Research
Refereed Journal Articles
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)
Under Review
Liu, Cathy and Luísa Nazareno. State Responses During COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Impacts on Small Businesses. (R&R, Small Business Economics)
ABSTRACT. The unexpected outburst of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. in March 2020 hit small businesses across the country, triggering mass job losses and closures. Beyond the severity of the pandemic itself, policy responses adopted by state governments produce yet another set of changes in small business operating environments. This paper provides evidence of how small businesses experience these policy changes during the first months of the pandemic in terms of perceptions of the pandemic, adjustments in employment levels and employee schedule, as well as changes in overall self-employment using data from the Small Business Pulse Survey and the Current Population Survey. Policy variables include the Paycheck Protection Program, a State Orders database, and COVID-19 cases. We find that the PPP per firm on the state level has a strong positive impact in lessening firms’ negative perception, alleviating the need to downsize, and recovering self-employment activities. The lifting of shelter-in-place, non-essential business closures, and restaurant dine-in services restrictions all helped, though their impact were more modest than PPP. The PPP effect however was not significant for female owners and in some cases nonwhite owners, raising concern on the loan access of disadvantaged business groups.
ABSTRACT. As the platform economy offers new employment opportunities to workers, ridesharing gains popularity for its flexibility and low entry costs. While previous studies focused on high-income countries, the global nature of ridesharing suggests varying impacts across nations. This essay examines ridesharing's impact on Brazil, Uber's second-largest labour market globally, and a benchmark for middle-income countries. Specifically, it treats the staggered entry of Uber in Brazilian cities as an opportunity to describe changes in drivers’ demographic profiles and job outcomes compared to the other groups of workers. Results reveal a steady increase in the number of drivers, most of whom drive as a primary job and for long schedules. Such an increase was accompanied by reductions in payment, hours of work, and labour protection – trends not observed for the comparison groups. Together, these findings point to increased vulnerability of self-employed drivers and call for policy responses to ensure worker protection.
Nazareno, Luísa. Does Ridesharing Disproportionately Benefit Women? The Case of Brazil.
ABSTRACT. Ridesharing gained popularity as a flexible and readily available job option. In theory, ridesharing could disproportionately benefit women, who often seek flexible work to balance family responsibilities. Simultaneously, the driver occupation has been historically dominated by men, and women may need to overcome cultural barriers to take advantage of the ridesharing flexibility. However, limited research has focused on the gendered impacts of ridesharing on a large scale. This article takes advantage of the staggered entry of Uber in Brazilian cities to examine these impacts. The results show an increase in female drivers, although men still dominate the occupation. Household composition is a key variable to explain which women become drivers but has little impact on men. Urban violence remains a significant barrier, reducing the probability that women work as drivers. Gender gaps in hours of work and earnings have lowered over time, with men experiencing more significant reductions.
Policy Reports
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.
Working Papers
Nazareno, Luisa. 2022. Marginalized Populations and Technological Change: A Literature Review.
Nazareno, Luísa, and Justina Jose. 2021. The Effects of Broadband on Employment in Rural Areas: Evaluating the Connect America Fund Program.
In Preparation
Nazareno, Luísa. Preferences for Flexibility of Workers in Online Platforms: An Experimental Exploration. (IRB number: H22004)
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.
Books
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).