Listen here to the fith series of the “NOVAFRICA Sustainable Development Talks” Podcast.
This series of audio talks about development in Africa brings together experts from a wide range of institutions. NOVAFRICA Student Group hosted the podcast, which was produced at Fidelidade Creative Studio.
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Episode 1: “The Incentives to (Not) Debate in Low Information Races”, with Katherine Casey (Stanford University).
While candidate debates are designed to facilitate informed vote choices, they are more prevalent where they are less likely to be impactful: in wealthier countries and higher profile races, where citizens are already better informed. Why?
Episode 2: How Are Gender Norms Perceived?”, com Leonardo Bursztyn (University of Chicago).
Actual and perceived gender norms are key to understanding gender inequality in society. In this paper, using newly collected nationally representative datasets from 60 countries that cover over 80% of the world population, we study gender norms on two distinct policy issues
Episode 3: “Do Gender-Neutral Job Ads Promote Diversity? Experimental Evidence from Latin America’s Tech Sector”, com Lucia del Carpio (INSEAD).
Gendered-grammar languages like Spanish are spoken by 39% of the world’s population. In a field experiment in partnership with a Spanish-speaking online platform for technology positions, ads randomly selected to use gender-neutral language.
Episode 4: “Liquidity constraints and capital allocation in Uganda”, com Konrad Burchardi (Stockholm School of Economics).
Agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa has been largely stagnant over the past half century. The lack of progress is often attributed to the lack of adoption of modern inputs, such as chemical fertilisers and hybrid seeds.
