1. Call open for the award of 1 Research Fellowship for a PhD student in Economics.
This fellowship is funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), under the R&D project 2024.13322.PEX “Preciso de uma casa: a crise na habitação, desigualdade, imigração e políticas públicas” (Gimme Shelter: the housing crisis, inequality, immigration and public policies) of
ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management.
2. The fellowship will be awarded for 6 months, with an expected start date of 01/01/2027. The fellowship contract may be renewed for up to a maximum of 6 months, within the eligibility period of the project.
3. The fellowship activities will be carried out at
ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management, under the scientific supervision of Prof. João Pereira dos Santos, Assistant Professor with Habilitation (Professor Auxiliar com Agregação).
4. Fellowship Activities Plan: The fellowship holder will support applied research activities in urban, public and labour economics, including: organising, cleaning and validating databases;
preparing descriptive statistics and simple visualisations;
brief reviews of the literature and of data sources;
estimating and interpreting econometric models;
documenting analysis procedures;
preparing reproducible outputs;
and supporting the preparation of reports, presentations and other scientific materials associated with the project.
The project will use little-studied policy reforms implemented over the last 12 years as a quasi-natural laboratory to assess causal impacts, using state-of-the-art econometric techniques such as regression discontinuity, difference-in-differences, bunching and instrumental variables.
A randomised controlled trial involving priming and information-provision experiments will also be developed, and the results will be complemented with text analysis.
The fellowship holder must submit, within 60 working days after the end of the fellowship, a final report in electronic format describing the activities carried out and the results obtained, accompanied by the opinion of the supervisor(s).
The report must be sent to .
The final report will be evaluated by the supervisor according to the following criteria: - quality of the work carried out – 70%;
- results achieved (working paper) – 20%;
- ability to integrate and adapt, and compliance with deadlines – 10%.
The criteria scores and the final score will be presented on a scale from 0 to 20. 5. Application submission Applications must be sent by email to and must include the following documents: - application form (see template at );
- curriculum vitae;
- degree certificate (if you do not have this document, you must send a signed Declaration of Honor - see template at );
- proof of enrolment in the PhD programme (study cycle) to which this call refers;
- published papers or other materials relevant to the application.
The application and all documents can be written in Portuguese or English.
No document that should have been submitted in the application can be presented after the deadline specified in this notice.
Documents proving the possession of academic degrees and diplomas, or their recognition when awarded by foreign higher education institutions, can be waived at the application stage, being replaced by a declaration of honor from the applicant, with verification of this condition occurring only at the fellowship contract stage.
At the application stage, it will be sufficient for applicants to prove that they meet the necessary conditions to enroll in the study cycles leading to the attainment of the requested academic degree or in non-degree courses.
At the contract stage, proof of enrollment will be required.