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Foresight Africa 2023: Presentation

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

Aloysius Uche Ordu

Workshop Presentation

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

Request for proposals: Economics of Basic Income Support

In response to the government’s proposal that the Social Relief of ...

ERSA

Skills Development

Call for Work: Request for proposals: Economics of Basic Income Support

In response to the government’s proposal that the Social Relief of ...

Call for Work

Bridging the Divide in Economics

The ERSA Bridging the Divide in Economics initiative focuses on rep...

ERSA

BTD Workshop

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

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

Yoseph Y. Getachew

Working Paper

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

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

Kabeya C. Mulamba

Working Paper

A Sequence to Reverse Poverty: Institutions, State Capacity and Human Empowerment

This paper explores the fundamental or deep causes of poverty persi...

Sansia Blackmore, Reneé van Eyden

Working Paper

A fiscus for better economic and social development in South Africa

After showing that the bulk of government expenditure is unproducti...

Francois J. Stofberg, Jan H. van Heerden, Heinrich R. Bohlmann

Working Paper

The Effect of Tobacco and Alcohol Control Policies on Household Spending Patterns in Ke...

This paper examines the effect of tobacco and alcohol control polic...

Abel O. Nyagwachi, Grieve Chelwa, Corné van Walbeek

Working Paper

Dr Neryvia Pillay Bell on the Fiscal response to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa:...

In this podcast Dr Neryvia Pillay Bell, a Policy Associate at ERSA ...

Neryvia Pillay Bell

Podcast

Efficiency of provincial public healthcare in South Africa

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

Goodness C. Aye, Victor Ngobeni, Marthinus C. Breitenbach

Working Paper

Pricing electricity blackouts among South African households

Lack of information about households’ welfare losses could lead to ...

Johane Dikgang, Nomsa P. Nkosi

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...

Fredrick M. Wamalwa, Justine Burns

Policy Brief

Naturally Available Pollinator Decline Will Decrease Household Food and Increase Gender...

This multi-country analysis studies the food security implications ...

Byela Tibesigwa

Working Paper

Family-type Public Goods and Intra-Household Decision-Making by Co-Resident South Afric...

Intra-household decision-making is a fundamental development issue,...

Frederik Booysen, Sevias Guvuriro

Policy Brief

Gender and birth order effects on intra-household schooling choices and education attai...

In this paper, we investigate the effect of two important family ch...

Justine Burns, Fredrick M. Wamalwa

Working Paper

Black living standards in South Africa before democracy

The history of living standards in South Africa is a complex and in...

Bokang Mpeta, Kris Inwood, Johan Fourie

Policy Brief

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

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

Steven F. Koch

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 ...

Kris Inwood, Johan Fourie, Bokang Mpeta

Working Paper

The impact of monetary policy on household consumption in South Africa

The monetary policy committee of South Africa’s Reserve Bank (SARB)...

Emmanuel Owusu-Sekyere

Policy Brief

The impact of monetary policy on household consumption in South Africa. Evidence from V...

This paper investigates the “cost of credit effect” of monetary pol...

Emmanuel Owusu-Sekyere

Working Paper

Price-setting Behavior and Competition in Developing Countries: An Analysis of Retail O...

We study the relationship between price-setting behavior and the de...

Mamello A. Nchake, Lawrence Edwards, Asha Sundaram

Working Paper

Rising unemployment in post-apartheid South Africa: temporary or persistent?

The fact that South Africa’s high unemployment rate continued to ri...

Rulof P. Burger, Dieter von Fintel

Policy Brief

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

Assessing the Causal Impact of Tobacco Expenditure on Household Spending Patterns in Za...

This paper adds to the literature on the crowding out effect of tob...

Grieve Chelwa

Working Paper

Remittances and sustainability of family livelihoods in Zimbabwe: Case Study of Chegutu...

Zimbabwe had witnessed socio-economic challenges that resulted in m...

Syden Mishi, Lilymore Mudziwapasi

Working Paper

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

A Comparison of Inflation Expectations and Inflation Credibility in South Africa: Resul...

This paper reports a comparison of South African household inflatio...

Vishnu Padayachee, Jannie Rossouw, Adél Bosch

Policy Brief

Households & Labour Markets

ERSA is pleased to announce a 2 day workshop to take place in Durba...

ERSA

Workshop

‘Who replies in brackets and what are the implications for earnings estimates? An analy...

In household surveys, earnings data typically can be reported as po...

Dorrit Posel, Daniela Casale

Working Paper

Human and social capital in Soweto in 1999 - preliminary report on field study: Backgro...

Policy Paper (Interest) 04 This paper summarises data that were gat...

Policy Paper

A profile of the self-employed in Soweto in mid-1999, with gender disaggregation: A rep...

Policy Paper (Interest) 15 This article gives a detailed profile of...

Barbara Piazza-Georgi

Policy Paper

Forms of social capital in present-day Soweto: A factor analysis of household survey data

Policy Paper (Interest) 18 This paper analyses data on social capit...

Barbara Piazza-Georgi

Policy Paper