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Boys will always be boys? The impacts of gender-based Affirmative Action and Role Models on competitiveness in the lab

Author: Hare, Aimee Elizabeth Date: 2018 Gender differences in labour market outcomes are pervasive in current society. Competitiveness is viewed as a possible factor contributing to the favourable labour market outcomes for men, with the stylised fact being that men are more ... Read more
The economics of language: accents, trust and social exchange in labour markets

Author: Yagman, Ece Date: 2014 This thesis examines the role that English language, and accent in particular, might play in strategic interactions characterized by asymmetric information. The experiment in this study - named the Trust Game - is designed to reveal the degree ... Read more
The effect of credit programme membership on food expenditure and child nutrition in rural Malawi : does female headship have a differential effect?

Author: Mhango, Yvonne Date: 2005 Although several country-level studies have investigated the impact of access to credit on various outcome variables, few of these studies have looked at the full effect of membership in a credit programme. This study was conducted on a ... Read more
Ethnolinguistic Diversity and the Provision of Public Goods: Experimental Evidence from South Africa

Author: Burns, Justine; Keswell, Malcolm Date: 28 May 2015 This paper utilises techniques in experimental economics to investigate the impact of racial identity on the provision of public goods. A large sample of Black and White undergraduate University students were recruited to participate in public ... Read more
Evaluating the Impact of Health Programmes

Author: Burns, Justine; Keswell, Malcolm; Thornton, Rebecca Date: 28 May 2015 This paper has two broad objectives. The first objective is broadly methodological and deals with some of the more pertinent estimation issues one should be aware of when studying the impact of health status on economic outcomes. We discuss ... Read more
Evaluating the impact of health programmes on productivity

Author: Keswell, Malcolm; Burns, Justine; Thornton, Rebecca Date: 28 May 2015 This article reviews some of the key methodological approaches available to researchers interested in identifying a causal relationship between health interventions and economic indicators of productivity. We then discuss some of the empirical ... Read more
Follow the child: the effect of an unconditional cash transfer on adolescent human capital and mental health

Author: Eyal, Katherine Date: 2016 In company with many other developing countries in the 1990s, South Africa introduced an unconditional cash transfer program for children, which had more than eleven million beneficiaries in 2014. The evaluation of similar cash transfer ... Read more
Formation of children's human capital in Kenya: The role of teachers, private schools and the family

Author: Wamalwa, Fredrick Masinde Date: 2017 In this thesis, we contribute to knowledge about the human capital formation of children in Kenya in three interrelated essays. We focus on Kenya due to the declining learning outcomes the country is experiencing, in the wake of increasing ... Read more
Gender and Risk Taking in the Classroom

Author: Burns, Justine; Halliday, Simon; Keswell, Malcolm Date: 28 May 2015 We examine whether differences in risk preferences explain gender differentials in test scores amongst a large class of undergraduate microeconomics students, where students were evaluated using multiple choice questions. In each of five class ... Read more
Getting the message: Using parental text messaging to increase learner attendance

Author: Owsley, Nicholas Date: 2017 This paper presents results from a randomised controlled trial in low-income neighbourhoods in Cape Town, South Africa, to test whether parental messages can increase learner attendance at after-school programmes. Parents who were randomly ... Read more
Handwashing behavior and habit formation in the household: evidence from the pilot randomized evaluation of HOPE SOAP© in South Africa

Author: Sellman, Abigail Date: 2018 Handwashing with soap at critical times is a simple and effective way to prevent the spread of communicable diseases, such as diarrhea and acute respiratory infection, which are major causes of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. ... Read more
Happiness, debt & depression Is there a relationship between debt and depression in South Africa?

Author: Sklair, Nathan Date: 2019 While poor financial circumstances have been associated with an increased likelihood of depression, the role of personal debt in determining individual mental health is not fully understood. This paper investigates the existence of a causal ... Read more
Income Inequality, Reciprocity and Public Good Provision: An Experimental Analysis

Author: Hofmeyr, Andre; Burns, Justine; Visser, Martine Date: 28 May 2015 This paper analyses the impact of income inequality on public good provision in an experimental setting. A sample of secondary school students were recruited to participate in a simple linear public goods game where income heterogeneity was ... Read more
Individual notions of distributive justice and relative economic status

Author: Barr, A.; Burns, Justine; Miller, L.; Shaw, I. Date: 28 May 2015 We present two experiments designed to investigate whether individuals notions of distributive justice are associated with their relative (within-society) economic status. Each participant played a specially designed four-person dictator game ... Read more
Inequality, Social Sanctions and Cooperation within South African Fishing

Author: Visser, Martine; Burns, Justine Date: 28 May 2015 We explore the effect of income inequality and social attitudes on the cooperation and sanctioning in nine South African fishing communities where allocation of fishing rights have been unequal and controversial. In the Punishment treatment ... Read more
Inheriting the Future: Intergenerational Persistence of Educational status in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Author: Burns, Justine; Keswell, Malcolm Date: 28 May 2015 This paper examines the changes in the educational attainment of three successive generations in South Africa: grandparents, parents and children. Many of the results accord with widely known facts, such as the educational penalty faced by ... Read more
Intra-Household Decision-Making and Resource Allocation, Social Networks and Social Cohesion

Author: Burns, Justine; Keswell, Malcolm Date: 06 Jun 2017 The household is central to most policy initiatives aimed at reducing poverty, since it has long been thought that this is the most efficient way to transfer income and other resources towards those in need. Indeed, the household provides an ... Read more
Labour market outcomes and the impacts of social networks: evidence from the Cape Town Metropolitan Area

Author: Rivett, Craig Date: 2011 This paper examines whether social networks have an effect on the decision to participate in the labour market by individuals in the greater Cape Town area. By using the fourth wave of the Cape Area Panel Study (CAPS) this paper empirically ... Read more
Neighbourhood effects in educational outcomes with non-random assignment : a memberships approach

Author: De Villiers, Madeleine Date: 2005 This paper uses a unique dataset from a large university in South Africa to analyse the role that neighbourhood and race effects play in determining academic performance. In particular, I am interested in ascertaining whether allocation to a ... Read more
A pre-R year is it worth it, and what would it cost? An applied policy analysis

Author: Girdwood, Elizabeth Date: 2009 Science is unequivocal in its support for the importance of early childhood development. Calls for increased investment in young children cite neuroscience, developmental psychology and health. It is hazardous, however, to make a direct leap ... Read more