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
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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
NOVAFRICA Seminar “Political Voice and Prosociality: evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in Uganda”
On Wednesday, November 6, at 02.30 pm, Ana Garcia-Hernandez from Nova School of Business and Economics will present her job market paper on the impact of... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar: “Why do People Migrate Irregularly? Evidence from a Lab in the Field Experiment in West Africa”
On Wednesday, October 30, at 02.30 pm, Tijan L. Bah from Nova School of Business and Economics will present his job market paper on the determinants... Read More
NOVAFRICA news: Kenyan delegation visits NOVAFRICA
NOVAFRICA received a delegation from the Kenyan Government at Nova SBE on October 23, 2019. The Deputy Governor of Mombassa, William K. Kingi, and Innocent... Read More