O15 | Economic Research Southern Africa

JEL code: O15

Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

The long-term effects of early-life exposure to weather shocks: Evidence from Tanzania

We examine whether early-life exposure to rainfall shocks has a lon...

Ermias G. Weldesenbet

Working Paper

Policy Bulletin 02: Reflections on Aspects of Public Finance and Fiscal Policy in South...

After the COVID-19 crisis is over, South Africa will face a fiscal ...

Estian Calitz

Policy Bulletin

The impacts of unconditional cash transfers on schooling in adolescence and young adult...

I study an expansion of a South African social grant program that p...

Neryvia Pillay Bell

Working Paper

Access to micro and informal loans: evaluating the impact on the quality of life of poo...

Since the early 1980s, many governments have investigated the possi...

Talita Dalton-Greyling

Policy Brief

Quality of life: validation of an instrument and analysis of relationships between dime...

Background The conventional approach to measuring quality of life w...

Talita Dalton-Greyling

Policy Brief

Access to micro – and informal loans: evaluating the impact on the quality of life of p...

Background: Since the early 1980s, many governments have investigat...

Talita Dalton-Greyling, Stephanié Rossouw

Working Paper

Quality of life: Validation of an instrument and analysis of relationships between domains

Quality of life (QoL) is now widely recognised as a multidimensiona...

Talita Dalton-Greyling, Fiona Tregenna

Working Paper

Impact of internal in- migration on income inequality in receiving areas: A district le...

The impact of internal migration on regional income inequality of t...

Umakrishnan Kollamparambil

Policy Brief

Non-Economic Quality of Life and Population Density in South Africa

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship betwee...

Talita Dalton-Greyling, Stephanié Rossouw

Working Paper

How Does Human Capital Shape the Social Contract?

This research brief presents the key findings and potential policy ...

Biniam E. Bedasso

Policy Brief

The expected well-being of urban refugees and asylum seekers in Johannesburg

The influx of asylum seekers and refugees from across Africa to dem...

Talita Dalton-Greyling

Working Paper

Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Class Size on Educational Achievement in Lesotho

Understanding class size effects on educational achievement remains...

Ramaele Moshoeshoe

Working Paper

Construction and analysis of a composite quality of life index for a region of South Af...

This study employs a novel approach to measure and analyse quality ...

Talita Dalton-Greyling, Fiona Tregenna

Working Paper

Recurrent Property Rates - The Search for a Fair Tax Conducive to Economic Growth

The conflict between the need to attend to acute poverty in the pre...

David Garber

Policy Brief

Economic Growth and Inequality: Evidence from the Young Democracies of South America

We investigate in this paper whether income growth has played any r...

Manoel Bittencourt

Working Paper

Effects of Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Education on Conflict Intensity in Africa

This study investigates the impact of different dimensions of schoo...

Julius A. Agbor

Working Paper

Does Famine Matter For Aggregate Adolescent Human Capital Acquisition In Sub-Saharan Af...

To the extent that in utero and childhood malnutrition negatively a...

Julius A. Agbor, Gregory N. Price

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

Does School Education Reduce the Likelihood of Societal Conflict in Africa?

This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that education, as meas...

Julius A. Agbor

Working Paper

Climate Change Disaster Management: Mitigation and Adaptation in a Public Goods Framework

This paper explores the collective action problem as it relates to ...

Åsa Löfgren, Reviva Hasson, Martine Visser

Working Paper

The Economic Origins of Twentieth Century Decolonisation in West Africa

This paper argues that the pattern of decolonisation in West Africa...

Julius A. Agbor

Working Paper

A theory of colonial goverance

This paper considers conditions of optimality in a co-optive strate...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Julius A. Agbor, Nicola Viegi

Working Paper

A regional perspective on Aid and FDI in Southern Africa

The global trend for official development assistance continues to d...

Henri Bezuidenhout

Policy Brief

Characterizing Conflict Forms

This paper presents a model in which two groups in society are enga...

Chandana Kularatne, Johannes W. Fedderke

Working Paper

Orphanhood and Schooling in South Africa: Trends in the vulnerability of orphans betwee...

Using 11 nationally representative surveys conducted between 1993 a...

Cally Ardington

Working Paper

Does training benefit those who do not get any? Elasticities of complementarity and fac...

Commentators claim a shortage of skills, particularly artisanal lab...

Alberto Behar

Working Paper

Schooling as a Lottery: Racial Differences in School Advancement in Urban South Africa

This paper develops a stochastic model of grade repetition to analy...

Murray Leibbrandt, David Lam, Cally Ardington

Working Paper