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05/2013: Poverty and inequality estimates of National Income Dynamics Study revisited

Derek Yu

04/2013: Youth unemployment in South Africa since 2000 revisited

Derek Yu

03/2013: Some factors influencing the comparability and reliability of poverty estimates across household surveys

Derek Yu

02/2013: An overview of salient factors, relationships and values to support integrated energy-economic systems dynamic modelling

Martin de Wit, Matthew Kuperus Heun and Douglas Crookes

01/2013: The effects of rapidly expanding primary school access on effective learning: The case of Southern and Eastern Africa since 2000

Stephen Taylor and Nicholas Spaull

23/2012: The gap between school enrolments and population in South Africa: Analysis of the possible explanations

Martin Gustafsson

22/2012: Graduate unemployment in South Africa: A much exaggerated problem

Servaas van der Berg and Hendrik van Broekhuizen

21/2012: “Effective enrolment” - Creating a composite measure of educational access and educational quality to accurately describe education system performance in sub-Saharan Africa

Nicholas Spaull and Stephen Taylor

20/2012: New estimates of settler life span and other demographic trends in South Africa, 1652–1948

Jeanne Cilliers and Johan Fourie

19/2012: The Role of the South African Government in Developing the Biotechnology Industry – from Biotechnology Regional Innovation Centres to the Technology Innovation Agency

Ramazan Uctu and Hassan Essop

18/2012: Youths in the South African labour market since the transition: A study of changes between 1995 and 2011

Derek Yu

17/2012: Real Interest Rate Persistence in South Africa: Evidence and Implications

Sonali Das, Rangan Gupta, Patrick T. Kanda, Monique Reid, Christian K. Tipoy and Mulatu Zerihun

16/2012: Assets matter: New and old views of monetary policy

Stan Du Plessis

15/2012: Trends on the hours worked of the employed, 1997 - 2011

Derek Yu and Adel Bosch

14/2012: Is the relationship between monetary policy and house prices asymmetric in South Africa? Evidence from a Markov-Switching Vector Autoregressive mode

Beatrice D. Simo - Kengne, Mehmet Balcilar, Rangan Gupta, Monique Reid and Goodness C. Aye

13/2012: Poverty & Privilege: Primary School Inequality in South Africa

Nicholas Spaull

12/2012: More countries, similar results. A nonlinear programming approach to normalising test scores needed for growth regressions

Martin Gustafsson

11/2012: The unintended consequences of education policies on South African participation and unemployment

Rulof Burger, Servaas van der Berg and Dieter von Fintel

10/2012: Fiscal centralisation in a federal state: the South African case

Estian Calitz and Hassan Essop

09/2012: Cigarettes taxes and smuggling in South Africa: Causes and Consequences

Craig Lemboe and Philip Black

08/2012: Inflation Expectations of the Inattentive General Public

Monique Reid

07/2012: Improving the targeting of zero-rated basic foodstuffs under value added tax (VAT) in South Africa - An exploratory analysis

Ada Jansen, Elizabeth Stoltz and Derek Yu

06/2012: The Future of South African Economic History

Johan Fourie and Stefan Schirmer

05/2012: Macroeconomic Surprises and Stock Returns in South Africa

Rangan Gupta and Monique Reid

04/2012: GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: The national accounts of a slave-based society

Johan Fourie and Jan Luiten van Zanden

03/2012: The fertility transition in South Africa: A retrospective panel data analysis

Laura Rossouw, Rulof Burger and Ronelle Burger

02/2012: Father’s employment and sons’ stature: the long run effects of a positive regional employment shock in South Africa’s mining industry

Martine Mariotti

01/2012: Happy in the service of the Company: the purchasing power of VOC salaries at the Cape in the 18th century

Sophia du Plessis and Stan Du Plessis

25/2011: Low quality education as a poverty trap

Servaas van der Berg, Cobus Burger, Ronelle Burger, Mia de Vos, Gideon du Rand, Martin Gustafsson, Eldridge Moses, Debra Shepherd, Nicholas Spaull, Stephen Taylor, Hendrik van Broekhuizen and Dieter von Fintel

24/2011: Die relatiewe welvaart van die vroeë Kaapse setlaars

Johan Fourie

23/2011: In Good Company: About Agency and Economic Development in Global Perspective

Jan Luiten van Zanden

22/2011: A Model of NGO Regulation with an Application to Uganda

Ronelle Burger, Indraneel Dasgupta and Trudy Owens

21/2011: Slaves as capital investment in the Dutch Cape Colony, 1652-1795

Johan Fourie

20/2011: Hedging one’s happiness – Should a sports fan bet on the opponent?

Bart Stemmet

19/2011: Talking to the inattentive Public: How the media translates the Reserve Bank’s communications

Monique Reid and Stan Du Plessis

18/2011: Business Cycle and Bank Capital Regulation: Basel II Procyclicality

Guangling Liu and Nkhahle Seeiso

17/2011: Nationalising South African mines: Back to a prosperous future, or down a rabbit hole?

Stan Du Plessis

16/2011: Finding the Benefits: Estimating the Impact of the South African Child Support Grant

Marisa Coetzee

15/2011: Will the SARB always succeed in fighting inflation with contractionary policy?

Guangling Liu

14/2011: A survey and comparison of luxury item ownership in the eighteenth century Dutch Cape Colony

Johan Fourie and Jolandi Uys

13/2011: How well do South African schools convert grade 8 achievement into matric outcomes?

Stephen Taylor, Servaas van der Berg, Vijay Reddy and Dean Janse van Rensburg

12/2011: Numeric competence, confidence and school quality in the South African wage function: towards understanding pre-labour market discrimination

Gideon du Rand, Hendrik van Broekhuizen and Dieter von Fintel

11/2011: A Preliminary Analysis of SACMEQ III South Africa

Nicholas Spaull

10/2011: Uncovering indicators of effective school management in South Africa using the National School Effectiveness Study

Stephen Taylor

09/2011: The when and how of leaving school: The policy implications of new evidence on secondary schooling in South Africa

Martin Gustafsson

08/2011: Modelling cognitive skills, ability and school quality to explain labour market earnings differentials

Cobus Burger and Servaas van der Berg

07/2011: Quality of education and the labour market: A conceptual and literature overview

Eldridge Moses

06/2011: Quantitative and qualitative aspects of education in South Africa: An analysis using the National Income Dynamic Study

Mia de Vos

05/2011: Constraints to school effectiveness: what prevents poor schools from delivering results?

Debra Shepherd

04/2011: On the (non-)equivalence of capital adequacy and monetary policy: A response to Cechetti and Kohler

Stan Du Plessis and Gideon du Rand