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.
Working papers
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman fighting Intolerance
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series. Written by Alex Armand, Paul Atwell, Joseph F. Gomes, and Yannik Schenk this paper analyses the impact of progressive radio programming on societal change during the early period of desegregation in post-World War II U.S. Title: It’s a Bird, it’s a Plane, …
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The politics of policy reform – Experimental evidence from Liberia
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series. Written by Wayne Aaron Sandholtz this paper examines the electoral effects of a randomized Liberian school reform which increased student learning but antagonized teachers. Title: The politics of policy reform: Experimental evidence from Liberia Authors: Wayne Aaron Sandholtz (Nova School of Business and Economics and …
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Artisanal mining in Africa
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series. Written by Victoire Girard,Teresa Molina-Millán, Guillaume Vic this paper estimates the environmental and wealth impacts artisanal small-scale mining in Africa
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 tests experimentally three phone-based cumulative interventions to increase COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in Mozambique. First, the provision of a simple positive message informing about these vaccines.
New NOVAFRICA Working Paper: “Measuring corruption in the field using behavioral games”
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series. Written by Alex Armand, Alexander Coutts, Pedro Vicente and Inês Vilela this paper proposes a novel corruption game to characterize the interaction between actual political leaders and citizens and implement it in Northern Mozambique.
“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.
“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 follows all the Community Health Workers in the capital city of Guinea-Bissau and tests the impact of different types of non-financial incentives on health indicators.
“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 over relative firm performance on micro-firm outputs through a randomized field experiment in Mozambique.
“How has COVID-19 affected the intention to migrate via the backway to Europe? Survey evidence and a salience experiment”
A new working paper has been added to the NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series. Written by Tijan L.Banh, Catia Batista, Flore Gubert and David MacKenzie, this paper analyses how COVID-19 has been affecting irregular migration to Europe. It includes lessons from an (unsuccessful) salience experiment.