Keyword: Education

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

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