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 Sustainable Value Creation Summit hosted by Nova School of Business and Economics. The Sustainable Value Creation Summit serves as a pivotal meeting point between academia and industry, where innovators, leaders,... 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 from a wide range of institutions. Myriam Marending, resident member of NOVAFRICA and researcher in Development Economics at Nova SBE, is the podcast academic coordinator. The NOVAFRICA Student Group hosted... 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 of Business to present his work on “Where Do My Tax Dollars Go? Tax Morale Effects of Perceived Government Spending”. Author: Ricardo Perez-Truglia Abstract: Do perceptions about how the government... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar: How Are Gender Norms Perceived?
On Wednesday, May 19rd, at 3pm (Lisbon time), on Room D 012 the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Leonardo Bursztyn from the University of Chicago to present his work on “How Are Gender Norms Perceived?”. Author: Leonardo Bursztyn Abstract: Actual and perceived gender norms are key to understanding gender inequality in society. In this paper, using newly... Read More
NOVAFRICA Vacancy for Pre-doc or PhD research assistant in GLOBCOADEV project (Portugal)
NOVAFRICA is accepting applications for Research Assistants. We are looking for one or more Research Assistants for the ERC project GLOBCOADEV. The global impact of coastal water contamination on economic development” (GLOBCOADEV) GLOBCOADEV will provide novel insights into the causal effect of coastal water contamination on economic development. Using a novel approach exploiting exogenous variation... Read More
NOVAFRICA Vacancy for Postdoctoral researcher in GLOBCOADEV project (Portugal)
NOVAFRICA is accepting applications for a Postdoctoral researcher. We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to be integrated in the ERC project GLOBCOADEV. The global impact of coastal water contamination on economic development” (GLOBCOADEV) GLOBCOADEV will provide novel insights into the causal effect of coastal water contamination on economic development. Using a novel approach exploiting... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: Road to Impact Report 2023
Nova School of Business and Economics launched the fourth edition of the Road to Impact Report 2023! In the document you can find a selection of the recent projects and accomplishments of NOVAFRICA and of all Nova SBE research community. The report aggregates the school’s sustainability path during the last year, fully aligned with the Sustainable... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar: What We Do in the Shadows: How Urban Density Facilitates Information Diffusion
On Wednesday, May 10th, at 3pm (Lisbon time), on Room B 133 the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Evan Plous Kresch from Oberlin College to present his work on “What We Do in the Shadows: How Urban Density Facilitates Information Diffusion”. Author: Evan Plous Kresch Abstract: Does urban density facilitate the diffusion of information? This paper exploits... Read More
NOVAFRICA Podcast
Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?
Episode 10 of the 4th Season of the NOVAFRICA Sustainable Development Talks was recorded with Professor Suanna Oh, from the Paris School of Economics. Our guest talked about her paper entitled “Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?”. Abstract: How does identity influence economic behavior in the labor market? I investigate this question in rural India, focusing... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar: Campaigning Against Populism: Emotional and Informational Messaging in Real Campaigns
On Wednesday, May 03rd, at 3pm (Lisbon time), on Room B 133 the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Julien Labonne from the University of Oxford to present his work on “Campaigning Against Populism: Emotional and Informational Messaging in Real Campaigns”. Author: Julien Labonne Abstract: While there is a large literature on the causes of populism, much less... Read More