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Foresight Africa 2023: Presentation

Brookings Institution’s Flagship Foresight Africa 2023 was wr...

Published: 2 March 2023

Workshop Presentation

Foresight Africa 2023: A Southern African Perspective

Please join the Brookings Institution and Economics Research Southe...

Published: 14 February 2023

Dialogue

In memoriam Charles Simkins

Economist had a no-nonsense approach to analysing complicated pract...

Published: 15 December 2022

Politics Web

Second Annual UP PhD Workshop in Economics Held

This year’s workshop, organised by Manoel Bittencourt and Jes...

Published: 30 June 2022

University of Pretoria News Blog

2nd University of Pretoria PhD Workshop

Background and Objective: The Second University of Pretoria Economi...

Published: 11 April 2022

Webinar

Topics in the Economics of Education

This course will cover selected topics in the economics of educatio...

Published: 11 August 2021

Graduate Training

Prof Andreas Wörgötter on addressing current and persisting challenges in South Africa’...

At a time when tensions are rising due to growing inequality and un...

Published: 23 July 2021

Podcast

Part 2: Recovery policies and labour utilization

The discussion is based on two research papers: Recovering from COV...

Published: 16 July 2021

Dialogue

Financial development and income inequality: a nonlinear econometric analysis of 21 Afr...

A panel data analysis of financial inequality was conducted using t...

Published: 15 February 2021

Working Paper

The eﬀect of colonial and pre-colonial institutions on contemporary education in Africa

This paper argues that contrary to previous ﬁndings, present-day ed...

Published: 1 February 2021

Working Paper

Phases of higher education, tuition grants, and equity-efficiency tradeoff

We study how taxes and alternative higher education subsidies affec...

Published: 28 January 2021

Working Paper

Relationship between education and households’ electricity-saving behaviour in South Af...

This paper investigates the relationship between the education leve...

Published: 13 January 2021

Working Paper

Online Course: Topics in the Economics of Education

This course will cover selected topics in the economics of educatio...

Published: 1 December 2020

Online Course

Consumer Preferences for Genetically Modified Organisms in Cape Town: A Choice Experime...

This paper reports a study done on Cape Town consumers, with the ai...

Published: 31 July 2020

Working Paper

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...

Published: 28 May 2020

Working Paper

Prof. Johanne Fedderke on the differential impact of the Coronavirus as of end of March...

Professor Johannes W. Fedderke, the Director of ERSA speaks to our ...

Published: 8 April 2020

Podcast

The effects of presentation formats in choice experiments

Although stated-preference surveys take various forms, the use of e...

Published: 24 October 2019

Policy Brief

Skills, employment, strong local institutions and good relationships between people and...

Subsistence poaching can severely threaten biodiversity and communi...

Published: 25 September 2019

Policy Brief

Motivating teachers in rural Zambia using a monetary incentive

Like many developing countries, the achievement gap between rural a...

Published: 5 March 2019

Policy Brief

Skill Shortages as a Barrier to Women’s Start Ups: A Model with Evidence from Eswatini

The shortages of entrepreneurial skills, both perceived and actual,...

Published: 7 December 2018

Policy Brief

Teacher pay and educational outcomes: Evidence from the rural hardship allowance in Zambia

This paper studies the effect of unconditional teacher salary incre...

Published: 8 October 2018

Working Paper

Emigration and education: the schooling of the left behind in Nigeria

The potential effects of migration on the welfare of the left behin...

Published: 7 August 2018

Policy Brief

Gender and Birth Order Effects on Intra-Household Schooling Choices and Educational Att...

Many schooling decisions take place within the family. For instance...

Published: 21 May 2018

Policy Brief

Teacher human capital, teacher effort and student achievements in Kenya

Although research generally shows that teachers matter for student ...

Published: 3 January 2018

Policy Brief

Private schools and student learning achievements in Kenya

This papers examines the effect of private schools on literacy and ...

Published: 15 June 2017

Policy Brief

The effect of education on a country’s energy consumption: Evidence from developed and ...

Education has been regarded throughout history as one of the main d...

Published: 8 May 2017

Working Paper

The Interdependence between the Saving Rate and Technology across Regimes: Evidence fro...

This paper hypothesises that the saving rate and technological prog...

Published: 24 March 2017

Policy Brief

Birth order effects on education attainment and child labour: Evidence from Lesotho

Education (both school enrolment and achievement) is low in much of...

Published: 22 November 2016

Policy Brief

Birth Order Effects on Educational Attainment and Child Labour: Evidence from Lesotho

This paper examines the e ffect of birth order on educational attai...

Published: 8 July 2016

Working Paper

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who is the Most Central of Them All?

In academia, informal collaboration is an integral element in the p...

Published: 7 January 2016

Working Paper

Assessing the impact of just-in-time methodology, in-lecture activities, and tutor-assi...

This paper focuses on the introduction of blended-learning as appli...

Published: 1 December 2015

Working Paper

How Does Human Capital Shape the Social Contract?

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

Published: 13 October 2015

Policy Brief

College Major Choice, Spatial Inequality and Elite Formation: Evidence from South Africa

This paper explores the determinants of college major choice in the...

Published: 29 September 2015

Policy Brief

Four Lessons from the Greek sovereign debt crisis

Over the past five years the Greek economy has steadily deteriorate...

Published: 21 July 2015

Policy Brief

Does Massive Research Funding Work?: Lessons from South Africa

Does research output increase significantly when funding allocation...

Published: 14 April 2015

Policy Brief

The effects of social media on cognitive development in undergraduate economics students

The study attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of social media on...

Published: 10 April 2015

Working Paper