Associate Professor, PUC-Rio
Research Fellow, IZA
Cientista do Nosso Estado, FAPERJ
Invited Researcher, The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
Email: rnarita@econ.puc-rio.br
Curriculum Vitae
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Education
Ph.D. in Economics, University College London, UK, 2011.
M.Sc. in Economics, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2003.
B.Sc. in Economics, University of São Paulo, Brazil, 2000.
Fields
Labor
Search
Applied Microeconometrics
Publications
The Value of Health Insurance: A Household Job Search Approach (with Gabriella Conti and Rita Ginja). Accepted at Journal of Labor Economics
IFS WP 18/20. IZA DP 11706. HCEO WP 2018-050. Most downloaded HCEO WP in August and September 2018.
Featured at the HCEO Research Spotlight. Link here.
Internal Migration and Labor Market Adjustments in Presence of Nonwage Compensation (with Raphael Corbi and Tiago Ferraz) . Journal of Development Economics, 177, 2025.
Labor Market Turnover and Inequality in Latin America (with Naercio Menezes-Filho). Oxford Open Economics, 4(Supplement 1), i349-i375, 2025.
Self-Employment in Developing Countries: A Search-Equilibrium Approach, Review of Economic Dynamics, 35, p. 1-34, 2020.
Wages and Informality in Developing Countries (with Costas Meghir and Jean Marc Robin), American Economic Review, 105(4), p. 1509-1546, 2015.
Unintended Consequences of Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from Stricter Eligibility Criteria in Brazil (with Cristiano Carvalho and Raphael Corbi). Economics Letters, 162, p. 157-161, 2018.
Teenage Motherhood, Education and Labour Market Outcomes of the Mother: Evidence from Brazilian Data (with Maria Dolores Montoya Diaz). EconomiA, 17(2), p. 238-252, 2016.
Expanding Microfinance in Brazil: Credit Utilization and Performance of Small Firms (with Emmanuel Skoufias and Phillippe Leite), Journal of Development Studies, 49(9), 2013.
Working papers
Payroll Tax, Employment and Labor Market Concentration (with Erick Baumgartner and Raphael Corbi) . R&R Labour Economics.
Featured at Foco Económico (link)
Women’s Careers, Care Constraints and Social Norms: The Role of Migrant Domestic Workers in Brazil (with Raphael Corbi, Tiago Ferraz and Delia Furtado) - Draft coming soon!
Labor Courts, Job Search and Employment: Evidence from a Labor Reform in Brazil (with Raphael Corbi, Rafael Ferreira and Danilo Souza)
Featured at CNN Business, Valor Econômico, UOL Economia, Crusoé
In Progress
Household Job Search and Labor Supply of Secondary Earners (with Solange Gonçalves and Naercio Menezes-Filho)
Job Quality and Enforcement of Mandated Benefits in Brazil (with Rita Almeida and Pedro Carneiro).
Publications in Portuguese
A Influência da Opção Religiosa na Acumulação de Capital Humano (with Francisco Anuatti), Estudos Econômicos, 34, p. 453-486, 2004.
Decomposição da Evolução da Desigualdade de Renda no Brasil em Efeitos Idade, Período e Coorte (with Sergio Firpo and Gustavo Gonzaga), Pesquisa e Planejamento Econômico, 33(2), 2003.
Instrução Superior e Mercado de Trabalho no Brasil (with Reynaldo Fernandes), Economia Aplicada, 5(1), p. 7-32, 2001.
Other papers
Does Access to Information Empower the Poor?: Evidence from the Dominican Republic (with Emmanuel Skoufias and Ambar Narayan), Policy Research Working Paper no. 6895, World Bank, 2014.
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