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ISSUE #05, May 2023

Research E-News

We want to change the world and we will do it with the right people.


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Antonieta Cunha e Sá wins a European Comission Grant 

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Antonieta Cunha e Sá won a Grant funded by the European Commission [European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF)], as a partner of Universidade de Aveiro, with the project Women in blue economy intelligence gathering and capacity boosting – coordinated by Helena Vieira (Universidade de Aveiro). With this project Nova SBE receives €71,968.84.

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Nova SBE launched Road to Impact Report

Nova SBE has officially launched the fourth edition of the Nova SBE Road to Impact Report, a document that aggregates the school's sustainability path during the last year, fully aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals. The report merges with the Research Report, which compiles the most relevant research projects and studies developed by the school's knowledge centers, and also describes how the school is engaging with its community and educating active and proactive citizens while leading the journey into a sustainable school. You can get to know more than 300 projects, studies, and other initiatives developed and implemented by Nova SBE in 2022.

Spotlight

Donges, A., Meier, J-M., & Silva, R. C. (2023). The impact of institutions on innovation. Management Science, 69(4), 1935-2545.

Shymko, Y., Roulet, T. J., & Pimentel, B. D. M. (2023). The façade, the face, and the sympathies: Opening the black box of symbolic capital as a source of philanthropic attractiveness. Organization Science, 34(2), 870-893.

Addison, J. T., Portugal, P., & de Almeida Vilares, H. (2023). Union membership density and wages: the role of worker, firm, and job-title heterogeneity. Journal of Econometrics, 233(2), 612-632.

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Carneiro, A., Portugal, P., Raposo, P., & Rodrigues, P. M. M. (2023). The persistence of wages. Journal of Econometrics, 233(2), 596-611.

Publications

  • Pereira, D. T., Moury, C., & Barros, P. P. (2023). Business as usual? How the pharmaceutical industry protected its long-term interests during and after eurozone bailouts (2011–2020). Political Research Exchange, 5(1), [2193622].

  • Westerberg, C., & Martinez, L. F. (2023). Young german consumers’ perspectives of rental fashion platforms. Young Consumers, 24(3), 309-330.

  • Nunes, C., Carvalho, B., Pereira dos Santos, J., Peralta, S., & Tavares, J. (2023). Failing young and temporary workers? The impact of a disruptive crisis on a dual labour market. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 23(2), 349-395.

  • Barros, P. P. (2023). Pandemia, saúde e proteção: O que nos diz o Health at a Glance 2022? Acta Medica Portuguesa, 36(4), 227-228. https://doi.org/10.20344/amp.19770

  • Nicolau, J., Raposo, P., & Rodrigues, P. M. M. (2023). Measuring wage inequality under right censoring. Economic Inquiry, 61(2), 377-401.

  • Palma, N., Reis, J., & Rodrigues, L. (2023). Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development: Evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900. Explorations in Economic History, 88, [101481].

Achievements

  • Eduardo Costa elected president of the APES

    Eduardo Costa was elected president of the Associação Portuguesa de Economia da Saúde (APES) for the next two years. The work plan for the next biennium includes strength the link between APES and its own associates, individual and institutional, taking advantage of the diversity of experiences, knowledge, geographies and skills in the various areas of Health Economics. It also intends to strengthen relationships with non-academic audiences, including health system agents, and with areas of knowledge bordering on Health Economics.

  • Nova SBE congratulates PhD student

    Nova SBE congratulates the Economics PhD student Carolina Borges da Cunha Santos on successfully defending her doctoral thesis “Competition and Regulation in the Pharmaceutical Market” which had Pedro Pita Barros supervision.

  • Nova SBE part of Procuradoria-Geral da República Think Tank

    Nova SBE, represented by Nova SBE Data Science Knowledge Center, is a member of a Think Tank developed by Procuradoria-Geral da República, on the risk of fraud on European Union financial resources. Find out more about the project here.

Researchers on Media

Ana Balcão Reis, Cátia Batista, Pedro Oliveira

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Ana Balcão Reis, Cátia Batista, and Pedro Oliveira, were interviewed by The Local on what international students need to know about ChatGPT. The professors agreed that universities need to adapt themselves to this technology, taking advantage of its benefits, and preparing students for it.

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Cátia Batista was on Fontes Bem Informadas (CNN) to comment on ChatGPT, its dangers and virtues. She stated that ChatGPT is a “phenomenon of very rapid technological evolution with challenges that arise” and “a tool that helps us improve irreplaceable human characteristics”.

João Castro

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João Castro was invited to an episode of the Da Capa à Contracapa (Rádio Renascença podcast) to debate the topic “How will artificial intelligence change our lives?”. He is “an optimist regarding the possibilities that this technology holds” but that “it is important to take into consideration how fast these changes are introduced” in the society, with education as an example.

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João Duarte

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In the context of European funds and the Portugal 2030 program, João Duarte spoke to Jornal de Negócios. About the past access to European funds in Portugal, he stated that “There has been a regional convergence within the country, where the poorest municipalities have moved closer to the most developed ones. Without the funds, the poorest municipalities would have been further away from the richest”.

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José Tavares

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The essay “25 de Abril: os últimos portugueses iguais a nós e a geração que vai reinventar Portugal”, by José Tavares, was published in Revista E (Expresso). In this essay, he approaches the state of the country in the decades after the revolution of 1974 and concludes that now, almost 50 years after, is the time to free it from the past and tie it to the future.

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Leid Zejnilovic

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Leid Zejnilovic was interviewed by RTP for the program Muda num minuto about the benefits of digital calendars. He mentioned that, in a world always gaining speed, “digital calendars help valuing time and doing things in a more professional and reliable way”.

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Luís Catela Nunes

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Luís Catela Nunes was mentioned in several media, such as TVI, CNN, Visão, SIC Notícias, Sábado, TSF, among others. He criticized the lack of studies on the impact of the pandemic on learning, saying that “it is important to know where we are”.

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Miguel Ferreira

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Miguel Ferreira gave an interview to Jornal de Negócios where he spoke about sustainability, stating that “young workers are willing to sacrifice wages to work in companies that have a more sustainable business model”. In another interview to Jornal de Negócios, he commented on the Anti-ESG movement. Furthermore, he was invited to an episode of the Conversas com CEO (Jornal de Negócios podcast).

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Nova SBE Impact Report

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The 2022 Nova SBE Impact Report was recently published. The document, mentioned in Dinheiro Vivo, Jornal de Negócios, and Jornal Económico, among others, aggregates all the activities of the school in the past year, with a focus on research projects and developed initiatives towards sustainability.

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Pedro Brinca

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Pedro Brinca spoke to TVI, Antena 1, CNN about the Zero VAT policy implemented by the Portuguese government. He also discussed the house market crisis in an episode of the Money Money Money (Expresso podcast) and in a debate organized by Expresso and SIC Notícias. He was also interviewed by RTP, CNN, ECO and TVI on degrowth and the GDP for Portugal and the GDP as economic measure. To SIC Notícias and RTP he commented on the mid-year increase in pensions, and on CNN about the possibility of a single currency common to the BRICS (Brasil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). On TVI he talked about the 12 years since the Portuguese bailout request. He was still invited by CNN to discuss wages and inflation, and by TVI to comment on the stability program presented by the government, and spoke to Expresso about Portugal's entry into the European Economic Community.

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Pedro Freitas

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Pedro Freitas was invited by TVI to comment on the teacher’s strike and its consequences, in the program Esta Manhã. He was also present in one episode of the TSF program Educar tem Ciência about teacher training, where he pointed out that “about 40% of current teachers will retire by 2030”.

Pedro Oliveira

Pedro Oliveira gave an interview to Público, where he answered several questions about the present and the future of Nova SBE, revealing the will to create a public policy institute in the school. He was also on the Muda num minuto program (RTP), to speak about ChatGPT, and was interviewed by Jornal de Negócios about the creation of CIFAL global network.

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Pedro Pita Barros

Pedro Pita Barros spoke to ECO and was mentioned in CNN, in the context of the recent news concerning the National Health Service board operating for more than three months without bylaws. He said that “an effort of operational coordination has been made in the area of urgencies (above all), and it is still too early to know the success of the measures adopted”.

Social Leapfrog Program

Nova SBE has opened registrations for the fourth edition of the Social Leapfrog Program. The reflection and capacitation program for hybrid social organizations is part of the Social Equity Initiative and was mentioned in the newspaper Vida Económica.

Susana Peralta

Susana Peralta gave an interview to Sábado, where she commented on the 0% VAT implemented by the portuguese government. She was also invited to the Expresso da Manhã (Expresso podcast) to talk about the portuguese academic environment. Furthermore, she continues to have a regular presence at the Fora do Baralho (Observador podcast).

Sustainable Value Creation Summit

The Sustainable Value Creation Summit (SVCS), an international event that gathers stakeholders and leaders, with initiatives that aim for a reflection on how to create value in sustainability (Nova SBE, from May 23 to 26) was mentioned in several media, such as Executive Digest, Link to Leaders, and Human.

Researchers Corner

Too young to quit school? Increasing the Compulsory Schooling Leaving age and students’ educational paths

Reducing early school leaving, defined as leaving education with at most lower secondary schooling, is generally considered to be one of the top priorities of educational policy due to its significant social and individual costs. Increasing the Compulsory Schooling Law (CSL) leaving age is a policy that has historically been applied to address this concern. However, evidence on its effectiveness is still not clear — it could be that upper-secondary school graduation rates increase following the reform, but also that students simply stay longer in school, without graduation probabilities being affected. In my PhD Job Market Paper, I study the effects of the increase in the CSL leaving age from 15 to 18 years old, that happened in Portugal in 2009.

I analyse the effects of this policy exploiting the fact that grade-retention, a common practice in Portugal, in the 7th grade in 2009 serves as quasi-natural variation in exposure to the  reform, in a Difference-in-Differences setting. I find that affected students are around 3 percentage points more likely to stay in school until 18 years old (or graduate), that is, complying with the new CSL. However, I also find that graduation probabilities did not change, on average. Nevertheless, the effect on the compliance probability is driven by lower-achieving students and I find positive graduation effects for some lower-achieving sub-groups of students — namely boys, and those that enrolled in secondary schooling, who are now 5 to 6 percentage points more likely to graduate upper-secondary school. Furthermore, results suggest that the effectiveness of CSL increases may depend on other policies taken to prevent early school leaving such as better guidance and support to at-risk students.

Overall, results suggest that CSL increases can have widely heterogeneous effects — while they are unlikely to change the educational paths of students coming from higher socioeconomic backgrounds or with higher prior academic achievement, they can have meaningful impacts on more disadvantaged students. These findings are of are of particular policy-relevance for governments considering raising their CSL and want to understand what effects this large-scale policy may have, and on what kind of students.


Afonso Câmara Leme, Researcher at Nova SBE Economics of Education Knowledge Center 

Opinion Articles

Events

  • Social Innovator Residence

    A new edition of the Social Innovator in Residence took place. This time Anne-Laure Fayard invited Isaac Jumba, the founder of Mideva Labs and a co-founder of Idea Studio Africa. Isaac has 8 years of experience working in the design, social innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem across Africa, and supporting initiatives around the world, including working with OpenIDEO.
    During his stay, he facilitated the Workshop of Business Design for Social Innovators. Innovator in Residence is a program by DESIS Lab at Nova SBE, part of the ERA Chair in Social Innovation. Anne-Laure Fayard was also a speaker on the session : Debunking Myths about the Future of Work in the ESSEC Business School’s Science & Society Conference 2023.

  • Economia Viva

    Pedro Oliveira and Pedro Brinca participated in "Economia Viva" organised by Nova SBE from NEC & the SU, that brought together an amazing panel of speakers. Pedro Oliveira was also at the launch of the Nova SBE Alumni Chapter in Barcelona and to toast in appreciation for the dedication of these alumni to our school.

  • Mattia Fracchia and NOVAFRICA at Brotéria

    PhD Student Mattia Fracchia represented Nova SBE and NOVAFRICA at a talk at Brotéria. He spoke about "Information Design to Improve Service Delivery: Experimental Evidence from Community Health Workers in Guinea-Bissau".

  • Pedro Freitas in round table at Aveiro University

    Pedro Freitas participated in the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the III Congresso da Oposição Democrática - Comissão Comemorativa 50 anos 25 de Abril, at Aveiro University. His participation will be in the Round Table "Thinking about tomorrow: writing the future in the light of the Third Congress of the Democratic Opposition" and he will speak on the theme "Education and inequality".

  • Luís Catela Nunes at DGEEC Statistical Forum

    Luís Catela Nunes gave a presentation at Direção-Geral de Estatísticas da Educação e Ciência (DGEEC)'s 81st Statistical Forum on the topic of School Equity and Inequality. In this event were presented news from the InfoEscolas portal and various indicators relevant to knowledge of the educational system.

  • Liliana Dinis was a speaker at Global Family Business Summit

    Liliana Dinis, PhD Candidate at Nova SBE, was a speaker at the 2023 Global Family Business Summit in Valencia, an innovative research-practice platform for family business scholars and family business enthusiasts, organized by the STEP Project Global Consortium (SPGC) and the Chair of Family Business of the University of Valencia.

Other News

  • Nova SBE at the EARMA Conference

    The Faculty & Research team represented Nova SBE in Prague at EARMA (European Association of Research Managers and Administrators Conference). From April 24 to 26, the topic of Widening and Deepening of the Research Managers and Administrators (RMA) Profession was discussed. The conference also featured a presentation by Sofia Vala, Executive Director for Faculty and Research, on Managing Research Or Managing Researchers?


  • School Council faculty announced

    We are please to announce our faculty in the School Council at Nova SBE, which approves the strategic plan and oversees crucial strategic decisions. They are: António Nogueira Leite, Irene Consiglio, Luís Almeida e Costa, Melissa Prado, Pedro Neves, Pedro Pita Barros, Pedro Vicente and Rui Silva. The School Council also has a student representative, and five distinguished external members from various societal positions.

Good to know

NOVA launches Research Impact Narratives challenge

NOVA recently launched the Research Impact Narratives challenge to the NOVA research community. With this challenge, it is intended that researchers from the various Organic Units of NOVA communicate the impact of their research projects, based on the writing of impact narratives. In addition to prizes for the best narratives, the initiative includes webinars/workshops to support writing and other useful materials. The objective is to provide all NOVA professors and researchers with the possibility of writing narratives that communicate the real impact of their research and its direct consequences for society, so that everyone can understand it. See more information about the challenge here and submit your application by June 9, 2023.

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