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The impact of financial education

New evidence shows that financial education makes a difference for firm performance. Assistant professor Diogo Mendes, Nova SBE Alumnus, recent experiment in Mozambique gives new insight that can be especially useful for developing countries.

Marketing and Sales

Beyond Bias: The Difference Diversity Makes in Online Advertising

Did you know that 7 out of 10 people don’t feel ads represent the world around them and 3 in 5 don’t see themselves represented in ads at all? Or that 64% of people feel advertisers don’t do enough to eliminate sexist gender roles?* Nova SBE Alumnus Margarida Cunha, Strategic Account Manager at Facebook, explores this further.

The economics of mental health: from risk factors to financing

In her PhD thesis, Maria Ana Matias investigates the economics of mental health focusing on three dimensions: financing and services organisation, medication adherence, and socio-economic determinants.

Essays on job and unemployment protection: the impacts on unemployment duration, wages, and fertility

In her PhD thesis, Marta Lopes analyses the impact of job and unemployment protection on unemployment duration, wages, and fertility.

Reforming local governance: fiscal federalism and political accountability

In her PhD thesis, Ana Catarina Alvarez explores three reforms implemented in Portugal to obtain causal inference about the manifold impacts of the rules that shape local government behavior.

Africa & Development

Technology transfer in rice crop in Mozambique: from research to farmers

Adoption and diffusion of agricultural inputs are the stimuli for boosting yields and improve food security and nutrition in households in Mozambique. In his PhD thesis, Paulo Guilherme focuses on finding out the rice technology transfer setbacks, investigating rates of adoption and reasons for the low adoption in farmers and proposing measures for effective dissemination.

Essays on the impacts of credit ratings

In his PhD thesis, Mário Meira examines the impact of credit ratings across several dimensions.

Corporate Taxation: Evasion, Incentives, and the Shadow Economy

In her PhD thesis, Risa Pavia examines two elements of firm behavior with respect to taxation: efforts to reduce tax liability, and responses to incentives in the tax code.

Leadership & People

Aging at work: The interplay of resources and self-regulation strategies across the work lifespan

The aging of the population is considered one of the most significant challenges facing Europe. For organizations, the main impact is on how to maintain this increasingly age-diverse workforce healthy, productive and engaged over time. In her PhD tesis, Filipa Marques investigates how workers better adapt to work during the process of aging.

Africa & Development

Essays in development economics and gender

Women’s empowerment and economic development are closely interrelated. In her PhD thesis, Ana Garcia Hernandez uses data from field and lab-in-the-field experiments in Uganda and Zambia to explore the effects of women's empowerment on education and political outcomes .

Sustainability

A Plastic Island and Habits With No Turning Back… Or Will They?

The evidence of a growing problem that we persisted in ignoring has led to the growth of several measures and initiatives for 18 months, which is starting to change the statu quo. I am referring to marine litter. Luís Veiga Martins, Nova SBE's Chief Sustainability Officer, explores this further.

Conjectures About Sharing Resources: what can we learn from physicians’ marketplace?

Physicians show how is possible to learn and improve reputation records when resources are shared, but we need to care about some hidden perverse incentives.

Digital & Technology

Explorations of the future of work inspired by Blade Runner

Can Maslow have anything to say about the role of human workers in a robotized society?

Education

How can we bring innovation to the Higher Education system?

If we want to bring innovation to higher education we need to provide a multidisciplinary curricula that fosters creativity and dialogue before teaching how to deal with new technologies.

Digital & Technology

Automation and the future of work. Portugal, brace yourself for a new age of discovery

Automation presents challenges for Portugal, but also opportunities. The role of universities in preparing students for the automated future of work. Assistant Professor João Duarte explores this topics.

No to fake news, yes to scientific evidence

It is important to recognize the potential of technology in the contribution it can make to increase health literacy. However, as with the news, one must look at the source of the content and say: no to fake news, yes to scientific evidence.

Leadership & People

Mirai, a future of mutual understanding

MIRAI stands for Mutual-understanding, Intellectual Relations, and Academic exchange Initiative, being also the Japanese word for future, which appropriately reflects the impact of this program. It allows us to have a full and holistic perspective of Japan and provides the opportunity to interact and share experiences with young leaders of the future.

Leadership & People

Leading & Studying — A two-way street

What determines what we will achieve in the future is intrinsically connected to the effort, the focus, and the determination we commit while pursuing our goals. Dreaming may create the destination, but it is the work we do and the people that surround us that definitely establish the path

Africa & Development

Is mobile money changing the rural landscape? Evidence from Mozambique

The introduction of mobile money promoted migration out of rural areas by easing long-distance transfers and increasing resilience. Professors Cátia Batista and Pedro Vicente, Founders and Scientific Directors of Nova SBE NOVAFRICA Knowledge Center, recently reflected on mobile money as an opportunity for financial inclusion.

Elderly Fraud Research

Nova SBE Behavioral Lab's research program tackles two important questions: Are older people more likely to be chosen as targets of fraud? And are they in fact, more likely to succumb to fraud, if targeted?

Conquering Cancer: Mission Impossible

Pedro Pita Barros, Nova SBE Health Economics & Management KC Scientific Director, is a member of the Mission Board for EU Mission on Cancer, developed under the Horizon Europe Framework Programme for Research and Innovation with an ambitious goal: “By 2030, more than 3 million lives saved, living longer and better”.

Does the Past Have a Future? A Study About the Impact of National Health-Care Services on Traditional Medicine in Indonesia

Researchers from Nova SBE Health Economics & Management Knowledge Center explore the impact of the increase in healthcare services provision on the demand for traditional practitioners in Indonesia.