NOVAFRICA Seminar:
“Child Height and Intergenerational Transmission of Health: Evidence from Ethnic Indians in England”
On Monday, October 10th, at 2.30pm, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Alessandro Tarozzi from Universitat Pompeu Fabra to present his work. Authors: Alessandro Tarozzi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Abstract: A large literature documents a widespread prevalence of small stature among Indian children as well as adults. We show that a height gap relative to a richer population such as... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar:
“Can Entertainment Media Undermine Dictatorships?”
On Thursday, October 6th, at 2.30pm, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Claudio Ferraz from PUC Rio to present his work. Authors: Claudio Ferraz (PUC Rio) Please find further information about this seminar here. See the paper here.
2016 NOVAFRICA Conference on Economic Development in Africa
On the 14th and 15th of July, NOVAFRICA held a conference on innovations and challenges of economic development in Africa. The conference, in which renowned researchers from international universities participated, reported on current initiatives and research projects in development economics, as well as hosted a policy roundtable with representatives from the Portuguese government, the private... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar:
“Eliciting Maternal Subjective Expectations about the Technology of Cognitive Skill Formation”
On Wednesday, June 22nd, at 2.30pm, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Flávio Cunha, from Rice University to present his work on maternal investments and early childhood development. Authors: Irma Elo Jennifer Culhane Flávio Cunha Abstract: We formulate a model of early childhood development that includes maternal subjective expectations (MSE) about the technology of skill formation. The model explores how MSE... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar:
“Gender and Agency Within the Household: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan”
On Thursday, June 16th, at 4.00pm, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Marcel Fafchamps, from Stanford University to present his work on intra-household decision making and women empowerment in Pakistan. Author: Uzma Afzal Giovanna d’Adda Marcel Fafchamps Abstract: Theoretical and empirical work on intra-household decision making capture empowerment through bargaining weights given to individual preferences, and infer such weights from... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar:
“The War at Home: Long-Run Individual Level Origins of Domestic Violence”
On Wednesday, May 25th, at 2.30pm, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Tilman Brück, from the International Security and Development Center to present his work on the origins of domestic violence in Angola. Author: Tilman Brück Abstract: This paper studies the long-run individual-level origins of perpetrating intimate partner violence. Using self-collected survey data from Angola, we demonstrate... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar:
” Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks”
On Wednesday, May 18th, at 11.00am, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Alice Mesnard, from the City University London to present her work on the effects of information asymmetries on household transfers. Author: Alice Mesnard Abstract: This paper studies asymmetry of information and transfers within a unique data set of 712 extended family networks from Tanzania. Using... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar:
“Secondary school as a contraceptive: almost experimental evidence from Burundi”
On Wednesday, 11 May, at 2.30 pm, the NOVAFRICA Center hosted Philip Verwimp of the Université Libre de Bruxelles to present his work on the effects of secondary education in Burundi. Please find more information about this seminar here.
NOVAFRICA Seminar:
“Segregation, Diversity, and Intra-Party Competition in Ghana”
On Wednesday, April 27th, at 2.30pm, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Nahomi Ichino, from the University of Michigan to present her work on ethnic composition and spatial segregation, and the entry of candidates during elections. Author: Nahomi Ichino Abstract: The quality of governance in new democracies – where institutional constraints on the use of power are... Read More
First NOVAFRICA PhD Workshop on Migration and Development
The 1st NOVAFRICA PhD Workshop on Migration and Development is organized by the NOVAFRICA knowledge center at the Nova School of Business and Economics to give doctoral students the opportunity to share their work with other early-stage researchers and renowned speakers. The workshop will take place before the 2016 NOVAFRICA Conference on Economic Development in Africa to maximize networking opportunities... Read More