NOVAFRICA Seminar:
“Can Entertainment Media Undermine Dictatorships?”
On Thursday, October 6th, at 2.30pm, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Claudio Ferraz from PUC Rio to present his work. Authors: Claudio Ferraz (PUC Rio) ... Read More
2016 NOVAFRICA Conference on Economic Development in Africa
On the 14th and 15th of July, NOVAFRICA held a conference on innovations and challenges of economic development in Africa. The conference, in which renowned... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar:
“Eliciting Maternal Subjective Expectations about the Technology of Cognitive Skill Formation”
On Wednesday, June 22nd, at 2.30pm, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Flávio Cunha, from Rice University to present his work on maternal investments and early childhood development. Authors: Irma Elo... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar:
“Gender and Agency Within the Household: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan”
On Thursday, June 16th, at 4.00pm, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Marcel Fafchamps, from Stanford University to present his work on intra-household decision making and women empowerment in Pakistan.... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar:
“The War at Home: Long-Run Individual Level Origins of Domestic Violence”
On Wednesday, May 25th, at 2.30pm, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Tilman Brück, from the International Security and Development Center to present his work on the... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar:
” Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks”
On Wednesday, May 18th, at 11.00am, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Alice Mesnard, from the City University London to present her work on the effects of... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar:
“Secondary school as a contraceptive: almost experimental evidence from Burundi”
On Wednesday, 11 May, at 2.30 pm, the NOVAFRICA Center hosted Philip Verwimp of the Université Libre de Bruxelles to present his work on the... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar:
“Segregation, Diversity, and Intra-Party Competition in Ghana”
On Wednesday, April 27th, at 2.30pm, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Nahomi Ichino, from the University of Michigan to present her work on ethnic composition and... Read More
First NOVAFRICA PhD Workshop on Migration and Development
The 1st NOVAFRICA PhD Workshop on Migration and Development is organized by the NOVAFRICA knowledge center at the Nova School of Business and Economics to give doctoral students... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar:
“The Reliability and Validity of Skills Measurement in Rural Household Surveys”
On Wednesday, April 13th, at 2.30pm, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Karen Macours, from the Paris School of Economics to present her work on the reliability... Read More
