Catia Batista is an Associate Professor of Economics at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Catia is also Co-Founder and Scientific Director of the NOVAFRICA research center. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Catia’s research interests are international migration and remittance flows, mobile money, entrepreneurship, technology adoption, education, and policy evaluation. She worked at the International Monetary Fund and consulted for the World Bank and the International Growth Center. Catia was a guest speaker at the NCID Workshop on Migration on November 11.
...Mariapia Mendola is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Università di Milano-Bicocca. She is also Director of the Poverty and Development Program at Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano, Research Fellow at IZA and CefES. Co-Editor of The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy. Her main research interests are Development Economics, Household and Population Economics, and Applied Microeconomics. Her recent research work focuses on migration and human capital investment in developing economies. Mariapia was a guest speaker at the NCID Workshop on Migration on No...
Anna Rosso is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods (DEMM) of the University of Milan. She is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance (LSE) in the Growth Programme and affiliated to the Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano. Anna received her Ph.D. from University College London. Most of her research focuses on the impact of emigration on labor markets in sending countries, and on the determinants of emigrant selection and sorting into different destination countries. Some of her recent work uses Big Data to study firm in...