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A small push goes a long way: An evaluation of the cumulative effects of a cash transfer on South African youth

Author: Jani, Tafadzwa Date: 2021 Persistently high poverty rates in developing countries have negatively affected social welfare outcomes, including infant mortality, food security, life expectancy, and educational attainment. In the late 2010s, depressed household incomes ... Read more
An evaluation of the determinants and implications of panel attrition in the National Income Dynamics Survey (2008 – 2010)

Author: Baigrie, Nic; Eyal, Katherine Date: 28 May 2015 Panel surveys offer a valuable tool for researchers to explore the dynamics underlying individual and household behaviours. The Achilles heel of panel data is attrition. This paper examines the determinants and implications of attrition in ... Read more
An evaluation of the determinants and implications of panel attrition in the National Income Dynamics Survey (2008-2010)

Author: Baigrie, Nic; Eyal, Katherine Date: 28 May 2015 In the absence of established longitudinal panel surveys in South Africa, national cross-sectional household survey data are frequently used to analyse change. When these data are stacked side by side, however, inconsistencies both in time ... Read more
Choice under Uncertainty

Author: Eyal, Katherine Date: 2013 This lecture note series in Microeconomics looks at risk, risk seeking, risk neutrality and risk aversion. uncertainty, and choice. Read more c b
Costs

Author: Eyal, Katherine Date: 2013 These lecturer notes address costs in the short term and long term, the short-term and long-term cost curves, and the relationship between these curves. This resource is aimed at first-year economics students, and can be used by lecturers ... Read more c b
Factor Markets: Labour

Author: Eyal, Katherine Date: 2013 These lecture notes look into the labour market as a factor of production, looking at the various factors that influence labour as an input in production. This resource is aimed at first-year economics students, and can be used by lecturers ... Read more c b
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
The impact of emotional ‘affect’ on municipal budget transparency in South Africa: a randomised control trial using PAIA requests

Author: Van der Mey, Stephanie ; Eyal, Katherine Date: 2014 This paper aims to assess the effectiveness and transparency outcomes of an access to information mechanism in South Africa enshrined in the Protection of Access to in Information (PAIA) Act of 2000. A randomized control trial is conducted ... Read more c b
Mathematics for Economists

Author: Eyal, Katherine Date: 21 Aug 2014 This resources consists of comprehensive notes, tutorials and solutions for Honours level economics. Material covered includes linear algebra, comparative statics, optimisation, integration and differential equations and systems of difference ... Read more c b
Mathematics in 2nd Year Microeconomics

Author: Eyal, Katherine Date: 2013 This series of lecture notes explains and illustrates mathematical concepts used in 2nd year Microeconomics at the University of Cape Town. These concepts include matrices, Markov chains, non-Singularity, Jacobian determination, differentials ... Read more c b
Quantitative methods for economics

Author: Eyal, Katherine Date: 2011 Mathematical economics involves the application of mathematics to the theoretical aspects of economic analysis, while econometrics deals with the study of empirical observations using statistical methods of estimation and hypothesis testing. ... Read more c b n a
School Enrolment and the Child Support Grant: Evidence from South Africa

Author: Eyal, Katherine; Woolard, Ingrid Date: 28 May 2015 The extension of the Child Support Grant in South Africa to all children aged 17 or under gives the opportunity to evaluate this type of social transfer and its effect on school enrolment. Using exogenous variation in the fraction of life ... Read more
The Intergenerational Transmission Effect of Depression: Causality, Resilience & Decomposition

Author: Mthembu, Simeme Date: 2022 Since the 1990s, the burden of disease associated with poor mental health has continued to rise in South Africa. One third of South Africans will suffer from poor mental health in their lifetime if either parent also suffers from poor mental ... Read more
The Theory of Consumer Behaviour: cognitive limitations and consumer behaviour

Author: Eyal, Katherine Date: 2013 These lecture notes look at consumer behaviour and cognitive limitations, specifically targeting rational and irrational behaviour, bounded rationality, sunk costs, and affective forecasting errors. Read more c b
Theory of the firm and market structure: Production

Author: Eyal, Katherine Date: 2013 These lecture notes look at production in the long and short run, as well as Returns to Scale. This resource is aimed at first-year economics students, and can be used by lecturers looking to improve their lecture materials or for students ... Read more c b
Throwing the book at the CSG

Author: Eyal, Katherine; Woolard, Ingrid Date: 28 May 2015 We estimate the effect of the child support grant on mothers' labour supply in South Africa. Identification is based on the use of specific samples, such as black mothers, aged 20 to 45, whose youngest child is aged within 2 years of the age ... Read more
Up or Down? Intergenerational Mental Health Transmission and Cash Transfers in South Africa

Author: Eyal, Katherine; Burns, Justine Date: 06 Jun 2017 We investigate the intergenerational transmission of depression in South Africa from parents to teens, and the positive role income shocks (in the form of cash transfers) can play to reduce this transmission effect. South Africa is characterised ... Read more