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Understanding the behaviour of house prices and household income per capita in South Af...

Homeownership by the lower and middle-income households is crucial ...

Pieter Opperman, Anthanasius F. Tita

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

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

Roula Inglesi-Lotz, Chris B. Milindi

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Reigniting economic growth: Lessons from three centuries of data

We estimate that since 1701, South Africa has experienced 163 years...

Edward Kerby, Roy Havemann

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

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

Lindokuhle T. Zungu, Lorraine Greyling

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Health inequality and the 1918 Influenza in South Africa

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

Jonathan Jayes, Johan Fourie

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Taxpayer responsiveness to taxation: Evidence from bunching at kink points of the South...

I apply the bunching methodology to South African administrative ta...

Neryvia Pillay Bell

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

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

Matthew W. Clance, Leoné Walters, Carolyn Chisadza

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The transmission of monetary policy via the banks' balance sheet - does bank size matter?

We study the credit channel of monetary policy in South Africa betw...

Tumisang Loate, Nicola Viegi

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

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

Yoseph Y. Getachew

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Estimating a New Keynesian Wage Phillips Curve

This paper estimates a New Keynesian Wage Phillips Curve for South ...

Nicola Viegi, Vincent Dadam

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The effects of technology intensity in manufacturing on CO2 emissions: Evidence from de...

Industrialisation is recognised as important for developing countri...

Fiona Tregenna, Elvis K. Avenyo

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

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

Kabeya C. Mulamba

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Social distancing in macroeconomic models

The paper introduces voluntary social distancing to the canonical e...

Yoseph Y. Getachew

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Measuring energy poverty in South Africa based on household required energy consumption

Energy poverty is a major concern in most of developing countries w...

Steven F. Koch, Yuxiang Yeú

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Time consistency and economic growth: A case study of South African macroeconomic policy

The numerous diagnostic studies and policy recommendations that exi...

Konstantin Makrelov, David Faulkner, Christopher Loewald

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

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

Cobus Vermeulen

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On sensitivity of Genetic Matching to the choice of balance measure

This paper considers the sensitivity of Genetic Matching (GenMatch)...

Adeola Oyenubi

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The time-varying elasticity of South African electricity demand: 1980–2018

This study estimates the price and income elasticity coefficients o...

Kabelo Masike, Cobus Vermeulen

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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 (...

Joseph Ajefu, Adeola Oyenubi

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The impact of AGOA on export flows from sub-Saharan Africa: A dynamic system GMM analysis

This study seeks to understand the relationship between the United ...

Paul Alagidede, Oro Ufuo

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Does Child Support Grant incentivise childbirth in South Africa?

We consider the perverse incentive that can be created for poor hou...

Umakrishnan Kollamparambil, Adeola Oyenubi

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How Buoyant Is the South African Tax System? An ARDL Approach

This study aims to scrutinize the responsiveness of the South Afric...

Nyasha Mahonye, Baneng Naape

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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...

Eliphas Ndou

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Examining the determinants of electricity demand by South African households per income...

For the period 1975 – 2016, this paper examines the determina...

Roula Inglesi-Lotz, Jessika A. Bohlmann

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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

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Prenatal health and weather-related shocks under social safety net policy in Kenya

Exposure to weather shocks around the time of birth has been shown ...

Djiby R. Thiam, Silas Ongudi

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The South African - United States Sovereign Bond Spread and its Association with Macroe...

The yield spread of South African to United States 10 year governme...

Johannes W. Fedderke

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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

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Forest commons, vertical integration and smallholder’s saving and investment responses:...

As the result of prohibitively high transaction costs, smallholder ...

Dambala Gelo

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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...

Herbert Ntuli, Benjamin Dovey

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Optimal Targeted Lockdowns in a Multi-Group SIR Model

We study targeted lockdowns in a multi-group SIR model where infect...

Michael D. Whinston, Victor Chernozhukovz, Iván Werning, Daron Acemoglu

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The political economy of palm oil expansion and deforestation in Indonesia

This paper studies the interactions between political and economic ...

Nunung Nuryartono, Krisztina Kis-Katosz, Elías Cisnerosy

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Late colonial antecedents of modern democracy

Some of the most contested questions in political science and polit...

Martin Rode, Christian Bjørnskov

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Contagion without deposit insurance: The South African small bank crisis of 2002/3

Following the failure of Saambou bank in February 2002, another sev...

Roy Havemann

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Financial Statecraft: Government Choice of Debt Instruments

We explore the diversity of means by which governments borrow ̵...

Layna Mosely, Eric Arias, B. Peter Rosendorff

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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...

Neryvia Pillay Bell

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