NOVAFRICA News: 2019 in review
Using economics to contribute to a better world has been NOVAFRICA’s mission. 2019 was a powerful year for our knowledge center with important impact... Read More
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NOVAFRICA Job Market Candidates 2019/2020
NOVAFRICA presents its Job Market Candidates 2019/2020. The five researchers work on different areas of economic development in Africa. Click here to be taken to... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: cooperation agreement signed with FurtherAfrica
NOVAFRICA contents will be released on news platform! NOVAFRICA signed a cooperation protocol with FurtherAfrica, an international online platform centralizing news and content focusing on... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: congratulations to Alex Armand
Congratulations to NOVAFRICA Professor Alex Armand for his new article forthcoming in the American Economic Review. This work shows how media can help mitigating violent... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: congratulations to Julia Seither
Julia Seither, NOVAFRICA alumna, has been awarded one of the Best Ph.D. Dissertations in the Ph.D in Economics | Finance Program in the academic year... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar “Incentivizing Community Health Workers in Guinea-Bissau: Experimental Evidence on Social Status and Intrinsic Motivation”
On Wednesday, December 11, at 02.30 pm, Teresa Molina Millán from Nova School of Business and Economics will present her job market paper about the impact... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: Project on irregular migration featured in Spain
Irregular migrants that come to Europe through the sea on average expect that their chances of survival are 50%, even so they choose to do... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar “Diffusion of Rival Information in the Field”
On Wednesday, December 4, at 02.30 pm, Inês Vilela from Nova School of Business and Economics will present her job market paper about the effect of... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: Aga Khan University visited NOVAFRICA
Fight against poverty is our common purpose! The NOVAFRICA Knowledge Center welcomed the President of the Aga Khan University, Firoz Rasul, in NOVA SBE’s campus.... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar “From Learning to Doing: Diffusion of Agricultural Innovations in Guinea-Bissau”
On Wednesday, November 27, at 02.30 pm, Rute Martins Caeiro from Nova School of Business and Economics will present her job market paper on the pathways of... Read More
NOVAFRICA Working Paper: “Aspirations, Expectations, Identities: Behavioral Constraints of Micro-Entrepreneurs”
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Papers Series. Written by Catia Batista and Julia Seither, this paper experimentally evaluates an... Read More
NOVAFRICA in the News
The NOVAFRICA Knowledge Center has been under the spotlight following the award of the Nobel Prize of Economics 2019. The winners, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo... Read More
Congratulations to Tijan L. Bah for his PhD
The NOVAFRICA researcher Tijan L. Bah received his official PhD hold on October 23 for his doctoral work “Essays in International Migration”. The PHD graduation... Read More