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Blog
Creating value in Guinea-Bissau
On the occasion of Africa Day, May 25th, I had the honor of participating in the Sustainable Value Creation Summit hosted by Nova School of ...
Migration as a tool to fight poverty
Read the article by Cátia Batista, scientific director of NOVAFRICA, published in the Brotéria magazine and now also in the NOVAFRICA blog about how migration ...
People of NOVAFRICA: Nikita Melnikov
This month, we had the opportunity to meet with Nikita Melnikov and discuss his research and work, over a cup of coffee. Nikita Melnikov joined ...
News
Liquidity constraints and capital allocation in Uganda
Episode 4 of the 5th Season of the NOVAFRICA Sustainable Development Talks was recorded with Konrad Burchardi, from Stockholm School of Economics. Our guest talked ...
NOVAFRICA publications in 2023
2023 was a productive year for NOVAFRICA researchers!
Do Gender-Neutral Job Ads Promote Diversity? Experimental Evidence from Latin America’s Tech Sector
Episode 3 of the 5th Season of the NOVAFRICA Sustainable Development Talks was recorded with Lucia del Carpio, from INSEAD. Our guest talked about her ...
Public Service Delivery, Exclusion and Externalities: Theory and Experimental Evidence from India
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series.
How Are Gender Norms Perceived?
Episode 2 of the 5th Season of the NOVAFRICA Sustainable Development Talks was recorded with Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago. Our guest talked about his paper ...
2024 NOVAFRICA Conference
On June 26th and 27th, 2024 NOVAFRICA will host the bianual international conference on Development Economics.
Weiss Family Award to Mattia Fracchia
The Job Market paper of NOVAFRICA PhD candidate, Mattia Fracchia, was awarded the Weiss Family Distinguished Paper Award at The North East Universities Development Consortium ...
NOVAFRICA News: New paper!
The paper “Testing classic theories of migration in the lab” by Catia Batista, NOVAFRICA scientific director, and David Mckenzie, from The World Bank, is now ...
The Incentives to (Not) Debate in Low Information Races
On Wednesday, October 4th, at 3.30pm (Lisbon time), on Room B 132 the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Katherine Casey from Stanford University to present her work ...
Can organizations harness performance evidence to motivate workers?
Nova School of Business and Economics PhD candidate Mattia Fracchia addresses this question in a field experiment in Guinea-Bissau.
Full-time Predoc Research Assistant Opening
NOVAFRICA is recruiting a full-time PREDOC Research Assistant to work with Professor Cátia Batista.