Social welfare | Economic Research Southern Africa

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‘The Prince and the Pauper’: The effect of inherited-wealth status on productivity in t...

This experiment contributes to the developing literature on the rel...

Dr Sofia Monteiro, Patrizio Piraino, Justine Burns

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A Longitudinal Analysis of the Demand for Cigarettes in South Africa

Tobacco use is a major health problem, resulting in many millions o...

Alfred K. Mukong

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The household effects of very large electricity tariff hikes in Zambia

This paper simulates the real household expenditure effects of elec...

Akabondo Kabechani, Mashekwa Maboshe, Grieve Chelwa

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Regional disparities in income-independent quality of life in South African municipalit...

Background: Since 1994, the South African government has introduced...

Talita Dalton-Greyling, Stephanié Rossouw

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The Prince and the Pauper: The effect of inherited-wealth status on productivity in the...

There is limited theory and empirical evidence about the effects of...

Justine Burns, Dr Sofia Monteiro, Patrizio Piraino

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Regional disparities in income-independent quality of life in South Africa: convergence...

The purpose of this study is to add to the empirical literature reg...

Trust R. Mpofu, Stephanié Rossouw, Talita Dalton-Greyling

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Risk Preferences and the Poverty Trap: A Look at Technology Uptake amongst Smallholder ...

A number of studies suggest the risk preference of low income indiv...

Martine Visser, Kerri Brick, Hafsah Jumare

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Flow specific capital controls for emerging markets

This paper investigates the impact of capital controls on business ...

Guangling Liu, Chris Garbers

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Welfare and Environmental Impact of Incentive Based Conservation: Evidence from Kenyan ...

This paper focuses on whether the provision of landless forest-adja...

Edwin Muchapondwa, Boscow Okumu

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The Elasticity of Taxable Income: The case of South Africa

A central tax policy parameter that has received much attention int...

Johannes H. Kemp

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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

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Aid Volatility and Structural Economic Transformation in sub-Saharan Africa

To what extent does Official Development Assistance (ODA) volatilit...

Thomas Yeboah, Muazu Ibrahim, Emmanuel Kumi

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

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

Steven F. Koch

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The welfare cost of macro-prudential policy in a two-country DSGE model

This paper builds a two-country DSGE model with financial frictions...

Hilary Patroba

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Lifestyle and Income-related Inequality in Health in South Africa

Evidence suggests that lifestyle factors may explain the income-rel...

Hana Ross, Corné van Walbeek, Alfred K. Mukong

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

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

Wa Ntita Serge Kabongo, Josue Mbonigaba

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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

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Aid Volatility and Structural Economic Transformation in sub-Saharan Africa: Does Finan...

This paper departs from the traditional aid–economic growth studies...

Thomas Yeboah, Muazu Ibrahim, Emmanuel Kumi

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Small-scale farming and food security: the enabling role of cash transfers in South Afr...

Cash transfers successfully alleviate poverty in many developing co...

Louw Pienaar, Dieter von Fintel

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Intergenerational mobility during industrial take-off

Using a novel dataset of genealogical records, we make the first at...

Johan Fourie, Jeanne Cilliers

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

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

Wa Ntita Serge Kabongo, Josue Mbonigaba

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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

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Effects of wildlife resources on community welfare: Income, poverty and inequality

This paper demonstrates the importance of wildlife in the portfolio...

Edwin Muchapondwa, Herbert Ntuli

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Social mobility during South Africa’s industrial take-off

In the absence of historical income or education data, the change i...

Johan Fourie, Jeanne Cilliers

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Financial development and income inequality in Africa: A panel heterogeneous approach

Although the financial sector of Africa has witnessed massive refor...

Anthanasius F. Tita, Meshach J. Aziakpono

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Estimating Income Mobility When Income is Measured with Error: The Case of South Africa

There are long-standing concerns that household income mobility is ...

Asmus Zoch, Stephan Klasen, Rulof P. Burger

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“Sometimes you don't make enough to buy food” - an analysis of South African street was...

In this paper we use income data of 873 street waste pickers in Sou...

Kotie J. M. M. Viljoen, Catherina J. Schenck, Phillip F. Blaauw

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Private Wealth in a Developing Country: A South African Perspective on Piketty

The point of departure of Thomas Piketty’s influential Capital in t...

Anna Orthofer

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Gender Differences in Climate Change Risk, Food Security and Adaptation: A Study of Rur...

Climate and weather variability in sub-Saharan Africa disproportion...

M. Collinson, Wayne Twine, Martine Visser, L. Hunter, Byela Tibesigwa

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Art investment as a portfolio diversification strategy in South Africa

Art has been suggested as a good way to diversify investment portfo...

Brett Scott, Jen D. Snowball, Ferdi Botha

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What we talk about when we talk about saving: Concepts and measures of household saving...

South African household savings rates have been declining steadily ...

Anna Orthofer

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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

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

Understanding class size effects on educational achievement remains...

Ramaele Moshoeshoe

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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

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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

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Investigating the Sensitivity of Household Food Security to Agriculture-related Shocks ...

Resource-poor rural South Africa is characterised by high human den...

Wayne Twine, Martine Visser, Byela Tibesigwa

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