NOVAFRICA Working Paper: It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman fighting Intolerance
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series. Written by Alex Armand, Paul Atwell, Joseph F. Gomes, and Yannik Schenk... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: NOVAFRICA discussed World Bank’s Migration World Development Report 2023
Yesterday was presented and discussed in Lisbon the World Bank’s World Development Report 2023 focused on Migration. NOVAFRICA scientific director, Professor Cátia Batista, professor at... Read More
NOVAFRICA Podcast: What We Do in the Shadows: How Urban Density Facilitates Information Diffusion
Episode 13 of the 4th Season of the NOVAFRICA Sustainable Development Talks was recorded with Professor Evan Plous Kresch, from the Oberlin College. Our guest... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: Catia Batista and Pedro Vicente published in the Review of Economics and Statistics
The paper “Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment” written by NOVAFRICA scientific directors Cátia Batista and Pedro C. Vicente is... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: NOVAFRICA Predoc Lara Bohnet received FFMS best thesis award
The Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos awarded Lara Bohnet, former NOVAFRICA predoc and Nova SBE student, with a prize for her master in economics thesis.... Read More
NOVAFRICA Podcast: Making policies matter: Voter responses to campaign promises
Episode 12 of the 4th Season of the NOVAFRICA Sustainable Development Talks was recorded with Professor Julien Labonne, from the University of Oxford. Our guest... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: NOVAFRICA students in the spotlight
Last week five students from the NOVAFRICA Student Group presented their thesis research projects. Their theses pressed topics in development economics such as international migration,... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: NOVAFRICA at the Sustainable Value Creation Summit
Last week, NOVAFRICA‘s scientific director, Pedro Vicente, and PhD student, Mattia Fracchia, participated in a dynamic panel discussion on value creation in Guinea-Bissau at the... Read More
NOVAFRICA Podcast: Targeting Social Assistance with Machine Learning
Listen to the fourth series of the “NOVAFRICA Sustainable Development Talks” Podcast. This series of audio talks about economic development in Africa brings together experts... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar: Where Do My Tax Dollars Go? Tax Morale Effects of Perceived Government Spending
On Wednesday, May 29 th, at 11Am (Lisbon time), on Room B 133 the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Ricardo Perez-Truglia from UC Berkeley – Haas School... Read More