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September 11, 2023 in 2023, Education - Reports & Policy, News and Opinion, Policy Briefs, Research Outputs, Working Papers

How Well Have Full-Service Schools Been Prepared for Disability-Inclusion?

Ultimately, learners with disabilities should be accommodated at schools in their neighbourhood, where they should have access to all programmes of support (Screening, Identification, Assessment…
September 11, 2023 By: PDF
August 29, 2023 in 2023, News and Opinion, Reports, Research Outputs, Uncategorized

What we know about Covid-19 and the South African labour market

Tim Köhler provides an overview of the South African labour market during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
August 29, 2023 By: Timothy Köhler PDF

Research on Socioeconomic Policy (RESEP) is a group of scholars and students interested in issues of poverty, income distribution, social mobility, economic development and social policy. Based at the Department of Economics at the University of Stellenbosch. The team is lead by Servaas van der Berg, whose position as the Chair in the Economics of Social Policy since 2008, has lead to the further consolidation of research within these areas.

Recent Papers

The latest working papers, publications, reports and policy briefs by RESEP researchers.
September 11, 2023 in 2023, Education - Reports & Policy, News and Opinion, Policy Briefs, Research Outputs, Working Papers

How Well Have Full-Service Schools Been Prepared for Disability-Inclusion?

Ultimately, learners with disabilities should be accommodated at schools in their neighbourhood, where they should have access to all programmes of support (Screening, Identification, Assessment…
September 11, 2023 By: PDF
August 29, 2023 in 2023, News and Opinion, Reports, Research Outputs, Uncategorized

What we know about Covid-19 and the South African labour market

Tim Köhler provides an overview of the South African labour market during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
August 29, 2023 By: Timothy Köhler PDF
July 26, 2023 in 2023, Ongoing Projects

The Teacher Demographic Dividend (TDD) project

The Teacher Demographic Dividend (TDD) project looks at the challenge of replacing older teachers, but it also offers the opportunity to renew the teaching workforce.…
July 26, 2023 By: RESEP Team PDF
July 11, 2023 in 2023, Authors, Carol Nuga Deliwe, Chapters in Book, Education, Education - Publications, Education 2023, Publications, Servaas van der Berg

The role of assessment in Foundation Phase improvement: The Annual National Assessments and beyond

Measuring learning outcomes (what learners know and can do) has been a contested terrain for many education systems and researchers, despite universal acknowledgement that assessment…
July 11, 2023 By: Carol Nuga Deliwe and Servaas van der Berg PDF

Ongoing Projects

The Teacher Demographic Dividend (TDD) project

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The Teacher Demographic Dividend (TDD) project looks at the challenge of replacing older teachers, but it also offers the opportunity to renew the teaching workforce.…
July 26, 2023 By: RESEP Team PDF

Roots and wings: Improved quality in subsidised housing

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This project is a collaboration between Stellenbosch University, Theewaterskloof municipality and Western Cape Department of Human Settlements. The aim is to use upward and downward…
August 11, 2021 By: Marisa von Fintel, Natalie van Reenen (US), Brenda Mothibe (Theewaterskloof), Lenine Felix (Rooidakke), Francis Felix (Rooidakke) PDF

Reading and socio-emotional skills in challenging school contexts: Evidence from South African primary schools

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This project is linked to the Early Learning Programme (ELP) and uses data from the Readership and Literacy project but is also supplemented by others…
October 22, 2020 By: Gabrielle Wills, Heleen Hofmeyr, Rebecca Selkirk, Servaas van der Berg, E. Pretorius (UNISA), C. Ardington (UCT), N. Mohohlwane (DBE), Nwabisa Makaluza (RESEP/ Funda Wanda), N. Mtsatse (Funda Wanda) PDF

Team

RESEP (Research on Socio-Economic Policy)
RESEP is a group of researchers in the Department of Economics at the University of Stellenbosch.

Funding

RESEP has received funding for its research from various organisations and governments. In recent years, funding for research has been provided by, amongst others, The Allan Gray Orbis Foundation Endowment; The UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC); UNICEF offices in South Africa, Namibia and Eswatini; Zenex Foundation, Tshikululu Social Investments, PSPPD (Presidency/European Union) and The National Research Foundation (NRF).