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06/2021: A machine learning approach to domain specific dictionary generation. An economic time series framework

Hanjo Odendaal

05/2021: Disability support and accessibility in ordinary schools in South Africa

Nicola Deghaye

04/2021: Negative Item Response Bias in Education-Based Surveys - a Factor Modelling Approach

Alexander O’Riordan

03/2021: Better enforcement is essential, but may be inadequate: Findings of a survey on the factors affecting payment of speeding fines in Cape Town, South Africa

Jason Bantjes, Sophia Du Plessis, Ada Jansen and Krige Siebrits

02/2021: Efficiency of tax revenue administration in Africa

Onesmo Kaiya Mackenzie

01/2021: Learner flow through patterns in the Western Cape using CEMIS datasets from 2007 to 2019: A longitudinal cohort analysis

Chris Van Wyk

25/2020: Hunger in South Africa during 2020: Results from Wave 2 of NIDS-CRAM

Grace Bridgman, Servaas van der Berg and Leila Patel

24/2020: The impact of the Coronavirus and lockdown on children's welfare in South Africa: Evidence from NIDS-CRAM Wave 1

Servaas van der Berg, Linda Zuze and Grace Bridgman

23/2020: How is the COVID-19 pandemic affecting educational quality in South Africa? Evidence to date and future risks

Martin Gustafsson and Carol Nuga Deliwe

22/2020: Household resource flows and food poverty during South Africa’s lockdown: Short-term policy implications for three channels of social protection

Gabrielle Wills, Servaas van der Berg, Leila Patel and Bokang Mpeta

21/2020: The gendered effects of the ongoing lockdown and school closures in South Africa: Evidence from NIDS-CRAM Waves 1 and 2

Daniela Casale and Debra Shepherd

20/2020: Schools in the time of COVID-19: Possible implications for enrolment, repetition and dropout

Servaas van der Berg, Chris Van Wyk and Rebecca Selkirk

19/2020: Chronic child poverty and health outcomes in South Africa using a multidimensional poverty measure

Marisa von Fintel and Ronelle Burger

18/2020: Safer Spaces: The impact of a reduction in road fatalities on the life expectancy of South Africans

Liliana de Abreu and Anke Hoeffler

17/2020: South Africa’s Pro-Girl Gap in PIRLS and TIMSS: How Much Can Be Explained?

Heleen Hofmeyr

16/2020: Analysing matric data to identify 'promising' schools in mathematics performance

Debra Lynne Shepherd and Servaas van der Berg

15/2020: Covid-19, economic growth and South African fiscal policy

Philippe Burger and Estian Calitz

14/2020: The settlers of South Africa and the expanding frontier

Johan Fourie

13/2020: Better measures of progress: Developing reliable estimates of educational access and quality in Francophone sub-Saharan Africa

Adaiah Lilenstein

12/2020: The causes and consequences of the 1918 influenza in South Africa

Daniel de Kadt, Johan Fourie, Jan Greyling, Elie Murard and Johannes Norling

11/2020: Long and short-distance internal migration motivations in post-apartheid Namibia: a gravity model approach

Eldridge Moses

10/2020: Causes of haze and its health effects in Singapore: a replication study

Jan Kiviet

09/2020: Instrument-free inference under confined regressor endogeneity; derivations and applications

Jan Kiviet

08/2020: Are South Africa’s teachers among the best paid in the world? Using household assets as a proxy for monetary pay

Martin Gustafsson and Tsekere Maponya

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