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Alex Armand is an Associate Professor of Economics at Nova School of Business and Economics, a research affiliate at CEPR, and a research fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (UK), and at the Navarra Centre for International Development (Spain). His main research fields are applied microeconomics, development economics and political economy. His current work focuses on the effect of providing education-related cash transfers on household outcomes, on the effect of local community engagement on natural resource management, on conflict-reducing policies, on the role of ocean dependency for communities living in coastal areas, and on infrastructure in developing cities. In his professional career has been leading research projects in Macedonia, Mozambique, India, Bolivia, Guatemala and Honduras. He consulted the World Bank and the Ministry of Social Policy in the FYR of Macedonia. He has published his work in top academic journals, such as the American Economic Review and the Economic Journal. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University College London.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Alex Armand

Citation names

  • Armand, Alex

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
4114-DA0D-36E0
ORCID iD
0000-0003-1326-7348
Google Scholar ID
5g_5Kt0AAAAJ
Scopus Author Id
57192816615

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • 910578196 (Personal)

Addresses

  • Campus de Carcavelos, Rua da Holanda 1, 2775-405, Carcavelos, Carcavelos, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Economics and Business - Economics
  • Social Sciences - Economics and Business - Economics
  • Social Sciences - Economics and Business - Economics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Italian (Mother tongue)
French Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2007/09/24 - 2014/08/28
Concluded
 PhD in Economics (Doctor of Philosophy)
University College London Department of Economics, United Kingdom
"Essays on intra-household resource control, subjective expectations and human capital investment" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2005/09/01 - 2006/07/26
Concluded
 MSc in Economics, Finance and Management (Master)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
2000/09/01 - 2005/04/01
Concluded
 BSc in Economics (Bachelor)
Universita degli Studi di Torino Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Sociali e Matematico-Statistiche, Italy
 110/110 cum laude and mention
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/05/08 - Current Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2022/05/07 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2014/09/01 - 2019/08/31 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidad de Navarra, Spain
2017/09 - 2018/03 Visiting Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2007 - 2014 Assistant (University Teacher) University College London Department of Economics, United Kingdom

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/09 - Current Director of the PhD program in Economics and Finance Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2019/09 - Current Resident Member Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro NOVAFRICA, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/01/01 - Current Research Affiliate Centre for Economic Policy Research, United Kingdom
2016/09/01 - Current International Research Fellow Institute for Fiscal Studies, United Kingdom
2016/09 - 2017/02 Visiting Research Associate The London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022 - 2027 The global impact of coastal water contamination on economic development
GLOBCOADEV
 European Research Council
2023 - 2024 On the political economy of urbanization
STEG_LOA_LRG03_1627
Principal investigator
His Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Ongoing
2021/03 - 2022/11 The effect of ceasefire agreements
605UU-0000000000000000000003078
Principal investigator
United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, Finland
 United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research
Ongoing
2020/07 - 2021/11 Countering Islamic radicalization in Northern Mozambique: radio campaigning and adolescent sensitization in religious schools
MOZ-20102
 IGC
2020 - 2020 Combating fake news in informal settlements
106404
 Global Challenges Research Fund
2020 - 2020 Coping with COVID-19 measures in informal settlements
IND-20077
 IGC
2016 - 2020 Community toilet use in slums
DPW1-1105
Principal investigator
Institute for Fiscal Studies, United Kingdom
 3ie - International Initiative for Impact Evaluation
Concluded
2018 - 2019 Agricultural risk in Mozambique
1-VCC-VMOZ-VXXXX-36421
Principal investigator
Universidad de Navarra, Spain
 IGC
Concluded
2017 - 2019 Radio messaging and armed group behaviour
16th National Competition for Economic Research Grants
 Fundación Ramon Areces
2015 - 2018 On the mechanics of the political resource curse
TW8R2-1008
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
 International Initiative for Impact Evaluation
Concluded
2017 - 2017 Sanitation financing and revenue models in reuse waste
N/A
Principal investigator
Institute for Fiscal Studies, United Kingdom
 Economic and Social Research Council
Concluded
2016 - 2017 Learning from a publicly subsidized agricultural insurance
TW13/1007
Principal investigator
Universidad de Navarra, Spain
 International Initiative for Impact Evaluation
Concluded
2015 - 2017 Fractional integration, business productivity and policy evaluation in developing countries
ECO2014-55236-R
Researcher
Universidad de Navarra, Spain
 Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
Concluded
2015 - 2017 Behavioural measurements of information and local elite behaviour in Mozambique
S-89330-MOZ-1
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
 IGC
Concluded
2015 - 2017 Understanding parental expectations of returns to schooling in developing countries
14th National Competition for Economic Research Grants
N/A
Principal investigator
Universidad de Navarra, Spain
 Fundación Ramon Areces
Concluded
2013/02 - 2015/02 Evaluating the impact of alternative CCT modalities in Macedonia
OW4/1022
Researcher
Institute for Fiscal Studies, United Kingdom
 3ie - International Initiative for Impact Evaluation
Concluded
2014 - 2015 Designing T&A interventions in Kenya and Mozambique
TW8.1023
Principal investigator
Universidad de Navarra, Spain
 International Initiative for Impact Evaluation
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Alex Armand; Mattia Fracchia; Pedro C. Vicente. "Let's Call! Using the Phone to Increase Vaccine Acceptance". Health Economics 33 1 (2023): 82-106. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/8bcbfe42-e947-45dd-a37c-9e1ac1d16833.
    Published • 10.1002/hec.4760
  2. Armand, Alex; Coutts, Alexander; Vicente, Pedro C.; Vilela, Inês. "Measuring corruption in the field using behavioral games". Journal of Public Economics 218 (2023): 104799. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2022.104799.
    In press • 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2022.104799
  3. Julio S. Solís Arce; Shana S. Warren; Niccolò F. Meriggi; Alexandra Scacco; Nina McMurry; Maarten Voors; Georgiy Syunyaev; et al. "COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in low- and middle-income countries". Nature Medicine 27 8 (2021): 1385-1394. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/21d48de7-3f87-465d-bdad-1032228dde46.
    10.1038/s41591-021-01454-y
  4. Alex Armand; Alexander Coutts; Pedro C. Vicente; Ines Vilela. "Does information break the political resource curse?". American Economic Review 110 11 (2020): 3431-3453. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/fe10069a-767d-4866-91b9-3486ba537c4a.
    10.1257/AER.20190842
  5. Alex Armand; Orazio Attanasio; Pedro Carneiro; Valérie Lechene. "The effect of gender-targeted conditional cash transfers on household expenditures". Economic Journal 130 631 (2020): 1875-1897. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/4716bf69-6c29-46b8-b37b-be127a343fb3.
    10.1093/EJ/UEAA056
  6. Armand, Alex (4114-DA0D-36E0); Paul Atwell; Joseph F. Gomes. "The Reach of Radio: Ending Civil Conflict through Rebel Demobilization". American Economic Review 110 5 (2020): 1395-1429. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.20181135.
    Published • 10.1257/aer.20181135
  7. Armand, Alex; Attanasio, Orazio; Carneiro, Pedro; Lechene, Valerie. "The Effect of Gender-Targeted Cash Transfers on Household Expenditures: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment". The Economic Journal (2020):
    Accepted
  8. Armand, Alex (4114-DA0D-36E0); Pedro Mendi. "Demand drops and innovation investments: Evidence from the Great Recession in Spain". Research Policy 47 7 (2018): 1321-1333. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85046136468&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1016/j.respol.2018.04.015
  9. Almås, I.; Armand, Alex (4114-DA0D-36E0); Attanasio, O.; Carneiro, P.. "Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers". Economic Journal 128 612 (2018): F609-F639. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85047485698&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1111/ecoj.12517
  10. Armand, Alex (4114-DA0D-36E0); Carneiro, P.; Locatelli, A.; Mihreteab, S.; Keating, J.. "Do public health interventions crowd out private health investments? Malaria control policies in Eritrea". Labour Economics 45 (2017): 107-115. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85008194807&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1016/j.labeco.2016.11.003
Report
  1. Armand, Alex; Britta Augsburg; Antonella Bancalari; Bhartendu Trivedi. 2020. Community Toilet Use in Indian Slums: Willingness-to-pay and the role of informational and supply side constraints. https://www.3ieimpact.org/evidence-hub/publications/impact-evaluations/community-toilet-use-indian-slums-willingness-pay-and.
  2. Armand, Alex; Ana Isabel Costa; Alexander Coutts; Pedro C. Vicente; Inês Vilela. 2019. Using Information to Break the Political Resource Curse in Natural Gas Management in Mozambique. https://www.3ieimpact.org/evidence-hub/publications/impact-evaluations/using-information-break-political-resource-curse.
  3. Armand, Alex; Joseph F. Gomes; Ivan Kim Taveras. 2019. Managing Agricultural Risk in Mozambique. https://www.theigc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Armand-et-al-2019-Final-report.pdf.
  4. Armand, Alex; Pedro Carneiro. 2018. Impact Evaluation of the Conditional Cash Transfer Program for Secondary School Attendance in Macedonia. https://www.3ieimpact.org/evidence-hub/publications/impact-evaluations/impact-evaluation-conditional-cash-transfer-program.
  5. Armand, Alex; Ana Isabel Costa; Alexander Coutts; Pedro C. Vicente; Inês Vilela. 2018. On the Mechanics of the Political Resource Curse: Behavioural measurements of information and local elite behaviour in Mozambique. https://www.theigc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Armand-et-al-2018-Final-report.pdf.
Working paper
  1. Alex Armand; Myriam Marending; Galina Vysotskaya. 2023. "Windows of peace". https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/a8267c79-3610-46aa-ad36-fcbad945124e.
  2. Alex Armand; Alexander Coutts; Pedro C. Vicente; Inês Vilela. 2021. "Measuring corruption in the field using behavioral games". https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/9c1b287f-a99f-4a11-b694-1a7656c2913a.
  3. Alex Armand; Britta Augsburg; Antonella Bancalari; Kalyan Kumar Kameshwara. 2021. "Countering misinformation with targeted messages". https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/27a7cf4d-800c-4350-935e-bdfa934e0694.
  4. Alex Armand; Britta Augsburg; Antonella Bancalari. 2021. "Coordination and the poor maintenance trap". https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/a4c982ce-fb49-45d3-beae-0885e7be782e.
  5. Alex Armand; Ivan Kim Taveras. 2021. "The ocean and early-childhood mortality and development". https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/417acdec-ed5f-4997-80d6-08008d6921b2.
  6. Alex Armand; Pedro Carneiro; Federico Tagliati; Yiming Xia. 2020. "Can subsidized employment tackle long-term unemployment?". https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/36abb06f-a318-4a55-a859-dcb10f6497be.

Other

Other output
  1. Incentivising quality of public infrastructure excludes users and worsens public health. 2021. Alex Armand; Britta Augsburg; Antonella Bancalari. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/eae91523-4ed4-4886-be90-47efca5c3954.
  2. Harming the ocean impacts children in low- and middle-income countries. 2021. Alex Armand. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/7b794294-a369-4857-98d8-c9c92b5f842a.
  3. Challenges of Adopting Coronavirus Precautions in Low-Income Countries. 2020. Alison Andrew; Armand, Alex; Britta Augsburg; Ivan Kim Taveras. https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/14779.
  4. Natural Resource Discoveries: Information campaigns for local communities. 2019. Armand, Alex; Alexander Coutts; Pedro C. Vicente; Inês Vilela. http://www.globaldev.blog/blog/natural-resource-discoveries-information-campaigns-local-communities.
  5. Natural resource discoveries. Information campaigns for local communities. 2019. Armand, Alex (4114-DA0D-36E0); Alexander Coutts; Pedro C. Vicente; Ana Inês da Silva Vilela. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/5818559e-f601-4943-976f-452a38f2b413.
  6. Safe Toilets are Important so Why Don’t People Use Them?. 2018. Armand, Alex; Britta Augsburg; Antonella Bancalari. https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/13725.
  7. Are Women’s Empowerment Programs Failing or Are We Measuring Wrong?. 2018. Armand, Alex. https://apolitical.co/en/solution_article/are-womens-empowerment-programs-failing-or-are-we-measuring-wrong.
  8. Targeted Transfers and the Assessment of Women’s Empowerment. 2016. Ingvild Almås; Armand, Alex; Orazio Attanasio; Pedro Carneiro. https://voxeu.org/article/targeted-transfers-and-empowerment-women.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023 Public Service Delivery, Exclusion and Externalities: Theory and Experimental Evidence from India Invited Seminar
University of Essex (United Kingdom)
2023 It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman! Using Mass Media to Fight Intolerance Invited Seminar
University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
2023 It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman! Using Mass Media to Fight Intolerance Invited Seminar
Royal Holloway London (United Kingdom)
2023 It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman! Using Mass Media to Fight Intolerance Invited Seminar
King's College (United Kingdom)
2023 Public Service Delivery, Exclusion and Externalities: Theory and Experimental Evidence from India Barcelona GSE Summer Forum (Child health)
Barcelona GSE (Spain)
2022 Public Service Delivery, Exclusion and Externalities: Theory and Experimental Evidence from India Invited Seminar
Collegio Carlo Alberto (Italy)
2022 Public Service Delivery, Exclusion and Externalities: Theory and Experimental Evidence from India NBER Summer Institute (National Security, Urban Economics)
NBER (United States)
2022 Public Service Delivery, Exclusion and Externalities: Theory and Experimental Evidence from India IEA-UNDP-WB Conference on "Understanding the gender and climate change nexus"
International Economic Association (United States)
2022 The Effect of Nature's Wealth on Economic Development: Evidence from Wildlife Barcelona GSE Summer Forum (Child health)
Barcelona GSE (Spain)
2022 Windows of Peace: the Effect of Ceasefires on Economic Recovery Royal Holloway/Queen Mary Workshop on "The Political Economy of Conflict"
Queen Mary University (United Kingdom)
2022 Windows of Peace: the Effect of Ceasefires on Economic Recovery UNU-WIDER conference
UNU-WIDER (Finland)
2022 The Effect of Nature's Wealth on Economic Development: Evidence from Wildlife 9th IZA Workshop: Environment, Health and Labor Markets
IZA (Germany)
2022 Public Service Delivery, Exclusion and Externalities: Theory and Experimental Evidence from India LEAP conference
Bocconi University (Italy)
2022 Public Service Delivery, Exclusion and Externalities: Theory and Experimental Evidence from India NOVAFRICA Conference
Nova SBE (Portugal)
2021 Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique Infrastructure Masterclass
The World Bank (United States)
2020 Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique Invited Seminar
Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
2020 The Ocean and Early-Childhood Mortality and Development
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
2020 The Ocean and Early-Childhood Mortality and Development NEUDC
Dartmouth College (United States)
2020 The Ocean and Early-Childhood Mortality and Development BREAD/CEPR/STICERD/TCD Conference
CEPR (United Kingdom)
2019 The Reach of Radio: Ending Civil Conflict through Rebel Demobilization Economics department seminar series
University of Southampton (United Kingdom)
2019 Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique CSAE conference
Oxford University (United Kingdom)
2019 Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique Barcelona GSE Summer Forum
Barcelona GSE (Spain)
2018 The Reach of Radio: Ending Civil Conflict through Rebel Demobilization DIME seminar
The World Bank (United States)
2018 The Reach of Radio: Ending Civil Conflict through Rebel Demobilization
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)
2018 The Reach of Radio: Ending Civil Conflict through Rebel Demobilization
University of Bergen (Norway)
2018 Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique
Chr. Michelsen Institute (Norway)
2018 The Reach of Radio: Ending Civil Conflict through Rebel Demobilization RES Annual Meeting
Sussex University (United Kingdom)
2018 The Reach of Radio: Ending Civil Conflict through Rebel Demobilization CSAE conference
Oxford University (United Kingdom)
2018 Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique NEUDC
Cornell University (United States)
2017 The Reach of Radio: Ending Civil Conflict through Rebel Demobilization NEUDC
Tufts University (United States)
2017 Intra-household Resource Control, Subjective Expectations and Human Capital Investment SEHO Annual Meeting
San Diego University (United States)
2017 The Reach of Radio: Ending Civil Conflict through Rebel Demobilization SAEe Annual Meeting
Pompeu Fabra University (Spain)
2016 Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers
Paris School of Economics (France)
2016 Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique
Institute of Development Studies (Sussex University) (United Kingdom)
2016 Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers
Universidad de Alicante (Spain)
2015 Intra-household Resource Control, Subjective Expectations and Human Capital Investment AEA/ASSA Annual Meeting
Boston University (United States)
2015 Intra-household Resource Control, Subjective Expectations and Human Capital Investment NEUDC
Brown University (United States)
2015 Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers EEA Annual Meeting
Mannheim University (Germany)
2014 Intra-household Resource Control, Subjective Expectations and Human Capital Investment EALE Annual Meeting
Ljubljana University (Slovenia)
2014 Intra-household Resource Control, Subjective Expectations and Human Capital Investment PacDev Conference
UCLA (United States)

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023 Essays in Development Economics Stefan Leeffers (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2023 Essays in Inequality, Conflict and Politics Matilde Grácio (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2022 Essays on the Political Economy of the Colombian Conflict Juan Pablo Posada Aparicio (PhD)
The University of Western Australia, Australia
2020 Essays in Development Economics: the Uptake of New Technologies Rute Caeiro (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2021 - 2022 Member of the Ethics Committee
Member
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2014 - 2018 Member of the Hiring Committee
Member
 Universidad de Navarra Facultad de Económicas, Spain

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2024/06 - Current 2024 NOVAFRICA Conference Nova School of Business and Economics
2022/06 - Current 2022 NOVAFRICA Conference Nova School of Business and Economics

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2016 - 2020 Consultant for the evaluation of the grant program for vocational education Ministry of Education, Macedonia
2016 - 2018 Evaluation Consultant for the Youth Ready Program in El Salvador and Honduras World Vision Canada, Canada
2012 - 2015 Survey Specialist for the STEP Skills Measurement program World Bank, United States

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2021 - Current Microeconometrics Master in Economics / Master in Finance (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2019 - Current Global economics Economics (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2019 - Current Development economics Economics (Doutoramento) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2015 - 2019 Microeconometrics Master in Economics and Finance (Master) Universidad de Navarra Facultad de Económicas, Spain
2018/08 - 2018/08 Policy Evaluation for Practitioners Policy Evaluation for Practitioners (Master) Instituto Desarrollo Paraguay, Paraguay
2017 - 2018 Development economics Master in Economics (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
2015 - 2016 Development economics Master in Economics and Finance (Master) Universidad de Navarra Facultad de Económicas, Spain
2009 - 2014 Econometrics for macroeconomics Economics (Bachelor) University College London Department of Economics, United Kingdom
2009 - 2010 International trade Economics (Bachelor) University College London Department of Economics, United Kingdom
2007 - 2009 Economic Policy Analysis Economic Policy Analysis (Bachelor) University College London Department of Economics, United Kingdom
Distinctions

Award

2022 World Bank Economic Review - Excellence in Refereeing Award
World Bank, United States
2019 Eckstein Prize
University of Michigan Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy, United States
2014 Young Labour Economist Prize
European Association of Labour Economists, Netherlands