Steven F. Koch | Economic Research Southern Africa

Contributor Name: Steven F. Koch

Professor Steven Koch is the Head of the Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is Director of African Finance & Economics Association. He is member of University of Pretoria Research and Postgraduate Committee of Senate and Economic Society of South Africa Council. He is also the Managing Editor of South African Journal of Economics. His research interest area are Health and Labour Economics, Household Finances and Welfare, Environmental Economics and Competition Policy.

Modelling required energy consumption with equivalence

This study proposes an equivalence scale model for required energy ...

Yuxiang Ye, Steven F. Koch, Jiangfeng Zhang

Working Paper

Equivalence scales with endogeneity and base independence

This study estimates food budget share equations to calculate house...

Steven F. Koch

Working Paper

Household debt and consumption dynamics: A non-developed world view following the ﬁnanc...

According to recent macroeconomic evidence (Bosch and Koch 2020b; F...

Matthew W. Clance, Steven F. Koch, Adél Bosch

Working Paper

Measuring energy poverty in South Africa based on household required energy consumption

Energy poverty is a major concern in most of developing countries w...

Steven F. Koch, Yuxiang Yeú

Working Paper

Does the Equivalence Scale Matter? Equivalence and Out-of-Pocket Payments

This research questions that estimate, since it was based, in part,...

Steven F. Koch

Policy Brief

Does the Equivalence Scale Matter? Equivalence and Out-of-Pocket Payments

We evaluate the effects of different equivalence scale parameter es...

Steven F. Koch

Policy Brief

Contraceptive Use and Birth Intervals

We develop a model linking contraceptive effi ciency to birth spaci...

Steven F. Koch, Gauthier Tshiswaka-Kashalala

Working Paper

The Demand for Reproductive Health Care

This research formalizes the interactions between the various deter...

Steven F. Koch, Gauthier Tshiswaka-Kashalala

Working Paper

User Fee Abolition in South Africa: 1994 and 1996

In addition to birthing a new Democracy, 1994 was the beginning of ...

Steven F. Koch

Policy Brief

The Economic Approach to Fertility: A Causal Mediation Analysis

This study develops an economic fertility model which explicitly in...

Working Paper

The Economic Approach to Fertility: A Causal Mediation Analysis

This study develops an economic fertility model which explicitly in...

Steven F. Koch, Gauthier Tshiswaka-Kashalala

Working Paper

Using a Natural Experiment to Examine Tobacco Tax Regressivity

We take advantage of a tobacco tax hike that occurred during the co...

Steven F. Koch, Adél Bosch

Working Paper

User Fee Abolition in South Africa in 1994 and 1996: Differences-in-Differences

South Africa waived user fees for primary health care, first in 199...

Steven F. Koch, Anna S. Brink

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Assessing regional variation in the effect of the removal of user fees on institutional...

This paper examines regional differences in the effect of user fee ...

Steven F. Koch, Chitalu M. Chama-Chiliba

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Do the Poor Benefit from Devolution Policies? Evidences from Quantile Treatment Effect ...

Existing literature have rarely evaluated distributive effect of Jo...

Steven F. Koch, Edwin Muchapondwa, Dambala Gelo

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Health Care Facility Choice and User Fee Abolition: Regression Discontinuity in a Multi...

We apply parametric and nonparametric regression discontinuity meth...

Steven F. Koch, Jeffrey S. Racine

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Health insurance or food for the family? An examination into unintended consequences

Policy Paper 15 In developing countries, where health insurance is ...

Steven F. Koch, Olufunke Alaba

Policy Paper

Love and addiction: The importance of commitment

Policy Paper 04 The bilaterally monopolistic nature of relationship...

Steven F. Koch

Policy Paper

Technical barriers to trade faced by South African SMME’s

Policy Paper 02 South Africa is an open economy, and, therefore, it...

Michael A. Peet, Steven F. Koch

Policy Paper

The Abolition of User Fees and the Demand for Health Care: Re-evaluating the Impact

The impact of the abolition of user fees in South Africa, a policy ...

Steven F. Koch

Working Paper

The Consistency of Merger Decisions in a Developing Country: The South African Competit...

The South African Competition Commission’s merger decisions f...

Richard J. Grimbeek, Sunel Grimbeek, Steven F. Koch

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Welfare and common property rights forestry: Evidence from Ethiopian villages

In this study, welfare impacts associated with a unique common-prop...

Dambala Gelo, Steven F. Koch

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Contingent valuation of community forestry programs in Ethiopia: Observing preference a...

This study examines the potential for anomalous response behaviour ...

Steven F. Koch, Dambala Gelo

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Does One Size Fit All? Heterogeneity in the Valuation of Community Forestry Programs?

Through the implementation of a choice experiment valuation exercis...

Steven F. Koch, Dambala Gelo

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Property rights, institutions and source of fuel wood in rural Ethiopia

This study examines the relationship between property rights, defin...

Steven F. Koch, Abebe Beyene

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Clean Fuel-Saving Technology Adoption in Urban Ethiopia

The heavy dependence and inefficient utilization of biomass resourc...

Steven F. Koch, Abebe Damte

Working Paper

An Analysis of Specialist Surgeons and their Practices

A purposive sample of South African doctors provided data for the a...

Steven F. Koch, Jean D. Slabbert

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Dynamic Health Care Decisions and Child Health in South Africa

A large number of child deaths in developing countries could be ave...

Steven F. Koch

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Returns to Schooling: Skills Accumulation or Information Revelation?

This paper explores the degree to which imperfect information in th...

Ssekabira Ntege, Steven F. Koch

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DEA Applied to a Gauteng Sample of South African Public Hospitals

The ability of the South African government to provide antiretrovir...

Steven F. Koch, Jacques K. Ngoie

Working Paper

The Aid and Maid System - South African Household Data Pitfalls

This paper presents research on South African household expenditure...

Steven F. Koch

Working Paper

Free public healtcare does not remove inequality of healthcare access

Despite the availability in South Africa of free public health care...

Steven F. Koch

Policy Brief