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Working Papers

2014

1. Randomised trials for policy: a review of the external validity of treatment effects
   SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town View citations (4)

2013

2. The transmission of longevity across generations: The case of the settler Cape Colony
   SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town
   Also in Working Papers, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics (2013) View citations (9)

2012

3. Econometric methods and Reichenbach's principle
   SALDRU Working Papers, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town

Journal Articles

2023

1. Is economics credible? A critical appraisal of three examples from microeconomics
   Journal of Economic Methodology, 2023, 30, (2), 157-175 View citations (1)

2021

2. Evidence for a YETI? A Cautionary Tale from South Africa's Youth Employment Tax Incentive
   Development and Change, 2021, 52, (6), 1301-1342
3. The dangers of performative scientism as the alternative to anti-scientific policymaking: A critical, preliminary assessment of South Africa’s Covid-19 response and its consequences
   World Development, 2021, 140, (C) View citations (1)

2020

4. The implications of a fundamental contradiction in advocating randomized trials for policy
   World Development, 2020, 127, (C)

2017

5. Academics as rent seekers: distorted incentives in higher education, with reference to the South African case
   International Journal of Educational Development, 2017, 52, (C), 58-67 View citations (8)

2015

6. Causal Interaction and External Validity: Obstacles to the Policy Relevance of Randomized Evaluations
   The World Bank Economic Review, 2015, 29, (suppl_1), S217-S225 View citations (23)

2013

7. Can the producers of policy analysis be trusted?
   Development Southern Africa, 2013, 30, (4-5), 697-700

2010

8. Another problem in the estimation of intergenerational income mobility
   Economics Letters, 2010, 108, (3), 291-295 View citations (6)