Nova School of Business and Economics
Carcavelos Campus
Lisbon, Portugal
The NOVAFRICA Research seminars series hosts a variety of international speakers on topics related to economic development. The seminars are open to the public.
For more information about the NOVAFRICA Research seminars series, please refer to the following schedule or contact us via email.
2nd Semester
Feb 15th, Wednesday
3pm, Room D 012
Zoom
Paulo Santos, Monash University
Paddy and Prejudice: Evidence on the Agricultural Origins of Prejudice from China and 12 other Asian Societies
Paper | Video
Mar 01st, Wednesday
3pm, Room B 133
Zoom
Edalina Rodrigues Sanches and
António Dias, Instituto de Ciências Sociais – Universidade de Lisboa
Who gets to speak? Gender, party effects and parliamentary floor access in Ghana and South Africa
Paper | Video
Mar 03rd, Friday
1.30pm, Room D 012
Zoom
Bruno Ferman, Sao Paulo School of Economics
Rooting for the Same Team: On the Interplay between Political and Social Identities in the Formation of Social Ties
Paper | Video | Podcast
Mar 08th, Wednesday
3pm, Room B 133
Zoom
Silvia Prina,
Northeastern University
Public Opinion, Racial Bias, and Labor Market Outcomes
Paper | Video | Podcast
Mar 29th, Wednesday
3pm, Room B 133
Zoom
Sarah Chloe Deschenes, Northwestern University
Expanding access to schooling in Nigeria: Impact on Marital Outcomes
Paper | Video | Podcast
Apr 5th, Wednesday
3pm, Room B 133
Zoom
Sandra Sequeira, London School of Economics
Zero-sum Thinking and the Roots of US Political Divides
Paper | Video | Podcast
Apr 12th, Wednesday
3pm, Room B 133
Zoom
Suanna Oh, Paris School of Economics
Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?
Paper | Video | Podcast
Apr 26th, Wednesday
3pm, Room B 133
Zoom
Joshua Blumenstock, University of California, Berkeley
Targeting Social Assistance with Machine Learning
Paper | Video | Podcast
May 03rd, Wednesday
3pm, Room B 133
Zoom
Julien Labonne, University of Oxford
Campaigning Against Populism: Emotional and Informational Messaging in Real Campaigns
Paper | Video | Podcast
May 10th, Wednesday
3pm, Room B 133
Zoom
Evan Plous Kresch, Oberlin College
What We Do in the Shadows: How Urban Density Facilitates Information Diffusion
Paper | Video | Podcast
24 May, Wednesday
3pm, Room D 012
Zoom
Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago
How Are Gender Norms Perceived?
Paper | Video | Podcast
29 May, Monday
11am, Room D -113
Zoom
Ricardo Perez-Truglia, UC Berkeley – Haas School of Business
School of Business
Where Do My Tax Dollars Go? Tax Morale Effects of Perceived Government Spending
Paper | Video | Podcast
1st Semester
Sep 7th, Wednesday
02:30pm, Room B 134
Zoom
Ane Fisker, University of Southern Denmark
Real-life effects of health interventions in Guinea-Bissau
Podcast
Sep 15th and 16th
Carcavelos Campus
15th International Conference on Migration and Development
Sep 28th, Wednesday
02:30pm, Room B 134
Zoom
Davide Cantoni, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
The Rise of Fiscal Capacity
Podcast
Oct 7th, Friday
02:30pm,Room D -113
Gabriella Conti, University College London
For Better or Worse? Subjective Expectations and Cost-Benefit Trade-Offs in Health Behavior: An application to lockdown compliance in the United Kingdom
Podcast
Oct 12th, Wednesday
02:30pm, Room B 134
Zoom
Sofia Amaral, ifo Center for Labour and Demographic Economics
Sexual Harassment in Public Spheres and Policing: Experimental Evidence from Urban India
Podcast
Oct 26th, Wednesday
02:30pm, Room B 134
Zoom
Jorge Agüero, University of Connecticut
Human Capital, Internal Migration and Structural Transformation in Africa
Podcast
Nov 2nd, Wednesday
02:30pm, Room B 134
Zoom
Alexander Moradi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Community effects of electrification: Evidence from Burkina Faso’s grid extension
Podcast
Nov 9th, Wednesday
02:30pm, Room B 134
Zoom
Imran Rasul, University College London
Intrahousehold Spillovers of Early Childhood Interventions: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria
Nov 23rd, Wednesday
02:30pm, Room B 134
Zoom
Marcos Vera-Hernandez, University College London
Monetary Incentives and Image Motivation: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment with Nigerian Midwives
Podcast
Dec 2nd, Friday
02:30pm, Room B 133
Zoom
Elias Papaioannou, London Business School
Forced Displacement and Human Capital
Paper | Video | Podcast
Please see here the 2021/2022 NOVAFRICA Research Seminar schedule.
Please see here the 2020/2021 NOVAFRICA Research Seminar schedule.
Please see here the 2019/2020 NOVAFRICA Research Seminar schedule.
Please see here earlier NOVAFRICA Research Seminar schedules.
