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07/2020: How does South Africa’s Covid-19 response compare globally? A preliminary analysis using the new OxCGRT dataset

Martin Gustafsson

06/2020: Perseverance, Passion, and Poverty: Examining the association between grit and reading achievement in high-poverty schools

Heleen Hofmeyr

05/2020: Technology and Welfare - Investigating the relationship between the ownership of technology-based assets and subjective measures of well-being

Alexander O'Riordan

04/2020: A Forward Guidance Indicator For The South African Reserve Bank: Implementing A Text Analysis Algorithm

Ruan Erasmus and Hylton Hollander

03/2020: Correspondence between mathematics and mathematical literacy scores: an analysis from 2010 to 2018

Grace Bridgman

02/2020: A revised PIRLS 2011 to 2016 trend for South Africa and the importance of analysing the underlying microdata

Martin Gustafsson

01/2020: Socioeconomic Status and Class Size in South African Secondary Schools

Timothy Köhler

21/2019: The effectiveness of the counter-cyclical loan-to-value regulation: Generic versus sector-specific rules

Guangling Liu and Thabang Molise

20/2019: The period effect: the effect of menstruation on absenteeism of school girls in Limpopo

Chloé Van Biljon and Cobus Burger

19/2019: Performance Beyond Expectations: Academic Resilience in South Africa

Heleen Hofmeyr

18/2019: Improving payment of traffic fines with financial incentives: Discounts versus penalties

Sophia Du Plessis, Bjoern Hartig, Ada Jansen and Krige Siebrits

17/2019: The promise of SA-SAMS & DDD data for tracking progression, repetition and drop-out

Servaas van der Berg, Chris Van Wyk, Rebecca Selkirk, Kate Rich and Nicola Deghaye

16/2019: The case for statecraft in education: The NDP, a recent book on governance, and the New Public Management inheritance

Martin Gustafsson

15/2019: Sustainable fiscal policy and economic growth in South Africa

Philippe Burger and Estian Calitz

14/2019: A constrained hierarchical risk parity algorithm with cluster-based capital allocation

Johann Pfitzinger and Nico Katzke

13/2019: The cost of repetition in South Africa

Servaas van der Berg, Gabrielle Wills, Rebecca Selkirk, Charles Adams and Chris Van Wyk

12/2019: Machine Learning vs Traditional Forecasting Methods: An Application to South African GDP

Lisa-Cheree Martin

11/2019: A Review of the South African Reserve Bank’s Financial Stability Policies

Hylton Hollander and Dawie Van Lill

10/2019: FTSE/JSE Index Migration: Testing for the Index Effect in Stocks Entering and Exiting the Top 40

Nico Katzke and Charlotte Van Tiddens

09/2019: Who writes African economic history?

Johan Fourie

08/2019: The limits of laws: traffic law enforcement in South Africa

Sophia du Plessis, Ada Jansen and Krige Siebrits

07/2019: Serving God and Mammon: the ‘minerals-railway complex’ and its effects on colonial public finances in the British Cape Colony, 1810-1910

Abel Gwaindepi

06/2019: Are the South African fiscal authorities serious about tax base broadening?

Estian Calitz

05/2019: The big-fish-little-pond effect on grade 9 learners in South Africa

Chad Fourie and Debra Shepherd

04/2019: Economic Growth and Environmental Degradation: Investigating the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve for local and global pollutants in South Africa

Timothy Köhler and Martin de Wit

03/2019: Property rights, market access and crop cultivation in Southern Rhodesia: evidence from historical satellite data

Tawanda Chingozha and Dieter von Fintel

02/2019: Decolonizing with data: The cliometric turn in African economic history

Johan Fourie and Nonso Obikili

01/2019: “To destroy the settlement of estate”? the Glorious Revolution and estate acts of parliament, 1660–1702

Kara Dimitruk

21/2018: Measuring leadership and management and their linkages with literacy in rural and township primary schools in South Africa

Gabrielle Wills and Servaas van der Berg

20/2018: Demand for education in the five countries of the South African Customs Union – Projections and implications

Servaas van der Berg and Marizanne Knoesen

19/2018: Sectoral minimum wages in South Africa: disemployment by firm size and trade exposure

Marlies Piek and Dieter von Fintel

18/2018: Academic Resilience in Challenging Contexts: Evidence From Township and Rural Primary Schools in South Africa

Gabrielle Wills and Heleen Hofmeyr

17/2018: Media based sentiment indices as an alternative measure of consumer confidence

Nicolaas Johannes Odendaal and Monique Reid

16/2018: Long-run spatial inequality in South Africa: early settlement patterns and separate development

Dieter von Fintel

15/2018: How to improve teaching practice? Experimental comparison of centralized training and in-classroom coaching

Jacobus Cilliers, Brahm Fleisch, Cas Prinsloo and Stephen Taylor

14/2018: Cliometrics in South Africa

Johan Fourie

13/2018: Instructional leadership and academic performance: Eastern Cape educators’ perceptions and quantitative evidence

Dumisani Hompashe

12/2018: Using satellite data to track socio-economic outcomes: a case study of Namibia

Thomas Ferreira

11/2018: Bridging the intention-behavior gap? The effect of plan-making prompts on job search and employment

Martin Abel, Rulof Burger, Eliana Carranza and Patrizio Piraino

10/2018: Is Basel III counter-cyclical: The case of South Africa?

Guangling Liu and Thabang Molise

09/2018: Integrating Indicators of Education Quantity and Quality in Six Francophone African Countries

Adaiah Lilenstein

08/2018: Understanding the sharp primary level enrolment increases beginning in 2011

Martin Gustafsson

07/2018: Multidimensional poverty in South Africa in 2001-2016

Tina Fransman and Derek Yu

06/2018: Record linkage in the Cape of Good Hope Panel

Auke Rijpma, Jeanne Cilliers and Johan Fourie

05/2018: Does education enhance productivity in smallholder agriculture? Causal evidence from Malawi

Thomas Ferreira

04/2018: Bargaining to work: the effect of female autonomy on female labour supply

Chloé Van Biljon, Dieter von Fintel and Atika Pasha

03/2018: Military technology and sample selection bias

Johan Fourie, Martine Mariotti and Kris Inwood

02/2018: Which comes first: good governance or prosperity? A historical experiment from the South African Republic and the Orange Free State

Stan Du Plessis and Sophia du Plessis

01/2018: Home background and schooling outcomes in South Africa: Insights from the National Income Dynamics Study

Heleen Hofmeyr

17/2017: Rotten apples or just apples and pears? Understanding patterns consistent with cheating in international test data

Martin Gustafsson and Carol Nuga Deliwe