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337: Happy in the Informal Economy? A Case Study of Well-Being Among Day Labourers in South Africa

Christie Schoeman, Ilse Botha, Phillip F. Blaauw and Rinie Schenck

336: Pearls worth Rds4000 or less: Reinterpreting eighteenth century sumptuary laws at the Cape

Stan Du Plessis

335: Time-Varying Parameter in the Almost Ideal Demand System and the Rotterdam Model: Will the Best Specification Please Stand Up?

Isaac Kalonda-Kanyama and William Barnett

334: Achieving Higher Growth and Employment: Policy options for South Africa

Christopher Loewald, David Faulkner and Konstantin Makrelov

333: The Productivity Impact of Infrastructure in Turkey, 1987 – 2006

Isaac Kalonda-Kanyama, Johannes W. Fedderke and T. E. Kaya

332: Encouraging Tutorial Attendance and its Impact on Grades: A Randomised Controlled Trial

Callie Shenker and Katherine Eyal

331: Using a choice experiment to manage the excess demand challenges facing the Sundays River Estuary recreational fishery in South Africa

Deborah E. Lee, Mario du Preez and Stephen G. Hosking

330: Competition, Industrial structure and Economic Growth

Abieyuwa Ohonba and Johannes W. Fedderke

329: Young Democracies and Government Size: Evidence from South America

Manoel Bittencourt

328: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Efficiency and Productivity of the Banking System in South Africa

Andrew Maredza and Sylvanus Ikhide

327: The Impact of Economic Freedom on Economic Growth in the SADC: An Individual Component Analysis

Pierre Le Roux and Vsevolod I. Gorlach

326: Interaction of Formal and Informal Financial Markets in Quasi-Emerging Market Economies

Harold P. E. Ngawala and Nicola Viegi

325: Heights and development in a Cash-Crop Colony: Living standards in Ghana, 1870-1980

Alexander Moradi, Gareth Austin and Jörg Baten

324: Business cycle co-movements between South Africa and the BRIC countries

Alexander Moradi and Mustafa Y. Çakir

323: Retirement Date Effects on Saving Behavior: The Case of Non-Separable Preferences

Mustafa Y. Çakir

322: Risk Preferences and Environmental Uncertainty: Implications for Crop Diversification Decisions in Ethiopia

Mare Sarr and Mintewab Bezabih

321: Evaluating the Prospects of Benefit Sharing Schemes in Protecting Mountain Gorillas in Central Africa

Birgit Bednar-Friedl, Edwin Muchapondwa, Precious Zikhali and Samson Mukanjari

320: Does Famine Matter For Aggregate Adolescent Human Capital Acquisition In Sub-Saharan Africa?

Gregory N. Price and Julius A. Agbor

319: A Greek wedding in SADC? – Testing for structural symmetry

Francis M. Kemegue, Marthinus C. Breitenbach and Mulatu F. Zerihun

318: Institutional dynamics and capital accumulation: Evidence from Namibia and Tanzania

Bernhard P. Zaaruka

317: Social capital as an engine of growth: Multisectoral modelling and implications

Alain P. Bala, Raouf Boucekkine and Youyou B. Bofota

316: Monetary policy and inflation in South Africa: A VECM augmented with foreign variables

Annari de Waal and Reneé van Eyden

315: Consumer demand for alcoholic beverages and tobacco in Lesotho: A double-hurdle approach

Reneé van Eyden

314: Can International Interventions Secure the Peace?

Anke Hoeffler

313: Don’t Make War, Make Elections. Franchise Extension and Violence in XIXth-Century Colombia

Juan Vargas and Leopoldo Fergusson

312: The Legacy of Historical Conflict Evidence from Africa

Marta Reynal-Querol and Timothy Besley

311: How persistent is armed conflict?

David D. Laitin and James D. Fearon

310: Violent Development: Toward an economic history of African warfare and military organisation

Richard J. Reid

309: Dynamic deterrence analysis of factors affecting the management of Sudan Fishery

Sana Abusin

308: Quality of Institutions: Does Intelligence Matter?

Isaac Kalonda-Kanyama and Oasis Kodila-Tedika

307: Monetary policy and commodity terms of trade shocks in emerging market economies

Albert Touna-Mama, Fulbert Tchana Tchana and Seedwell Hove

306: Financial Reforms and Consumption Behaviour in Malawi

Chance Mwabutwa, Manoel Bittencourt and Nicola Viegi

305: Returns Correlation Structure and Volatility Spillovers Among the Major African Stock Markets

Tinashe H. D. Kambadza and Zivanemoyo Chinzara

304: The Cost-effectiveness of Intervening in Low and High HIV Prevalence Areas in South Africa

Josue Mbonigaba

303: Assessing the Economic Value of El Niñobased seasonal climate forecasts for smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe

Ephias M. Makaudze

302: Trends on the hours worked of the employed, 1997 – 2011

Adél Bosch and Derek Yu

301: The Abolition of User Fees and the Demand for Health Care: Re-evaluating the Impact

Steven F. Koch

300: The Objectivity of National Research Foundation Peer Review Based Ratings in South Africa

Johannes W. Fedderke

299: Adaptation to climate change by smallholder farmers in Tanzania

Coretha Komba and Edwin Muchapondwa

298: Heterogeneity and Voting: A Framed Public Good Experiment

Kerri Brick and Martine Visser

297: Trends and Structural Changes in South African Macroeconomic Volatility

Kevin Kotze and Stan Du Plessis

296: A decision-theoretic model of asset-price underreaction and overreaction to dividend news

Alexander Ludwig and Alexander Zimper

295: The Role of Banks in Monetary Policy Transmission in South Africa

Asrat Tsegaye and Syden Mishi

294: Are arts events a good way of augmenting the economic impact of sports? The case of the 2010 Soccer World Cup and the National Arts Festival in South Africa

Jen D. Snowball

293: Ethnic reunion and cultural affinity

Johan Fourie and Maria Santana-Gallego

292: Is Africa Integrating? Evidence from Product Markets

Lawrence Edwards and Neil Rankin

291: The emergence of “fifty-fifty” probability judgements in a conditional Savage world

Alexander Zimper

290: The Cost of Rigidity: The Case of the South African Labor Market

Johannes W. Fedderke

289: The unintended consequences of education policies on South African participation and unemployment

Dieter von Fintel, Rulof P. Burger and Servaas van der Berg

288: Poverty and headship in post-apartheid South Africa, 1997-2008

Michael Rogan