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Cátia Batista

    Nova University of Lisbon and IZA

Catia Batista is Associate Professor of Economics at the Nova School of Business and Economics, where she is also Founder and Scientific Director of the NOVAFRICA research center. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Department of Economics of the University of Chicago. Catia has research interests related to international migration and remittance flows, financial inclusion, entrepreneurship, technology adoption, education and policy evaluation. Her work, mainly randomized and lab-in-the-field experiments, took place in countries such as Cape Verde, the Gambia, Ireland, Kenya, Portugal, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe. Catia has taught at the University of Chicago, University of Oxford, Trinity College Dublin, and Notre Dame University. She is currently a Research Fellow at the international research centers CReAM (London, UK), IZA (Bonn, Germany) and JPAL-Europe (Paris, France). Previously, Catia worked at the International Monetary Fund and at the Portuguese Catholic University, and consulted for the World Bank and the International Growth Center.

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Related Projects

  • Promoting Migrant Remittances using Mobile Banking

Related Publications

  • GLM|LIC Policy Brief No. 13

    Promoting Migrant Remittances using Mobile Banking
  • GLM|LIC Working Paper No. 30

    Introducing Mobile Money in Rural Mozambique
  • G²LM|LIC Working Paper No. 71

    Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Published Articles

  • VoxDev

    Is mobile money changing the rural landscape? Evidence from Mozambique
  • The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1–29

    Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment
  • AEA Papers and Proceedings (pp. 594-98)

    Adopting Mobile Money: Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Africa

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