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, health and many more. See below alist of some of our articles published in 2023: Measuring corruption in the field using behavioral games by Alex Armand Alexander Coutts, Pedro Vicente... 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 paper entitled “Do Gender-Neutral Job Ads Promote Diversity? Experimental Evidence from Latin America’s Tech Sector “. Abstract: Gendered-grammar languages like Spanish are spoken by 39% of the world’s population. In... 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 paper analyses the interaction between the quality of public services, the implementation of user fees, and the resulting potential for exclusion, that can lead to negative externalities. Title: Public Service... 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 entitled “How Are Gender Norms Perceived?”. Abstract: Actual and perceived gender norms are key to understanding gender inequality in society. In this paper, using newly collected nationally representative datasets from... 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 Annual Conference, hosted by Harvard University Centre for International Development. His outstanding work, was chosen from 728 submissions. Entitle “Does Performance Evidence Motivate? A FieldExperiment in Guinea-Bissau’s Health Sector”, this... 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 published in the Journal of International Economics. The paper uses incentivized lab experiments to test migration theories. Experimental subjects are final year university students based in Kenya and Portugal who... 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 entitled “The Incentives to (Not) Debate in Low Information Races”. Abstract: While candidate debates are designed to facilitate informed vote choices, they are more prevalent where they are less likely... 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 beliefs about the organization’s performance and increase efforts. You can read the full paper here. Mattia Fracchia is 2023/24 NOVAFRICA Job Market candidate and his research interests are in Development Economics,... 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 implementation and analysis of results of large scale randomized controlled trials related to education, migration and entrepreneurship. Their primary tasks will involve coordinating data collection activities, communicating with partners, data... Read More
NOVAFRICA Vacancy for full-time PREDOC Research Assistant to work with Prof Catia Batista (Portugal)
NOVAFRICA is accepting applications for a full-time PREDOC Research Assistant position to work with Prof Catia Batista. Start date: October 2023 or as soon as possible. Duration: 9 months with the possibility of extension. Location: Lisbon, Portugal. What you can expect: The Predoc Research Assistant will be responsible for providing support in the implementation and... Read More