“Land reform policy needs to account for pre-existing gender differences in rights to land inheritance and ownership”, said Abhishek Chakravarty, Assistant Profesor at the University of Essex. Chakravarty visited the University of Navarra to present his paper titled “Property Rights and Gender Bias: Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal”.
His research, carried out jointly with Sonia Bhalotra (University of Essex), Dilip Mookherjee (Boston University), and, Francisco J. Pino (University of Chile), studied how the formalization...
Alex Armand, NCID researcher receives funding from the Ramon Areces Foundation to carry out the project: "Towards an understanding of parental expectations of returns to education in developing countries."
"Education is a very important aspect of a country’s growth,” explains the researcher, and therefore, “it is essential to understand how parents and/or children make decisions when making this type of investment in human capital".
The project aims to understand parents’ expectations that may ...
Luis Alberiko Gil-Alaña, researcher at the Navarra Center for International Development (NCID), visited Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya, for research collaboration and to teach over 10 days.
The Pamplona-based expert in macroeconomics gave two courses on Econometrics and Data Analysis to students in Strathmore Business School and the Master of Public Policy. The course for the Masters students was organized by the Financial Sector Deepening Kenya, an organization that targets financial inclusio...