A new report looks into the effects of the COVID-19 on global indicators of early-grade learning proficiency
RESEP researchers produce Second-chance Matriculation technical report for Youth Capital
About RESEP
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.
Schools in the time of COVID-19: impacts of the pandemic on curriculum
Separating Employment Effects into Job Destruction and Job Creation
Mother-tongue Instruction or Straight-for-English? The Primary Education Policy Dilemma
Perseverance, Passion, and Poverty: Examining the association between grit and reading achievement in high-poverty schools
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP06/2020Ongoing Projects

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


Ongoing Projects
What SA_SAMS/Data Driven Districts data reveal about South African School Education
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).





