Nobel in Africa is a STIAS Initiative in partnership with Stellenbosch University, under the auspices of the Nobel Foundation and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences with funding from the Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation. The following public events are organised as part of the Outreach Programme of the 2024 Nobel Symposium in Economic Sciences.
11 March, 11:30 - 14:15, University of Cape Town (click here to read more and RSVP)
- Stefan Dercon, University of Oxford, South Africa and the elite bargain for development
- Dean Karlan, Northwestern University, Empowering the Unempowered: Cash and Cash-Plus Approaches to Extreme Poverty
11 March, 12:00 - 14:00, University of the Western Cape (click here to read more and RSVP)
- Karen Macours, Paris School of Economics, Long-term impacts of cash transfer programmes
11 March, 13:00 - 14:30, Stellenbosch University (click here to read more and RSVP)
- Pascaline Dupas, Princeton University, The first- and second-generation effects of free secondary education: Experimental Evidence from Ghana
- Germano Mwabu, University of Nairobi, Human Capital Development in Africa: Addressing Learning and Skills Gaps
12 March, 09:00 - 11:00, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (click here to read more and RSVP)
- Opening session: Nobel Symposium in Economic Sciences
12 March, 18:00 - 19:15, Stellenbosch University (click here to read more and RSVP)
- Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Poor Economics (almost) 15 years later