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Accents, Race and Discrimination: Evidence from a Trust Game

Author: Yagman, Ece; Keswell, Malcolm Date: 06 Jun 2017 We investigate discrimination according to accent and race on trust behaviour. Proposers were randomly paired with responders of the same/different race, and asked to play the trust game after looking at a photograph and hearing a 10 second ... Read more
Altruism and the role of affect: an investigation into the causal effects of positive emotions and its rationality on altruism

Author: Kinyanjui, George Kariuki Date: 2021 There is now well established evidence that shows that growing up in poor neighbourhoods can keep people locked in poverty. One response to neighbourhood distress – i.e., situations in which neighbourhoods serves as poverty traps – is to move ... Read more
Educational inheritance and the distribution of occupations: Evidence from South Africa

Author: Keswell, Malcolm; Girdwood, Sarah; Leibbrandt, Murray Date: 28 May 2015 We analyse the role of educational opportunity in shaping inequality in the distribution of occupations in the long-run. We start by modelling the probability that a child occupies the same or a different rung on the occupational ladder as ... Read more
Educational inheritance and the distribution of occupations: Evidence from South Africa

Author: Keswell, Malcolm; Girdwood, Sarah; Leibbrandt, Murray Date: 28 May 2015 We analyze the role of educational opportunity in shaping inequality in the distribution of occupations in the long run. We use the timing of political events in the history of the struggle to end Apartheid to devise an identification strategy ... Read more
Employment, group membership and risk-pooling behaviour: field evidence from South Africa

Author: Keswell, Malcolm Date: 2003 This paper analyses the joint determination of social network membership and employment status in stochastic environments, using data from a new survey undertaken in KwaZulu Natal province as well as ethnographic evidence. The results show ... Read more c b n d
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
Gender and Resource Allocation Decisions in Farm Households: Evidence from a South African Land Reform Programme

Author: Fitzhenry, Nicholas Date: 2019 I study whether South African farm households participating in a land reform program make Pareto efficient intrahousehold consumption decisions. Using evaluation survey data of beneficiary households participating in South Africa’s Land ... 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
How important is education for getting ahead in South Africa?

Author: Keswell, Malcolm ; Poswell, Laura Date: 2002 The impact of education on the process of development relies crucially on what can be assumed about the way it is rewarded. Standard human capital theory assumes diminishing marginal returns to education. The purpose of this paper is to examine ... Read more c b n d
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
Learning to trust : experimental evidence of social learning in a real-world social network of player A's in a trust game.

Author: Roots, Lindsey Date: 2013 Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references. Read more
Mental health and social decision making: How depression alters the way we trust

Author: Spazzoli, Rowan Date: 2019 Depression is one of the most prevalent causes of disease burden in the world, with a particularly high prevalence in South Africa. Significant evidence exists for how depression affects employment, income and education, but there is little ... 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
Shocks, Assets and Credit

Author: Keswell, Malcolm; Burns, Justine Date: 06 Jun 2017 Well functioning credit and insurance markets, in many respects, obviates the need for public policy that is oriented at providing support to households when they face economic hardship. But when the market for cheap informal credit is ... Read more
Social assistance, gender and the aged in South Africa

Author: Burns, Justine ; Keswell, Malcolm ; Leibbrandt, Murray Date: 2005 This paper reviews the history of the noncontributory social pension in South Africa, as well as recent work on the distributional and poverty-alleviating effects of this program. The pension has a strong gender dimension, reaching three times ... Read more
The impact of health on poverty: Evidence from the South African integrated family survey

Author: Godlonton, Susan; Keswell, Malcolm Date: 28 May 2015 This paper examines the impact of health status on poverty status, accounting for the endogeneity of health status. Using exogenous measures of health status from the South African Integrated Health Survey, we instrument for health status ... Read more
The relationship between multidimensional psychological well-being and poverty

Author: Oaker, Brandon Date: 2019 Evidence from various academic fields indicates that mental health and income are correlated. Additionally, evidence exists that an increase in income improves psychological well-being and evidence that poor psychological well-being negatively ... Read more