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...
The Navarra Center for International Development (NCID) started receiving job market candidates yesterday, January 15, with the visit of Jonathan Lehne, who is finishing his Ph.D. at the Paris School of Economics. Lehne presented the paper 'Irrigation vs education: The long-run effects of opium cultivation in British India,' where he studies the long-term implications of British colonial policies regarding opium.
He starts by assuming that colonial policies still have consequences and manifestations in developing countries, and the paper tries to establish why. In his own words, w...