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NOVAFRICA News: 2024 PhD Summer School on Development Economics

Nova SBE is offering the PhD Summer School on Development Economics to students and professionals who wish to advance their curriculum and knowledge. The PhD Summer School will be taught by David McKenzie (World Bank) on “Practical issues in designing and analyzing field experiments”. The 2024 edition will be held in person. The course is credit-bearing (ECTS), and it will be conducted in English.

The PhD Summer School is organized by Cátia Batista (Professor of Economics at Nova SBE and NOVAFRICA Scientific Director) and Laura Malinverno (Nova SBE, Head of PhD Programs).

Course essentials:

  • Practical issues in designing and analyzing field experiments;
  • June 24-26, 2024 (mornings);
  • Instructor: David McKenzie, World Bank;
  • Course ECTS: 3;
  • Tuition fee: EUR650;
  • Application time: March 1 to March 31.

To learn more and apply to the PhD Summer school see here.

The PhD Summer School is a Pre-event to the 2024 NOVAFRICA Conference on Economic Development. This is an international conference in the field of development economics which, over the course of two days,  brings together leading academics and policy makers from all over the world. Several relevant topics of the latest research and the real challenges of current politics are shared and discussed, creating bridges that are intended to have a positive impact on development.

This year, the 2024 NOVAFRICA Conference on Economic Development will feature Seema Jayachandran, from Princeton University, David McKenzie, from the World Bank, and Christopher Udry, from Northwestern University, as Keynote speakers.

Learn more about the conference here.