In developing countries, there are communities were men and women don't have always the same decision-making powers when it comes to public issues. But what if women receive the same opportunities as men?
That is what Ana García-Hernádez, a Ph.D. candidate at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, is trying to answer in her job market paper, which she presented at the Navarra Center for International Development (NCID) on Thursday, January 23. With a lab-in-the-field experiment in a rural community in Uganda, she explores what she calls the "agency mechanism," which is "the fact that indi...
Would you share the call for a grant with those in your community or sector which you know can be your rivals in the process? “When I receive this kind of information I think my benefit is going to decrease when more people know about this information”, said Inês Vilela, job market candidate who visit the NCID last Monday 20th of January.
Vilela did a lab-in-the-field experiment in Cabo Delgado province in Mozambique with a community with an easy game. In one rivals competed for a share of an economic share, whilst in the other there was no competition for a share, but rather...
Between 2005 and 2015 the Government of Peru underwen a nation-wide expansion of sewerage infrastructure. What they didn't expect was for this to have an effect on infant and under-five mortality. Mortality increased a 6% on average at each district where a new sewerage project was constructed.
"In low and middle income countries there is a lot of unfinished mega projects", said Antonella Bancalari, job market candidate who visited the NCID last friday 17th of January to present her paper 'Unintended Consequences of Infrastructure Development: Sewerage and Early-lif...