On Wednesday, November 24th, at 02.30 pm, Lisbon time, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Elena Stancanelli from Paris School of Economics to present her work on Household Expenditure in the Wake of Terrorism: evidence from high-frequency in-home-scanner data. Author: Elena Stancanelli, Paris School of Economics Abstract: This paper adds to the scant literature on the impact …
The NOVAFRICA Merit Scholarship was formally awarded to Prince Okenna, a Nigerian student. of the Masters in International Development & Public Policy.
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 NOVAFRICA, Nova School of Business and Economics, and collaborators.
NOVAFRICA welcomes Manuel de Araújo Mayor of Quelimane City, Mozambique for a Special Lecture, on November 12th, at 04.00 pm, in Teresa and Alexandre Soares dos Santos library, at Nova SBE, in Carcavelos Campus.
In an article in The Economist, Cátia Batista talks about the benefits of emigration for politics and entrepreneurship in countries of origin. Read Kinley Salmon’s article “Many more Africans are migrating within Africa than to Europe” in The Economist about growing internal migration in Africa. NOVAFRICA scientific director Catia Batista talks about the benefits of emigration for …
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a fragile state which needs to build completely a tax revenue base as it has the lowest tax-GDP ratios in the world. For example, Kananga, one of the largest cities in the country, collected tax revenues of only $0.30 per person in the year of 2015. To increase the tax revenue, the government of the province has been conducting a series of citywide door-to-door collection campaigns since 2016 (Weigel, 2020; Balan et al., 2020).
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: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Tax Collectors in the DRC. Author: Jonathan Weigel, London School of Economics Abstract: The assignment of workers to tasks and teams is a key margin of firm …
What is the impact of early settlers on the long-term development of Latin American Spanish colonies? What is the role of their heterogeneous skills? Have early settlers’ characteristics persisted over time?
On Wednesday, November 3th, at 02.30 pm, Lisbon time, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Marta Reynal-Querol from the University of Pompeu Fabra to present her work on Colonization, Early Settlers and Development: The Case of Latin America.
On Friday, October 3th, at 02.30 pm, Lisbon time, the NOVAFRICA Center welcomes Andrew Foster from Brown University to present his work on Start What You Finish! Ex ante risk and schooling investments in the presence of dynamic Complementarities.
