The Galician diaspora in Latin America was one of the most significant European emigration surges of the twentieth century. In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, Galicia was the poorest region in Spain, it had mainly a rural economy, and was badly connected to the rest of the country. With that framework, most of the Galician migrants went to Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Cuba looking for better opportunities, which not only had positive effects in the places where they settled but also in their hometowns in Galicia.
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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...