NOVAFRICA Seminar:“Internal Cocaine Trafficking And Armed Violence In Colombia”
On Wednesday, June 7th, at 2.30pm, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Jaime Millán-Quijano, from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, to present his work. Authors: Jaime Millán-Quijano (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Abstract: This paper exploits time variation in international cocaine prices and potential trafficking within Colombia to estimate exogenous changes in municipality homicide rates. I construct... Read More
A talk with Francesca Marchetta
On April 27th, 2017, Francesca Marchetta gave a talk in the NOVAFRICA Seminar Series. Her seminar was entitled “The impact of weather events on work and schooling decisions in Madagascar”. After the seminar the NOVAFRICA Student Group asked her a few questions about the paper she presented and her research in general. You can see... Read More
A talk with Simone Bertoli
On April 26th, 2017, Simone Bertoli gave a talk in the NOVAFRICA Seminar Series. His seminar was entitled “Migration and co-residence choices”. After the seminar the NOVAFRICA Student Group asked him a few questions about the paper he presented and his research in general. You can see the video here. Written by the NOVAFRICA Student Group
NOVAFRICA Call for Papers: Globalization and Development | A NOVAFRICA and World Bank Workshop
You are invited to submit a paper for the upcoming workshop on “Globalization and Development” The workshop is sponsored by NOVAFRICA and the World Bank. It will take place at Nova School of Business and Economics in Lisbon, on June 9, 2017. The goal of the workshop is to bring together academics to discuss the... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar:“The impact of weather events on work and schooling decisions in Madagascar”
On Thursday, April 27th, at 2.30pm, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Francesca Marchetta, from CERDI, to present her work. Author: Francesca Marchetta (CERDI) Abstract: This paper analyses the impact of weather events on schooling and work decisions in Madagascar, using individual data on a cohort of young man and woman, that have been interviewed in 2004 and in... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar:“Migration and co-residence choices”
On Wednesday, April 26th, at 2.30pm, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Simone Bertoli, from CERDI, to present his work. Authors: Simone Bertoli (CERDI) Abstract: The partition of family members into separate households evolves over time, as co-residence choices can respond to time-varying incentives and constraints. The migration literature implicitly assumes that the migration of one household... Read More
NOVAFRICA 2017 Summer Research Internships
NOVAFRICA is now accepting applications for the 2017 Summer Research Internships. The internships will be integrated in several ongoing NOVAFRICA field research projects. Most of these projects consist of randomized impact evaluations of interventions. The following projects will be active: natural resource management in Cabo Delgado (Mozambique) incentives in health sector (Guinea-Bissau) agricultural technologies experiment... Read More
A talk with Paulo Santos
On March 24th, 2017, Professor Paulo Santos gave a talk in the NOVAFRICA Seminar Series. His seminar was entitled “Not compromising: Using Experiments to Measure Women’s Power” After the seminar the NOVAFRICA Student Group asked him a few questions about the paper he presented and his research in general. You can see the video here.... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar:“Uber vs Taxi: A Driver’s Eye View”
On Wednesday, March 29th, at 2.30pm, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Joshua Angrist, from MIT, to present his work. Authors: Joshua Angrist (MIT) Abstract: Ride-hailing drivers pay a proportion of their earnings to the platform operator, a compensation model increasingly used by internet-mediated service providers. To Uber drivers, this proportion is known as the Uber fee.... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar:“Not Compromising: Using Experiments to Measure Women’s Power”
On Friday, March 24th, at 11.00am, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Paulo Santos, from Monash University to present his work. Authors: Paulo Santos (Monash University) Abstract: We propose an experimental approach to the measurement of women’s power, which we also apply in the context of the evaluation of poverty graduation program. The experimental measure is compared... Read More