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Eldridge Moses

Researcher

Eldridge Moses is a lecturer at Stellenbosch University’s Department of Economics. He completed his undergraduate degree in Economics at the University of the Western Cape in 2006 and his Master’s degree in Economics in March 2010. Eldridge is also a previous undergraduate winner of the Nedbank and Old Mutual Budget Speech Competition.

Eldridge’s research interests include economics of education, economics of crime, economics of migration and the spatial dimensions of poverty and inequality in South Africa. He has worked with Professor Servaas van der Berg on a number of social policy-related research projects since 2007. He also conducted some of the preliminary research on the feasibility of the Cape Town Carnival. His most recent contribution to RESEP has been working with Professor van der Berg on producing policy briefs on South African and Namibian education for the SACMEQ Ministers’ meeting in October 2011.

February 2, 2023 in Chris van Wyk, Education - Reports & Policy, Education 2022, Eldridge Moses, Focus Areas, Heleen Hofmeyr, Herman Meyer, Joel Gondwe, News and Opinion, Rebecca Selkirk, Servaas van der Berg, Uncategorized

Educational issues and the impact of COVID-19: what education data reveal

COVID-19 caused disruptions to schooling on an unprecedented scale. Emerging evidence indicate sthat these disruptions impacted schooling in South Africa in many ways, from shortened…
February 2, 2023 By: Servaas van der Berg, Chris van Wyk, Rebecca Selkirk, Herman Meyer, Heleen Hofmeyr, Eldridge Moses and Joel Gondwe PDF
November 23, 2021 in 2021, Authors, Education, Education - Working Papers, Education 2021, Eldridge Moses, Focus Areas, Research Outputs, Working Papers

Enrolment in early childhood care and education programmes in South Africa: challenges and opportunities

The Ilifa-Resep ECD Working Paper Series is a collaboration between Ilifa Labantwana and Research on Socio-Economic Policy (RESEP) at Stellenbosch University. The working paper series…
November 23, 2021 By: Eldridge Moses PDF
July 16, 2018 in 2017, Dieter von Fintel, Eldridge Moses, Labour, Labour - Working Papers, Labour 2017, Research Outputs, Working Papers

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

Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP09/2017 Publication date: September 2017 Abstract: Internal migration in South Africa has a strong gender dimension. Historically, the apartheid-era migrant…
October 17, 2017 in Cobus Burger, Development, Development - Working Papers, Earlier Working Papers, Eldridge Moses, Servaas van der Berg, Working Papers

The fiscal incidence of provision of free basic water

Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP11/2009 Abstract: A policy of free basic services (water, sanitation and electricity) was introduced by the government in 2000 to…
October 17, 2017 By: Cobus Burger, Eldridge Moses, Servaas van der Berg, Ada Jansen, Hassan Essop PDF
October 17, 2017 in Development, Development - Working Papers, Earlier Working Papers, Eldridge Moses, Working Papers

Main Findings on Free Basic Services from National Treasury Fiscal Incidence Report

Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP14/2009 Abstract: This study analyses the extent to which the poor benefit from Free Basic Services (FBS), which include free…
October 17, 2017 By: Eldridge Moses, Hassan Essop PDF
October 16, 2017 in 2011, Education, Education - Working Papers, Eldridge Moses, Labour, Working Papers

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

Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP07/2011 Abstract: In South Africa earnings inequality between races still persists despite the convergence of educational attainment between races. There…
October 16, 2017 By: Eldridge Moses PDF
April 16, 2017 in Dieter von Fintel, Eldridge Moses, Journal Articles, Labour, Labour - Publications, Labour 2017, Publications, Research Outputs

Migration and gender in South Africa: following bright lights and the fortunes of others

  Abstract Internal migration in South Africa has a strong gender dimension. Historically, the apartheid‐era migrant labour system meant that predominantly black African men moved…