Mattia Fracchia, a PhD Candidate in Economics at the Nova School of Business and Economics, visited the NCID to give a seminar as part of the Job Market entitled "Does performance evidence motivate? A field experiment in Guinea-Bissau´s health sector".
The main objective is to investigate how employees respond to evidence about their organisation's performance in fulfilling its mission.
Following a randomised field experiment in Guinea-Bissau, it was found that after providing frontline health worker...
Cristina Clerici, a PhD Candidate in Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, visited the NCID to give a seminar as part of the Job Market entitled "Information, expectations and preferences: occupational choices of young adults in Uganda".
She focuses on answering the question: What drives young adults’ occupational choices in Africa? A survey of 1,003 young men and women in urban Uganda highlights the role of information, expectations and preferences in career choice.
First, it shows that r...
Eugenia Frezza, a PhD Candidate in Economics at Trinity College Dublin, visited the NCID to give a seminar as part of the Job Market entitled "Accepting the unacceptable: Does intimate partner violence shape the tolerance of violence?".
She explained that her research analyse how the intimate partner violence has a causal effect on victims' tolerance towards it in a context where divorce is very costly.
It shows theoretically that tolerance to violence can serve as a coping mechanism, especially ...