J16 | Economic Research Southern Africa

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UK – SA International Economic Partnership 

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PSG ThinkBigSA

THINK BIG SOUTH AFRICA In collaboration with ERSA (Economic Research...

Research Projects

Welcome to Economic Research Southern Africa's (ERSA) economic policy collaboration...
SAMNet

JEL code: J16

Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

Competition and Gender in the Lab vs Field: Experiments from off-grid Renewable Energy ...

We fill the gap by examining how gender attitudes and performance u...

Rebecca A. Klege, Rowan P. Clarke, Martine Visser, Manuel F. Barron

Working Paper

Gender and birth order effects on intra-household schooling choices and education attai...

In this paper, we investigate the effect of two important family ch...

Justine Burns, Fredrick M. Wamalwa

Working Paper

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Risk Aversion and Gender Discrimination in Assessment

This study exploits a natural experiment to evaluate the gender bia...

Nicholas Spearman, Jason Hartford

Working Paper

Indirect Taxation and Gender Equity: Evidence from South Africa

This paper explores the equity implications of indirect or consumpt...

Daniela Casale

Policy Brief

Underemployed women: an analysis of voluntary and involuntary part-time wage employment...

Using nationally representative household survey data from 1995 to ...

Colette Muller

Working Paper

Trends in the gender wage gap and gender discrimination among part-time and full-time w...

Using nationally representative household survey data from 1995 to ...

Colette Muller

Working Paper

Unions and the gender wage gap in South Africa

Studies of the wage effects of unions in South Africa have been con...

Dorrit Posel, Daniela Casale

Working Paper

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