NOVAFRICA News: new AEA P&P article on the adoption of mobile money in Mozambique
Congratulations to Catia Batista and Pedro C. Vicente, scientific directors of NOVAFRICA at Nova School of Business and Economics, for their article “Adopting Mobile Money: Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Africa” published in the American Economic Association P&P. Digital payments are even more important in COVID-19 times. This paper describes mobile money adoption patterns... Read More
NOVAFRICA In the News: Ways to Reduce the Conflict in Cabo Delgado
In an interview to Expresso Newspaper, Pedro Vicente, Scientific Director of NOVAFRICA, talked about two NOVAFRICA projects that are helping to reduce conflict and religious extremism in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. The first project was a large-scale information campaign on the management of natural resources, which decreased the incidence on conflict. The second project related to... Read More
From NOVAFRICA to Royal Holloway, University of London!
The NOVAFRICA knowledge center is the main reason why I started my Ph.D. at Nova SBE six years ago. It is hard to pinpoint precisely why I was so enthusiastic about the center. It was the high quality of researchers. The different projects they had on the ground that I could jump right in and... Read More
Four Months in Bula: Why Would I Do It Again
My name is Rita and I’m currently finishing my master’s in economics, at Nova SBE. Last semester I had the pleasure to do an internship, as a research assistant for Novafrica, on a project on Health and Beliefs in Guinea-Bissau. The main goal of this project is to evaluate in which way the beliefs people... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: Job Market Placements
NOVAFRICA’s job market candidates are spreading around the world! In a highly competitive job market, our candidates are being placed all around the world. This is the outcome of the rigour and quality of their research work and scientific production in the field of development economics. NOVAFRICA congratulates all these candidates who got jobs matching... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: COVID-19 Information
NOVAFRICA is closely monitoring the rapid spread of COVID-19. Our highest priority is to ensure the safety of the communities with whom we are working, and also of NOVAFRICA’s staff, students, researchers and partners. We are continually adjusting our work to news on the coronavirus outbreak. See here the World Health Organization latest updates.
NOVAFRICA Working Paper: “Mobilizing Parents at Home and at School: An Experiment on Primary Education in Angola”
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Papers Series. Written by Vincenzo Di Maro, Stefan Leeffers, Danila Serra and Pedro C. Vicente, this paper tests ways to mobilize parents for education in Angola. Title: Mobilizing Parents at Home and at School: An Experiment on Primary Education in Angola Authors: Vincenzo Di Maro (The World... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: congratulations to Cátia Batista and Pedro Vicente
Congratulations to Cátia Batista and Pedro Vicente, Scientific Directors of NOVAFRICA, for their article published in World Development. The article entitled “Improving Access to Savings through Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence from African Smallholder Farmers” is the first study to use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of using mobile money as a tool... Read More
NOVAFRICA welcomes visiting postdoctoral researcher Caroline Schimanski
NOVAFRICA welcomes visiting postdoctoral researcher Caroline Schimanski. Caroline joined Nova School of Business and Economics in early February. Most of her recent work focuses on public finance economics (i.e. taxation and development) and labour economics, but she is also interested in impact evaluations, social protection, poverty, education, agriculture and health topics. Take a look at... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: new cycle, new challenges in Mozambique
Pedro Vicente, Scientific Director of the Nova’s knowledge center, analyses the re-election of Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi in an interview to SIC Notícias. The Scientific Director of NOVAFRICA, foresees better times for the country. In this interview, the specialist in development economics also spoke about the NOVAFRICA’s project in Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique. In... Read More