Seminário NOVAFRICA: “Formação para acabar com a pobreza?” por Stefano Caria da University of Oxford

No nosso próximo NOVAFRICA Research Seminar, temos o prazer de receber o Professor Stefano Caria, da universidade de Oxford, na quarta-feira, 4 de março de 2026, pelas 11h30 (hora de Lisboa). O seminário terá lugar na sala D004, na Nova School of Business and Economics, campus de Carcavelos. Stefano Caria apresentará o seu artigo sobre pobreza.

“Formação para acabar com a pobreza?”

Resumo
Can training interventions reduce poverty? In a large RCT in urban Bangladesh, we document four key facts about an NGO-run training program. First, there is minimal demand for training when participants are required to pay for the full cost of the program. Second, demand can be boosted substantially by either offering monetary discounts, or by relying on the NGO recruitment protocol, which persuades uncertain prospective trainees of the benefits of the programs. Third, while lowering training prices attracts poorer trainees on average, NGO recruitment skews selection towards less deprived individuals. Fourth, the marginal trainees attracted under the NGO recruitment protocol experience larger benefits from the program, while the marginal trainees attracted with price discounts experience lower benefits. We conclude by studying, through the help of a structural model, whether a combination of price discounts and the NGO recruitment protocol can target the program to high-deprivation, high-benefit individuals.

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