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    Life-Cycle Wage Premiums and STEM in Brazil
    (2022-07) Machado, Cecília; Rachter, Laísa; Stussi, Mariana; Schanaider, Fábio
    This paper estimates the life-cycle wage premiums of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) college graduates and STEM workers occupations in Brazil. Using data from the 2010 Brazilian Demographic Census, we find there is 12.2% premium associated to majoring in STEM fields. This premium is lower than the premium of traditional fields such as Medicine and Law as well as the premium associated with STEMdegrees observed in developed economies such as Canada and the US. We provide evidence that this is not connected to the premium to working in STEM occupations but rather to a poor transition from college to jobs in STEM occupations. Breaking the analysis by gender, we find the premium associated to majoring in STEM fields is similar for women and men. However, women are less likely to survive in STEM throughout the life cycle.
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    An immediate resource curse? The effect of oil discovery on Guyana's democratic trajectory
    (2025-12-20) Schmitt, João Pedro Conte
    This study investigates the recent oil boom in Guyana and its political ramifications. It questions whether the 2015 oil discovery had any effect on the country’s short-term democratic governance, thereby addressing a gap in the natural resource literature regarding the relationship between oil wealth and democracy, a relation that, while well-documented in the long term, remains ambiguous in the short term. To effectively isolate the impact of the discovery and ensure a precise estimation of the oil discovery effect, I employ the Synthetic Control Method (SCM) to construct a counterfactual trajectory for Guyana’s Liberal Democracy Index (LDI) ranging the period from 2006 to 2023. The analysis reveals that the oil discovery reduced Guyana’s LDI by 0.124 points, representing a decline of approximately 28% relative to the counterfactual scenario. This result was validated through placebo studies, indicating that the effect observed in Guyana is non-trivial and cannot be attributed to mere mathematical coincidence.
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    Futuro do ensino superior: adaptação e inovação nos caminhos educacionais: um guia para inspirar boas práticas
    (Hub de Inovação Pedagógica, 2025) Feferbaum, Marina; Radomysler, Clio Nudel; Pasqualeto, Olivia de Quintana Figueiredo; Camargo, Heloísa Salles; Nascimento, Jessica Cristina Souza do; Kirsztajn, Laura Mastroianni; Costa, Marco Antonio Silva
    Diante da intensidade e da velocidade das transformações que marcam o mundo contemporâneo, como as Instituições de Ensino Superior (IES) podem se adaptar para seguir relevantes e cumprir seu papel? A partir dessa pergunta, tão urgente quanto complexa, surgiu a pesquisa “Futuro do Ensino Superior: adaptação e inovação nos caminhos educacionais”1 , conduzida pelo Hub de Inovação Pedagógica da Fundação Getúlio Vargas (HIP/FGV)2 durante o ano de 2025. Este relatório reúne os resultados do terceiro eixo da pesquisa, cujo objetivo foi mapear recomendações e boas práticas capazes de contribuir para o enfrentamento dos desafios impostos pelas transformações contemporâneas às Instituições de Ensino Superior. Este relatório foi concebido como um guia aplicado para apoiar gestores, docentes, pesquisadores e demais interessados no tema. A partir da combinação entre evidências da literatura acadêmica recente e exemplos de iniciativas adotadas por universidades de excelência, buscamos oferecer um panorama consistente de práticas possíveis - porém não universais - para orientar processos de transformação nas IES.