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Foresight Africa 2023: A Southern African Perspective

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

Published: 14 February 2023

Dialogue

Dr Channing Arndt on Building back fairer from the Covid-19 Pandemic in South Africa

Post-pandemic, South Africa’s economy finds itself in a constrained...

Published: 19 November 2021

Podcast

Part 4: Building back for a sustainable future

The discussion is based on two papers: “Building back fairer ...

Published: 10 November 2021

Dialogue

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

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

Published: 23 March 2021

Working Paper

Health inequality and the 1918 Influenza in South Africa

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

Published: 8 February 2021

Working Paper

‘Quantitative Easing' and central bank asset purchases in South Africa: A DSGE approach

This paper develops a small open-economy (SOE) dynamic stochastic g...

Published: 30 November 2020

Impact of Social Transfers on Depressive Symptoms: Evidence from the South African Old ...

We study the effect of income receipt in form of Old age pension (...

Published: 20 October 2020

Working Paper

Does household net financial wealth explain the asymmetric reaction of household consum...

Ndou et al (2019) showed that, in absolute terms, the decline in ho...

Published: 14 September 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

Nicola Viegi on the South African economic response to the Coronavirus: policies and pr...

Nicola Viegi, Deputy Director of ERSA, talks with Margaux G on the ...

Published: 8 April 2020

Podcast

Efficiency of provincial public healthcare in South Africa

Background Forty-nine million people or 83 per cent of the entire p...

Published: 7 February 2020

Working Paper

Can paid maternity leave improve childhood health?

Evidence from California shows that paid maternity leave leads to i...

Published: 11 June 2019

Policy Brief

Who benefits from South African Child Support Grant: The role of gender and birthweight

Stunting (low height-for-age) is known to be a good proxy for a chi...

Published: 6 May 2019

Working Paper

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

Parental bargaining and rural-urban child health differential in Tanzania

This paper extends the empirical analysis of child health by simult...

Published: 6 October 2017

Policy Brief

The Reaction of Inflation to Macroeconomic Shocks: The Case of Zimbabwe (2009 – 2012)

This paper empirically investigates the reaction of inflation to ma...

Published: 1 September 2017

Working Paper

Modelling exchange rate volatility dynamics: Empirical evidence from South Africa

In this paper, we extend the literature on modelling exchange rate ...

Published: 30 August 2017

Working Paper

Obesity Based Labour Market Discrimination in South Africa: A Dynamic Panel Analysis

There is increasing concern regarding obesity related healthcare co...

Published: 24 August 2017

Working Paper

An Econometric Method for Estimating Population Parameters from Non-Random Samples: An...

The problem of sample selection complicates the process of drawing ...

Published: 19 July 2017

Working Paper

Does the Equivalence Scale Matter? Equivalence and Out-of-Pocket Payments

We evaluate the effects of different equivalence scale parameter es...

Published: 12 June 2017

Policy Brief

Demand-side determinants of access to healthcare services: Empirical evidence from Africa

Better health status is influenced by access to health care, among ...

Published: 28 February 2017

Policy Brief

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

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

Published: 23 February 2017

Working Paper

Has South Africa’s Investment in Public Health Care Improved Health Outcomes?

South Africa’s total expenditure on health equates to almost 9% of ...

Published: 9 February 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

The behaviour of the real effective exchange rate of South Africa: is there a misalignm...

The paper uses Behavioural Equilibrium Exchange Rate methodology to...

Published: 20 October 2016

Working Paper

Demand-side determinants of access to healthcare service: Empirical evidence from Africa

This study identifies the key determinants of access to healthcare ...

Published: 12 October 2016

Working Paper

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

Contraceptive Use and Birth Intervals

We develop a model linking contraceptive effi ciency to birth spaci...

Published: 8 December 2015

Working Paper

Social networks and maternal health care utilisation in Tanzania

Social networks are increasingly being recognised as having an impo...

Published: 27 August 2015

Working Paper

The Demand for Reproductive Health Care

This research formalizes the interactions between the various deter...

Published: 4 August 2015

Working Paper

User Fee Abolition in South Africa: 1994 and 1996

In addition to birthing a new Democracy, 1994 was the beginning of ...

Published: 7 April 2015

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...

Published: 5 March 2015

Working Paper

The Influence of Higher Moments and Non-Normality on the Sharpe Ratio: A South African ...

Although the general assumption is that daily and monthly returns d...

Published: 5 February 2015

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 ...

Published: 12 November 2014

Working Paper

The Impact of Obesity on Employment in South Africa

Obesity is a growing health problem in South Africa. This health pr...

Published: 27 October 2014

Working Paper

The Relative (in)Efficiency of South African Municipalities in Providing Public Health ...

Previous studies in South Africa have not dis-aggregated efficiency...

Published: 27 October 2014

Working Paper