NOVAFRICA News: Annual newsletter
NOVAFRICA‘s welcome to 2022! In this new year, we would like to share with you our achievements in 2021 and our goals for 2022. Read... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: Wayne Sandholtz AER article discussed in the Financial Times
Read the Financial Times news piece on the American Economic Review article “The complicated legacy of Liberia’s experiment in outsourcing school management” by Wayne Sandholtz from... Read More
NOVAFRICA Seminar: Optimal Assignment of Bureaucrats: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Tax Collectors in the DRC
On Friday, November 10th, at 02.30 pm, Lisbon time, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Jonathan Weigel from the London School of Economics to present his work on Optimal Assignment of Bureaucrats:... Read More
New NOVAFRICA Working Paper: “Let’s Call! Using the Phone to Increase Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccines”
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series. Written by Alex Armand, Mattia Fracchia, and Pedro Vicente this paper develops and... Read More
NOVAFRICA Working paper “Coordination and the Poor Maintenance Trap: an Experiment on Public Infrastructure in India”
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series, written by Alex Armand, Britta Augsburg, and Antonella Bancalari. Title: “Coordination and the... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: Measuring policy impact on irregular migration from West Africa
The COVID-19 pandemic has initially decreased irregular migration to Europe by the poorest African youth. But more recently the migration numbers have been rising –... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: Workshop in The Gambia about Irregular Migration to Europe.
Join us online this Wednesday, July 7th, in a workshop that takes place in The Gambia about the NOVAFRICA project “Information Gaps and Irregular Migration... Read More
NOVAFRICA News: congratulations to Jules Gazeaud
Congratulations to NOVAFRICA resident member Jules Gazeaud for his article “On Cash Transfers and Migration: Theory and Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial” (joint Eric Mvukiyehe and Olivier... Read More
NOVAFRICA Working Paper “Motivating Volunteer Health Workers in an African Capital City”
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series. Written by Facchia Mattia, Teresa Molina Milan and Pedro Vicente, this paper... Read More
NOVAFRICA Working Paper “Keeping Up With the Joneses: Economic Impacts of Overconfidence in Micro-Entrepreneurs”
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series. Written by Julia Seither, this paper studies the effects of incorrect beliefs... Read More
