NOVAFRICA Podcast: Liquidity constraints and capital allocation in Uganda
Episode 4 of the 5th Season of the NOVAFRICA Sustainable Development Talks was recorded with Konrad Burchardi, from Stockholm School of Economics. Our guest talked about... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: NOVAFRICA publications in 2023
2023 was a productive year for NOVAFRICA researchers! Several articles were published in impactful journals about topics including political economy, international migration, natural resources, education,... Read More
NOVAFRICA Podcast: Do Gender-Neutral Job Ads Promote Diversity? Experimental Evidence from Latin America’s Tech Sector
Episode 3 of the 5th Season of the NOVAFRICA Sustainable Development Talks was recorded with Lucia del Carpio, from INSEAD. Our guest talked about her... Read More
NOVAFRICA Working Paper: Public Service Delivery, Exclusion and Externalities: Theory and Experimental Evidence from India
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series. Written by Alex Armand, Britta Augsburg, Antonella Bancalari, and Maitreesh Ghatak this... Read More
NOVAFRICA Podcast: How Are Gender Norms Perceived?
Episode 2 of the 5th Season of the NOVAFRICA Sustainable Development Talks was recorded with Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago. Our guest talked about his paper... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: Weiss Family Award to Mattia Fracchia
The Job Market paper of NOVAFRICA PhD candidate, Mattia Fracchia, was awarded the Weiss Family Distinguished Paper Award at The North East Universities Development Consortium... Read More
NOVAFRICA Publication: “Testing classic theories of migration in the lab” now out in the Journal of International Economics!
The paper “Testing classic theories of migration in the lab” by Catia Batista, NOVAFRICA scientific director, and David McKenzie, from the World Bank, is now... Read More
NOVAFRICA Podcast: The Incentives to (Not) Debate in Low Information Races
Episode 1 of the 5th Season of the NOVAFRICA Sustainable Development Talks was recorded with Katherine Casey from Stanford University. Our guest talked about her paper... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: Can organizations harness performance evidence to motivate workers?
Nova School of Business and Economics PhD candidate Mattia Fracchia addresses this question in a field experiment in Guinea-Bissau. His study finds that Workers revise... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: Full-time Predoc Research Assistant Opening
NOVAFRICA is recruiting a full-time PREDOC Research Assistant to work with Professor Cátia Batista. The selected candidate will be responsible for providing support in the... Read More