Catia Batista is a Professor of Economics at Nova School of Business and Economics (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), where she is also co-Founder and Scientific Director of the NOVAFRICA research center. Catia 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. She has done work including RCTs and lab-in-the-field experiments in countries such as Cape Verde, the Gambia, Ireland, Kenya, Portugal, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe.

Currently a research fellow at the CReAM center (University College London, UK) and an invited researcher at J-PAL Europe (Paris School of Economics, France), Catia has taught at the University of Chicago, University of Oxford, Notre Dame University, and Trinity College Dublin. Previously, she worked at the International Monetary Fund and at the Portuguese Catholic University, and consulted for the World Bank and the International Growth Center.

Catia is Counsellor at the National Council for Migration and Asylum Policies (Portugal).

Catia is currently a Research Fellow at IZA, and joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in May 2005.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8195
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79, 797–821.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7984
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68 (1), 108-130.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7839
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2018, 32(1), 203–219.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7781
published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3:17
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7765
published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 122 (2), 276–284
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7629
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 118, 2-21
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5048
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 97 (1), 32-45
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4688
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2011, 25 (1), 77-104
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4683
published in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Advances), 2015, 15 (2), 467-508
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3035
substantially revised version available as IZA DP No. 5048
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