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Working Papers

2020

1. Analysing matric data to identify 'promising' schools in mathematics performance
   Working Papers, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics
2. The gendered effects of the ongoing lockdown and school closures in South Africa: Evidence from NIDS-CRAM Waves 1 and 2
   Working Papers, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics View citations (4)

2019

3. The big-fish-little-pond effect on grade 9 learners in South Africa
   Working Papers, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics

2017

4. Gender, Self-concept and Mathematics and Science Performance of South African Grade 9 Students
   Working Papers, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics View citations (1)

2016

5. Interrogating a Paradox of Performance in the WCED: A Provincial and Regional Comparison of Student Learning
   Working Papers, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics

2015

6. A Retrospective Look at How Well a Macro-Micro Model Can Analyze the Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on a Developing Country
   Post-Print, HAL
7. Learn to teach, teach to learn: A within-pupil across-subject approach to estimating the impact of teacher subject knowledge on South African grade 6 performance
   Working Papers, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics View citations (4)
8. The Impact of the International Economic Crisis on Child Poverty in South Africa
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (1)
   Also in Working Papers, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics (2010) View citations (3)
   Working Papers, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics (2010) View citations (5)

2013

9. A question of efficiency: decomposing South African reading test scores using PIRLS 2006
   Working Papers, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics View citations (3)
10. Compulsory tutorial programmes and performance in undergraduate microeconomics: A regression discontinuity design
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
    Also in Working Papers, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics (2013)

2011

11. Constraints to school effectiveness: what prevents poor schools from delivering results?
    Working Papers, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics View citations (6)
12. Low quality education as a poverty trap
    Working Papers, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics View citations (19)

2010

13. Signalling performance: Continuous assessment and matriculation examination marks in South African schools
    Working Papers, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics View citations (3)
14. Silent victims: Child poverty in the wake of the global economic crisis
    Post-Print, HAL
15. The costs of illiteracy in South Africa
    Working Papers, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics View citations (1)

2008

16. Post-Apartheid Trends in Gender Discrimination in South Africa: Analysis through Decomposition Techniques
    Working Papers, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics View citations (13)