rietveld (2023) - The interplay between maternal smoking and genes in offspring birth weight - doi: 0.3368/jhr.1020-11266R2 - [link]
- Rita Dias Pereira, Pietro Biroli, Titus Galama, Stephanie von Hinke, Hans van Kippersluis, Niels Rietveld & Kevin A Thomas (2022) - Gene-environment interplay in the Social Sciences - doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190625979.013.804 - [link]
- Hans van Kippersluis, Pietro Biroli, Titus Galama, Stephanie von Hinke, Fleur Meddens, Dilnoza Muslimova, Rita Dias Pereira & Niels Rietveld (2021) - Using Obviously-Related Instrumental Variables to Increase the Predictive Power of Polygenic Scores - doi: 10.1101/2021.04.09.439157
