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Demystifying Migration
International migration flows have been growing in the last decades all over the world. At the same time, anti-migration policies are being widely adopted as ...
The impact of Covid-19 on intentions to migrate from Africa to Europe
The COVID-19 pandemic restricted the already limited opportunities to emigrate legally from Africa to Europe. Border closures were a mechanism used by most countries to ...
A development movie suggestion: “Darwin’s Nightmare”
Recommendation #2 – Darwin’s Nightmare is a 2004 Oscar-nominated documentary.
News
Catia Batista and Pedro Vicente published in the Review of Economics and Statistics
The paper “Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment” written by NOVAFRICA scientific directors Cátia Batista and Pedro C. Vicente is ...
NOVAFRICA Predoc Lara Bohnet received FFMS best thesis award
The Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos awarded Lara Bohnet, former NOVAFRICA predoc and Nova SBE student, with a prize for her master in economics thesis.
NOVAFRICA students in the spotlight
Last week five students from the NOVAFRICA Student Group presented their thesis research projects. Their theses pressed topics in development economics such as international migration, ...
NOVAFRICA at the Sustainable Value Creation Summit
Last week, NOVAFRICA‘s scientific director, Pedro Vicente, and PhD student, Mattia Fracchia, participated in a dynamic panel discussion on value creation in Guinea-Bissau at the Sustainable Value Creation ...
Targeting Social Assistance with Machine Learning
Listen to the fourth series of the “NOVAFRICA Sustainable Development Talks” Podcast.
NOVAFRICA Seminar: Where Do My Tax Dollars Go? Tax Morale Effects of Perceived Government Spending
On Wednesday, May 29 th, at 11Am (Lisbon time), on Room B 133 the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Ricardo Perez-Truglia from UC Berkeley – Haas School ...
Road to Impact Report 2023
Nova School of Business and Economics launched the fourth edition of the Road to Impact Report 2023! In the document you can find a selection of the ...
What We Do in the Shadows: How Urban Density Facilitates Information Diffusion
On Wednesday, May 10th, at 3pm (Lisbon time), on Room B 133 the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Evan Plous Kresch from Oberlin College to present his ...
Campaigning Against Populism: Emotional and Informational Messaging in Real Campaigns
On Wednesday, May 03rd, at 3pm (Lisbon time), on Room B 133 the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Julien Labonne from the University of Oxford to present ...
Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?
Episode 10 of the 4th Season of the NOVAFRICA Sustainable Development Talks was recorded with Professor Suanna Oh, from the Paris School of Economics. Our guest talked about her paper ...
Job Market Placements
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