Luis C. Nunes

Luis C. Nunes is a Professor at the Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE), part of Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal. His academic work spans multiple disciplines within economics, with a particular focus on education policy, environmental economics, and public policy analysis. He maintains an active research profile with numerous publications in leading working paper series.

Professor Nunes' research interests primarily center on education economics, where he has conducted extensive studies on student achievement, class composition effects, educational inequality, and school policy impacts. His environmental economics work focuses on ecosystem services valuation, particularly in the Portuguese context, examining land-based and marine ecosystem services through spatially explicit approaches. He also has significant contributions to econometric methodology, particularly in contingent valuation techniques and addressing sampling issues in large-scale educational assessments like PISA.

His recent publications demonstrate a consistent focus on Portuguese educational systems, with increasing attention to immigrant student performance, territorial patterns in education, and the effects of policy interventions. His environmental work has expanded to include climate-related impacts such as wildfires on tourism and payment mechanisms for ecosystem protection. Methodologically, he frequently employs advanced econometric techniques including latent class models and structural break analyses.

Professor Nunes has established a robust collaborative network, frequently working with colleagues at Nova SBE including Ana Balcão Reis, Carmo Seabra, and Maria Antonieta Cunha-e-Sa, as well as researchers from other Portuguese institutions. His work often addresses policy-relevant questions with direct implications for Portuguese and European educational and environmental policies.

His research has been disseminated through the Nova SBE Working Paper Series and FEUNL Working Paper Series, with 21 scholarly papers accumulating over 1,800 downloads and 14 total citations according to SSRN metrics. His most recent work continues to explore teacher allocation systems and the impact of discriminatory policies on education gaps, demonstrating ongoing scholarly productivity.