The last in our JMP blog series has Guilio Schinaia with a 2-stage clustered RCT to see how market advisory information affects decisions of cashew farmers in Guinea-Bissau. Information increases farmer revenue, as they make more transactions & get better prices
blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?
📢 Exciting recognition for Hardi Ahmed, PhD candidate in Economics at FAE – University of Alicante (@ua.es): his Job Market Paper has been featured on the World Bank’s Development Impact Blog 🙌
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Congrats @hardiahmed.bsky.social (Univ. Alicante) on this excellent JMP blog entry!!
Hardi has a growing research agenda on institutions & hh behaviour, with projects on gender norms, family dynamics, and the role of religious/customary institutions. More here: sites.google.com/view/hardiah...
La Economía del Desarrollo se hace un hueco en la academia española nadaesgratis.es/jorge-garcia... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía
06.11.2025 06:03 — 👍 15 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 2Thanks for the thread about my work, really appreciate it!
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🚨 New Paper Alert
"Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment"
By NOVAFRICA Scientific Directors & NovaSBE Professors @catiabatista.bsky.social and #PedroCVicente in print in The Review of Economics and Statistics @restatjournal.bsky.social
📄 doi.org/10.1162/rest...
📢 The first NOVAFRICA Featured Paper is here!
"Motivating Volunteer Health Workers in an African Capital City"
by NOVAFRICA Scientific Director & NovaSBE Professor of Economics #PedroCVicente with NOVAFRICA affiliates @fracchiamattia.bsky.social and @tmolinamillan.bsky.social
🔗 bit.ly/4hlNmXJ
Holy forking shirt balls
"Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "
🔆 New Paper out in #JDE!
"What matters for the decision to study abroad? A lab-in-the-field experiment in Cape Verde"
by @novafrica.bsky.social Scientific Director and #NovaSBE Professor @catiabatista.bsky.social w/ #DavidCosta, #PedroFreitas, #GonçaloLima #AnaReis
🔗 bit.ly/3Zb3kfj
Just published in the Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social
"The long run impact of childhood interracial contact on residential segregation"
Joint work with @liamwrenlewis.bsky.social and @lmerlino.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Me too, thanks!
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