N37 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: N37

Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Africa; Oceania

Impact of technological progress on carbon emissions in different country income groups

This study examines the complex relationship between carbon emissio...

Roula Inglesi-Lotz, Chris B. Milindi

Working Paper

Health inequality and the 1918 Influenza in South Africa

The 1918 influenza – the Spanish ﬂu – killed an estimated 6% of Sou...

Jonathan Jayes, Johan Fourie

Working Paper

Trade Openness and Fertility Rates in Africa: Panel Data Evidence

We study the effect of trade openness on fertility rates in fifty A...

Matthew W. Clance, Yoseph Y. Getachew, Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Black living standards in South Africa before democracy: New evidence from heights

Very little income or wage data was systematically recorded on the ...

Kris Inwood, Johan Fourie, Bokang Mpeta

Working Paper

Intergenerational mobility during industrial take-off

Using a novel dataset of genealogical records, we make the first at...

Johan Fourie, Jeanne Cilliers

Policy Brief

Why local context matters: de jure and de facto property rights in colonial South Africa

For economic transactions, including debt transactions, to occur in...

Johan Fourie, Christie Swanepoel

Working Paper

Social mobility during South Africa’s industrial take-off

In the absence of historical income or education data, the change i...

Johan Fourie, Jeanne Cilliers

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

When selection trumps persistence: The lasting effect of missionary education in South ...

To estimate the long-term, persistent effects of missionary educati...

Johan Fourie, Christie Swanepoel

Working Paper

Father's Employment and Sons' Stature: The Long Running Effects of a Positive Regional ...

I exploit the unexpected increase in employment in 1975, 76 and 77 ...

Martine Mariotti

Working Paper

The missing people: Accounting for indigenous populations in Cape Colonial history

Because information about the livelihoods of indigenous groups is o...

Johan Fourie, Erik Green

Working Paper

Slave Prices and Productivity in the 18th Century at the Cape of Good Hope: The Winners...

The question about the productivity of slavery is a strongly debate...

Ada Jansen, Sophia du Plessis, Dieter von Fintel

Working Paper

Social Capital and Human Capital in the Colonies: A Study of Cocoa Farmers in Western N...

I examine the relationship between social and human capital in colo...

Nonso Obikili

Working Paper

The Impact of the Slave Trade on Literacy in Africa: Evidence from the Colonial Era

Recent studies have highlighted the importance of Africa’s hi...

Nonso Obikili

Working Paper

A country of migrants: Advances in South African economic history

South Africa is a country of migrants. From the Bantu migration, th...

ERSA

Workshop

Heights and development in a Cash-Crop Colony: Living standards in Ghana, 1870-1980

While Ghana is a classic case of economic growth in an agricultural...

Jörg Baten, Gareth Austin, Alexander Moradi

Working Paper

Slave numeracy in the Cape Colony and comparative development in the eighteenth century

The lack of accurate measures of human capital formation often cons...

Jörg Baten, Johan Fourie

Working Paper

The wealth of the Cape Colony: Measurements from probate inventories

The stylized view of the Dutch Cape Colony (1652-1795) is of a poor...

Johan Fourie

Working Paper

Settler skills and colonial development

The emphasis on location-specific factors, such as climate or disea...

Johan Fourie, Dieter von Fintel

Working Paper

A history with evidence: Income inequality in the Dutch Cape Colony

The arrival of European settlers at the Cape in 1652 marked the beg...

Johan Fourie, Dieter von Fintel

Working Paper

The dynamics of inequality in a newly settled, preindustrial society: The case of the C...

Inequality is a major concern in many of the world’s developing reg...

Johan Fourie, Dieter von Fintel

Working Paper

Ship traffic and the economy of the Cape Colony: 1652-1793

Most historians regard the Cape Colony of the seventeenth and eight...

Willem H. Boshoff, Johan Fourie

Working Paper

Slavery and economic history research in South Africa - An ERSA Research Workshop

The fourth ERSA Economic History Workshop in November will focus on...

ERSA

Workshop