Wayne Sandholtz is an Assistant Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics, and a resident member at NOVAFRICA. He works primarily in the fields of Development, Education, and Political Economy. Some of his recent projects have examined the learning impacts of public-private school partnerships in Liberia, and electoral returns to public service provision in developing democracies. He has carried our field experiments in Liberia, Tanzania, and Uganda.

2020 - Ph.D.in Economics - University of California San Diego

2012 - Bachelor in Economics (Magna Cum Laude) - Brigham Young University

Development, Education, Political Economy, Public Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Field Experiments 

• Ferreira, João R., Sandholtz, Wayne Aaron (2026). Sibling spillovers and free schooling. (Accepted/In press) Review of Economics and Statistics.
• Romero, Mauricio, Sandefur, Justin, Sandholtz, Wayne Aaron (2020). Outsourcing education: experimental evidence from Liberia. American Economic Review, 110 (2), 364-400.

• Armand, Alex, Mendonça, Frederica, Sandholtz, Wayne Aaron, Vicente, Pedro C. (Mar 2025), 104 p., (Nova School of Business & Economics, n. 670), On the political economy of urbanization: Experimental evidence from Mozambique.
• Ferreira, João R., Sandholtz, Wayne Aaron (Oct 2025), 87 p., (Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business & Economics, n. 677), Sibling spillovers and free schooling.
• Sandholtz, Wayne Aaron, Vicente, Pedro C. (Mar 2025), 41 p., (Nova School of Business & Economics, n. 671), Tax morale, public goods, and politics: Experimental evidence from Mozambique.