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
NOVAFRICA Seminar:
“The Reliability and Validity of Skills Measurement in Rural Household Surveys”
On Wednesday, April 13th, at 2.30pm, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Karen Macours, from the Paris School of Economics to present her work on the reliability and validity of applying commonly used skills measures in developing countries. Author: Karen Macours Abstract: Measures of cognitive, non-cognitive and technical skills are increasingly used in development economics, to analyze... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar:
“Low Quality, Low Returns, Low Adoption: Evidence from the Market for Fertilizer and Hybrid Seed in Uganda”
On Wednesday, April 6th, at 2.30pm, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Jakob Svensson, from the Institute for International Economic Studies to present his work on the effects of fertilizer and seed quality on agricultural productivity. Author: Jakob Svensson Abstract: To reduce poverty and food insecurity in Africa requires raising productivity in agriculture. Systematic use of fertilizer... Read More
NOVAFRICA 2016 Summer Research Internships
NOVAFRICA is now accepting applications for the 2016 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) aspirations and entrepreneurship in Maputo (Mozambique) farmer participatory... Read More