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A talk with Paulo Santos
On March 24th, 2017, Professor Paulo Santos gave a talk in the NOVAFRICA Seminar Series. His seminar was entitled “Not compromising: Using Experiments to Measure ...
A talk with Pedro Vicente
On January 21th, 2017, Pedro Vicente gave an interview to the RDP Africa program “Cientificamente”.
A talk with Sylvie Lambert
On February 1st, 2017, Sylvie Lambert gave a talk in NOVAFRICA Seminar Series. Her seminar was entitled “Interpersonal Inequality, Intrahousehold inequalities and Poverty in Senegal”.
News
“NOVAFRICA Sustainable Development Talks” Podcast – Season 2
Listen here to the new season of the “NOVAFRICA Sustainable Development Talks” Podcast. Development in Africa remains the focus of these audio talks that bring ...
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 ...
“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 ...
“Cabo Delgado: Improving People’s Lives”
The violence and corresponding human tragedy in Mozambique’s northern province of Cabo Delgado continues. Pedro Vicente, scientific director of NOVAFRICA, in an article published in ...
The Migrant Crisis in Spain
Thousands of migrants, many of them minors, have crossed the border from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta.
Africa Day & SDGs, a conference with the eyes on the future
The NOVAFRICA Student Group is organizing the AFRICA DAY & SDGs with the goal to contribute with ideas that can help to implement these objectives ...
“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 ...
“Benchmarking a Child Nutrition Program against Cash: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda”
On Wednesday, May 19th, at 02.30 pm, Lisbon time, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Andrew Zeitlin from Georgetown University to present his work on Benchmarking a ...
New article published in the Journal of Development Economics.
Congratulations to NOVAFRICA members, Pedro C. Vicente and Matilde Grácio for their article ”Information, get-out-the-vote messages, and peer influence: Causal effects on political behavior in ...
New article published in the Journal of Development Economics.
Congratulations to NOVAFRICA members, Pedro C. Vicente and Matilde Grácio for their article ”Information, get-out-the-vote messages, and peer influence: Causal effects on political behavior in ...
“Two Sides of Gender: Sex, Power, and Adolescence”
On Wednesday, May 12th, at 02.30 pm, Lisbon time, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Manisha Shah from UCLA to present her work on Two Sides of Gender: Sex, ...