NOVAFRICA News: Welcome our new Resident Members!
Join us in welcoming the new NOVAFRIA Resident Members, Professors Priscila de Oliveira and Pedro Pires! Professor Priscila de Oliveira is joining the Nova School of Business and Economics as an Assistant Professor in Economics. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and she has research interests in development, behavioral... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: NOVAFRICA migration project on TV
NOVAFRICA Scientific Director and Nova School of Business and Economics Professor Catia Batista was on SIC Notícias TV to discuss her recent study evaluating policies that provide alternatives to irregular migration from West Africa to Europe. Watch full video of the interview here. Read the published paper in the Journal of Development Economics, here. Read... Read More
NOVAFRICA Vacancy for Research Internship (Cape Verde)
NOVAFRICA is accepting applications for a Research Internship. We are looking for a research intern to be integrated in the following ongoing NOVAFRICA field research project: Higher Future – An Experimental Evaluation with Cape Verdean students (Cape Verde) This project consists of a randomized impact evaluation of development intervention with Cape Verdean high school students.... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: Victoire Girard published in the Economic Journal
The paper “Mineral Resources and the Salience of Ethnic Identities” written by Victoire Girard, NOVAFRICA and Nova SBE Research Faculty, joint with Nicolas Berman and Mathieu Couttenier has been published in The Economic Journal. You can read the paper here and the (open access) NOVAFRICA working paper here
NOVAFRICA News: Eurafrican Forum is back at Nova SBE
We are delighted to share that NOVAFRICA is once again a partner of the Eurafrican Forum. The event is back and will take place on the 18 and 19 July at the Nova SBE campus, in Carcavelos. This year’s edition will host the President of Ghana, H.E Nana Akufo-Addo and other influential African and European... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: Management Science publication in the spotlight
The Management Science blog is highlighting the paper “Closing the gender profit gap? Evidence from Mozambique” written by Cátia Batista and Pedro C. Vicente, NOVAFRICA Scientific Directors and professors at Nova SBE, and Sandra Sequeira, NOVAFRICA External Member and professor at LSE. You can read the paper here.
NOVAFRICA Podcast: Where Do My Tax Dollars Go? Tax Morale Effects of Perceived Government Spending
Episode 14 of the 4th Season of the NOVAFRICA Sustainable Development Talks was recorded with Ricardo Perez-Truglia, from the UC Berkeley – Haas School of Business. Our guest talked about his paper entitled “Where Do My Tax Dollars Go? Tax Morale Effects of Perceived Government Spending”. Abstract: Do perceptions about how the government spends tax... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: Catia Batista interviewed on World Refugee Day
On the occasion of the World Refugee Day, NOVAFRICA Scientific Director and Nova SBE Professor, Catia Batista, was interviewed by SIC Noticias. She talked about the NOVAFRICA research that she has been conducting on evaluating the impact of different migration policies to avoid the loss of migrant lives in the Mediterranean. Watch the interview here.... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: NOVAFRICA Fellow Prince Okenna graduation
NOVAFRICA Fellow Prince Okenna has successfully completed his Master in International Development and Public Policy from Nova SBE. Prince benefited from a NOVAFRICA Merit Scholarship with the support of Five Thousand Miles and Pedro Hipolito, founder and CEO of Five Thousand Miles. We congratulate Prince for this achievementt and wish him all the success!
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 this paper analyses the impact of progressive radio programming on societal change during the early period of desegregation in post-World War II U.S. Title: It’s a Bird, it’s a Plane,... Read More