Research

Refereed Journal Articles

• Nazareno, Luísa. The Impacts of Ridesharing in Middle-Income Countries: Theoretical Expectations and Evidence from Brazil.  (in press in International Labour Review)

• Ravenelle, Alexandrea,  Luísa Nazareno, and Yue Zhang. 2026. “Who Gets Caught in the Net? The Expanded Safety Net during Covid-19 and Precarious Workers.” Labor Studies Journal (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0160449X261435181)

• Nazareno, Luísa, Justina Jose, and Grady Hart. 2025. Wired and Working? A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of Broadband Expansion in Rural America. Telecommunications Policy. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103074)

• Nazareno, Luísa. 2025. The Gendered Impacts of Ridesharing in Brazil. Journal of Industrial Relations (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00221856241303769)

• Liu, Cathy and Luísa Nazareno. 2024. State Responses During COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Impacts on Small Businesses. Small Business Economics. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-024-00923-1) 

• Churkina, Olga, Luísa Nazareno, and Matteo Zullo. 2023. The Labor Market Outcomes of Bilinguals in the United States: Accumulation and Returns Effects. PLOS One (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287711) [Replication files] 

• Nazareno, Luísa, and Juliana de Castro Galvao. 2023. The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Poverty, Inequality and Employment During COVID-19: A Case Study from Brazil. Population Research and Policy Review (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-023-09749-3)

• Nazareno, Luísa, Ellen Zegura, and Cathy Yang Liu. 2022. Changes in Mobile Broadband Infrastructure in Georgia during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Information Policy  (https://doi.org/10.5325/jinfopoli.12.2022.0007)  

• Nazareno, Luísa, and Cathy Yang Liu. 2022. The Geography of Nonstandard Employment across U.S. Metropolitan Areas. Journal of Urban Affairs (DOI: doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2022.2053331 )

• Nazareno, Luísa, and Daniel Schiff. 2021. The Impact of Automation and Artificial Intelligence on Worker Well-Being. Technology in Society, 67. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101679 ) [Replication files] 

• Liu, Cathy Yang, and Luísa Nazareno. 2019. The Changing Quality of Nonstandard Work Arrangements: Does Skill Matter? RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 5 (4). 104:128. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.4.04)

• Marcelo, Medeiros, Juliana De Castro Galvao, and Luísa Nazareno. 2018. Correcting the Underestimation of Top Incomes: Combining Data from Income Tax Reports and the Brazilian 2010 Census. Social Indicators Research 135 (1): 233-44. Springer, Netherlands. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-016-1498-8)

• Nazareno, Luísa. 2016. Bolsa Familia Program and the Informal Labor Market: An Impact Analysis of Brazil Carinhoso Policy. Economia Aplicada 20 (4) 457-71. University of São Paulo. (In Portuguese) (DOI: https://doi.org/10.11606/1413-8050/ea153891)

• Nazareno, Luísa, and Ana Maria Nogales Vasconcelos. 2015. Conditional Cash Transfers: Origins, Theoretical Foundations, and Recent Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa. Boletim de Economia e Política International. No. 19: 75-86. Institute for Applied Economic Research. (In Portuguese) (ISSN: 2176-9915)

Policy Reports, Working Papers & Books

• Nazareno, Luísa, and Nakeina E. Douglas-Glenn. 2025. Six Years of Proposed AI Legislation Across the US States: What's on Policymakers' Minds? Research Institute for Social Equity.

• Nazareno, Luisa, and Robert Bruno. 2023. AI and the Future of Work in Illinois: An Assessment of Workers at Risk by Automated Technologies. Project for Middle Class Renewal.

• Nazareno, Luisa. 2022. Marginalized Populations and Technological Change: A Literature Review. 

• Lima, João Brigido Bezerra, Fernanda Patricia Fuentes Muñoz, Luísa Nazareno, and Nemo Amaral. 2017. The Sociodemographic Profile of the Refugees in Brazil (1998-2014). 1st ed. Brasilia: Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea). (In Portuguese).

In Preparation

• Nazareno, Luísa and Angelino Viceisza. Do Cash Transfers Crowd-out Remittances?

• De Castro Galvao, Juliana, Luísa Nazareno, and Luis Monroy Gomez-Franco. Missing Mothers: The Impact of Excluding Mothers' Socioeconomic Standing on Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility.

• Nazareno, Luísa, Daniel S. Schiff, and Victor Amuzu. “Predicting Impact of AI on Workers: A Systematic Review.”