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10/2017: Black living standards in South Africa before democracy: New evidence from heights

Bokang Mpeta, Johan Fourie and Kris Inwood

09/2017: Migration and gender in South Africa: following bright lights and the fortunes of others?

Dieter von Fintel and Eldridge Moses

08/2017: The effect of neighbourhoods and school quality on education and labour market outcomes in South Africa

Asmus Zoch

07/2017: What a difference a good school makes! Persistence in academic performance and the impact of school quality

Marisa von Fintel and Servaas van der Berg

06/2017: The value of reference letters

Martin Abel, Rulof Burger and Patrizio Piraino

05/2017: Succeeding against the odds: A quantitative assessment of the effectiveness of IkamvaYouth

Lewis Sidney McLean and Servaas van der Berg

04/2017: Social mobility during South Africa’s industrial take-off

Jeanne Cilliers and Johan Fourie

03/2017: Building bridges or deepening divides: Resources and formal volunteering in post-apartheid South Africa

Dineo Seabe and Ronelle Burger

02/2017: Learner flow through patterns in the Western Cape using CEMIS datasets from 2007 to 2014: A longitudinal cohort analysis

Chris van Wyk, Anderson Gondwe and Pierre De Villiers

01/2017: The performance of low fee independent schools in South Africa - What can available data tell?

Servaas van der Berg, Chris van Wyk, Ronelle Burger, Janeli Kotzé, Marlies Piek and Kate Rich

19/2016: Disentangling the language effect in South African schools: Measuring the impact of ‘language of assessment’ in grade 3 literacy and numeracy

Nicholas Spaull

18/2016: Modelling South African Art Prices: An analysis of post-2000 price behaviour

Laurie Binge and Willem Boshoff

17/2016: The business cycle resilience of the Western Cape economy: a regional analysis of the 2009 recession and subsequent recovery

Pieter Laubscher

16/2016: Higher Education Access and Outcomes for the 2008 National Matric Cohort

Hendrik van Broekhuizen, Servaas van der Berg and Heleen Hofmeyr

15/2016: Credit market heterogeneity, balance sheet (in)dependence, financial shocks

Chris Garbers and Guangling Liu

14/2016: Interrogating a Paradox of Performance in the WCED: A Provincial and Regional Comparison of Student Learning

Gabrielle Wills, Debra Shepherd and Janeli Kotze

13/2016: Examining the performance of the South African economics departments, 2005-2014

Derek Yu, Atoko Kasongo and Mariana Moses

12/2016: South Africa's real business cycles: The cycle is the trend

Hilary Patroba and Leroi Raputsoane

11/2016: The long walk to economic freedom after apartheid, and the road ahead

Johan Fourie

10/2016: Gauging financial conditions in South Africa

Willem van der Wath

09/2016: Wage flexibility in a high unemployment regime: spatial heterogeneity and the size of local labour markets

Dieter von Fintel

08/2016: Graduate unemployment and Higher Education Institutions in South Africa

Hendrik van Broekhuizen

07/2016: Institutional wage-setting, labour demand and labour supply: causal estimates from a South African pseudo-panel

Dieter von Fintel

06/2016: Underemployment in South Africa

Rochelle Beukes, Tina Fransman, Simba Murozvi and Derek Yu

05/2016: Treating schools to a new administration: Evidence from South Africa of the impact of better practices in the system-level administration of schools

Martin Gustafsson and Stephen Taylor

04/2016: South Africa: Trading international investment for policy space

Karen Bosman

03/2016: Teacher supply and the quality of schooling in South Africa. Patterns over space and time

Martin Gustafsson

02/2016: The historically high cost of tertiary education in South Africa

Estian Calitz and Johan Fourie

01/2016: Principal leadership changes in South Africa: Investigating their consequences for school performance

Gabrielle Wills

21/2015: Enhancing the financial sector linkages in the Bureau for Economic Research’s core macroeconometric model

Christelle Grobler and Ben Smit

20/2015: Asset index, child nutritional status and pro-poor growth analysis in Malawi

Anderson Gondwe

19/2015: An overview of Education data in South Africa: an inventory approach

Chris van Wyk

18/2015: What the Annual National Assessments can tell us about learning deficits over the education system and the school career year

Servaas van der Berg

17/2015: The long walk: Considering the enduring spatial and racial dimensions of deprivation two decades after the fall of apartheid

Ronelle Burger, Servaas van der Berg, Sarel van der Walt and Derek Yu

16/2015: The Capability Threshold: Re-examining the definition of the middle class in an unequal developing country

Ronelle Burger, Camren McAravey and Servaas van der Berg

15/2015: The readiness of the South African education system for a pre-Grade R year

Janeli Kotzé

14/2015: Estimating and explaining changes in potential growth in South Africa

Johannes Kemp and Ben Smit

13/2015: The impact of study guides on “matric” performance: Evidence from a randomised experiment

Stephen Taylor and Patricia Watson

12/2015: A profile of the labour market for school principals in South Africa: Evidence to inform policy

Gabrielle Wills

11/2015: The public sector balance sheet and fiscal consolidation in South Africa

Philippe Burger, Franz Siebrits and Estian Calitz

10/2015: When did globalization begin in South Africa?

Willem Boshoff and Johan Fourie

09/2015: Examining oral reading fluency among grade 5 rural English Second Language (ESL) learners in South Africa: An analysis of NEEDU 2013

Kim Draper and Nicholas Spaull

08/2015: Identifying Periods of US Housing Market Explosivity

Mehmet Balcilar, Nico Katzke and Rangan Gupta

07/2015: Teacher Supply in South Africa: A Focus on Initial Teacher Education Graduate Production

Hendrik van Broekhuizen

06/2015: Do Long Memory and Asymmetries Matter When Assessing Downside Return Risk?

Nico Katzke and Chris Garbers

05/2015: The dynamics of child poverty in South Africa between 2008 and 2012: An analysis using the National Income Dynamics Study

Marisa von Fintel and Asmus Zoch

04/2015: “Poor South Africa! Will no nice English people ever come out here?”—The South African Constabulary of the Second South African War

Johan Fourie, Albert Grundlingh and Martine Mariotti

03/2015: Do Precious Metal Prices Help in Forecasting South African Inflation?

Mehmet Balcilar, Nico Katzke and Rangan Gupta

02/2015: Mark-ups and competition: a comparison of the profitability of listed South African industrial companies

Stan Du Plessis, Nico Katzke, Evan Gilbert and Chris Hart

01/2015: 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

Debra Shepherd