Brown Bag Lunches

RESEP’s preliminary research findings are presented and discussed in these highly interactive and collaborative weekly seminars. From time to time, external researchers who have overlapping interests to our own are invited to present their recent work.

Previous Brown Bag Lunches

August 11, 2021 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

A ‘Free’ Labour Force: The Labour Mobility of Emancipated Slaves at the Cape Colony, 1833-1891

STIAS, Stellenbosch 30 June 2020
August 11, 2021 By: Lisa Martin PDF
August 11, 2021 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Education and skills for the economy and links to labour markets in South Africa – Presentation made by RESEP to the National Planning Commission

STIAS, Stellenbosch 23 June 2020
August 11, 2021 By: Martin Gustafsson PDF
August 11, 2021 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Highlights from Facing Forward: Schooling for Learning in Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 9 June 2020
August 11, 2021 By: Elizabeth Ninan & Marlaine Lockheed PDF
August 11, 2021 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Giving and racial outgroup-preferences

STIAS, Stellenbosch 2 June 2020
August 11, 2021 By: Mosima Ngwenya PDF
August 11, 2021 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Coerced indigenous labour and effort in pastoral agriculture: Lessons learnt from the nineteenth century Cape frontier

STIAS, Stellenbosch 26 May 2020
August 11, 2021 By: Calumet Links PDF
August 11, 2021 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

A discussion of key issues in South Africa’s basic education sector during the COVID-19 pandemic

STIAS, Stellenbosch 19 May 2020
August 11, 2021 By: Stephen Taylor PDF
August 11, 2021 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Climate, Weather and Development: Research in Sub-Saharan Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 12 May 2020
August 11, 2021 By: Thomas Ferreira PDF
August 11, 2021 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Out of control: Mending the broken feedback loops of water and electricity expenses at schools

STIAS, Stellenbosch 5 May 2020
August 11, 2021 By: Thinus Booysen PDF
August 11, 2021 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Labor Markets and Institutions in Postemancipation South Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 28 April 2020
August 11, 2021 By: Kara Dimitruk PDF
August 11, 2021 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

A century later: Lessons from the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918

STIAS, Stellenbosch 21 April 2020
August 11, 2021 By: Johan Fourie PDF
August 11, 2021 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Modelling COVID-19’s spread, severity and ICU capacity in South Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 14 April 2020
August 11, 2021 By: Alex van den Heever PDF
August 11, 2021 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Perseverance, Passion and Poverty: Examining the association between grit and reading achievement in high-poverty schools

STIAS, Stellenbosch 7 April 2020
August 11, 2021 By: Heleen Hofmeyr PDF
August 11, 2021 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Overview of Funda Wande and Bala Wande RCTs in EC and LP and collaborations with RESEP

STIAS, Stellenbosch 24 March 2020
August 11, 2021 By: Nic Spaull PDF
August 11, 2021 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

The Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect in mathematics in South Africa and its moderating factors

STIAS, Stellenbosch 10 March 2020
August 11, 2021 By: Debra Shepherd PDF
August 11, 2021 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Generosity and Gift Giving as Sources of Motivation for Health WorkersGenerosity and Gift Giving as Sources of Motivation for Health Workers

STIAS, Stellenbosch 3 March 2020
August 11, 2021 By: Kenneth Leonard PDF
August 11, 2021 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Does Class Size Matter in South African Secondary Schools? It Depends

STIAS, Stellenbosch 25 February 2020
August 11, 2021 By: Tim Kohler PDF
August 11, 2021 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Long-term effects of childhood exposure to war on domestic violence: Evidence from the Nigerian Civil War

STIAS, Stellenbosch 18 February 2020
August 11, 2021 By: Daniela Casale PDF
August 11, 2021 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches, Uncategorized

Challenges faced by individuals who have initiated TB treatment in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces: a mixed method approach

STIAS, Stellenbosch 11 February 2020
August 11, 2021 By: Khanya Mama PDF
February 4, 2020 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Nurse Staffing and the Quality Of Care

STIAS, Stellenbosch 4 February 2020
February 4, 2020 By: Karina Dietermann PDF
November 26, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Remittances and Household Welfare: Evidence from Zambia

STIAS, Stellenbosch 26 November 2019
November 26, 2019 By: Elizabeth Nanziri PDF
November 9, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

The Complementary Effects of Farm Input Subsidies and Health Care Quality

STIAS, Stellenbosch 19 November 2019
November 9, 2019 By: Martin Mwale PDF
November 5, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Minimum wages and firm dynamics: Preliminary evidence from the agricultural sector using South African administrative tax data

STIAS, Stellenbosch 5 November 2019
November 5, 2019 By: Marlies Piek PDF
October 29, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Disseminating your Research and Accessing Funding

STIAS, Stellenbosch 29 October 2019
October 29, 2019 By: Nic Spaull PDF
October 15, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Spatial autocorrelation in the non-profit sector: The role of demand and supply

STIAS, Stellenbosch 15 October 2019
October 15, 2019 By: Dineo Shirley PDF
October 8, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Determinants of Reading Ability – Investigating Non-Linear Relationships Using Generalised Structural Equation, Mediated, and Non-Parametric Modelling

STIAS, Stellenbosch 8 October 2019
October 8, 2019 By: Alex O'Riordan PDF
October 1, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Examining Child Health and Nutrition Inequality in Tanzania

STIAS, Stellenbosch 1 October 2019
October 1, 2019 By: RESEP Team PDF
September 10, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Segregation and Academic Achievement Gaps in the U.S.: New Evidence from Big Data

STIAS, Stellenbosch 10 September 2019
September 10, 2019 By: Sean Reardon PDF
September 10, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Segregation and academic achievement gaps in the U.S.: New evidence from big data

September 10, 2019 By: RESEP Team PDF
September 3, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Stressful Life Events, Neighbourhood Characteristics and Hypertension in South Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 3 September 2019
September 3, 2019 By: Trust Gangaidzo PDF
September 3, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Stressful Life Events, Neighbourhood Characteristics and Hypertension in South Africa

September 3, 2019 By: Trust Gangaidzo PDF
August 27, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Conflict, Measurement and Welfare: Collecting Household Survey Data in South Sudan

STIAS, Stellenbosch 27 August 2019
August 27, 2019 By: Arden Finn PDF
August 27, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Conflict, Measurement and Welfare: Collecting Household Survey Data in South Sudan

August 27, 2019 By: RESEP Team PDF
August 20, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

The Effect of Menstruation on Absenteeism of School Girls in South Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 20 August 2019
August 20, 2019 By: Chloé van Biljon PDF
August 20, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

The Effect of Menstruation on Absenteeism of School Girls in South Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 20 August 2019
August 20, 2019 By: Chloé van Biljon PDF
August 13, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Community Health Workers, Subsidies, and Safe Water: Evidence from Malawi

STIAS, Stellenbosch 13 August 2019
August 13, 2019 By: Pascaline Dupas (Stanford) PDF
August 13, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Community Health Workers, Subsidies, and Safe Water: Evidence from Malawi

STIAS, Stellenbosch 13 August 2019
August 13, 2019 By: Pascaline Dupas (Stanford) PDF
August 6, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Diversity Backlash? Migration, Ethnic Fractionalization and Violence in the Soviet Union

STIAS, Stellenbosch 6 August 2019
August 6, 2019 By: Young-ook Jang PDF
August 6, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Diversity Backlash? Migration, Ethnic Fractionalization and Violence in the Soviet Union

STIAS, Stellenbosch 6 August 2019
August 6, 2019 By: Young-ook Jang PDF
July 30, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Immigration and Preferences for redistribution in Europe

STIAS, Stellenbosch 30 July 2019
July 30, 2019 By: Elie Murard PDF
July 23, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Book Launch: State of the Nation

STIAS, Stellenbosch 23 July 2019
July 23, 2019 By: Ingrid Woolard PDF
July 9, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Strategies for Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Data in Mixed Methods Research

STIAS, Stellenbosch 9 July 2019
July 9, 2019 By: Tim Guetterman PDF
June 25, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Home is Where the Head is: The Spatial Relationship between Household Wealth and Early Childhood Cognitive Outcomes in the Context of a Maternal and Child Health Programme

STIAS, Stellenbosch 25 June 2019
June 25, 2019 By: Anja Smith, Ed Kirby PDF
June 11, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

The sustainability of early education interventions: Have learning gains and improved teacher practices persisted in the Early Grade Reading Study?

STIAS, Stellenbosch 11 June 2019
June 11, 2019 By: Stephen Taylor PDF
May 28, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Sparking a love for reading – fidelity, impact and sustainability of Story Powered Schools (cohort one)

STIAS, Stellenbosch 28 May 2019
May 28, 2019 By: Cally Ardington PDF
May 21, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Cost of education

STIAS, Stellenbosch 21 May 2019
May 21, 2019 By: Adaiah Lilenstein PDF
April 16, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Exceptional performance in PIRLS

STIAS, Stellenbosch 16 March 2019
April 16, 2019 By: Heleen Hofmeyr PDF
April 9, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Examining the impact of appointment reminders for TB treatment initiation and adherence in two Cape Town clinics

STIAS, Stellenbosch 09 April 2019
April 9, 2019 By: Ronelle Burger PDF
April 2, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Measuring inequality with grouped data: perspectives from historical records.

STIAS, Stellenbosch 02 April 2019
April 2, 2019 By: Dieter von Fintel, Calumet Links, Erik Green PDF
March 26, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Variance in employee engagement among public school teachers in the Western Cape Province: An exploratory study

STIAS, Stellenbosch 26 March 2019
March 26, 2019 By: Nicola van der Westhuizen PDF
March 19, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Misreporting of Intimate Partner Violence in Developing Countries: Measurement Error and New Strategies to Minimize it

STIAS, Stellenbosch 19 March 2019
March 19, 2019 By: Jorge Aguero PDF
March 12, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

The Economic Effects of District Reforms

STIAS, Stellenbosch 12 March 2019
March 12, 2019 By: Christian Lessmann PDF
February 26, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

The Politics & Governance of Basic Education: Applying the 2018 World Development Report to South Africa 

STIAS, Stellenbosch 26 February 2019
February 26, 2019 By: Brian Levy PDF
February 19, 2019 in Health, Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Early Lead Exposure and Outcomes in Adulthood

STIAS, Stellenbosch 19 February 2019
February 19, 2019 By: Peter Nilsson PDF
February 12, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

An analysis of poverty declines and dynamics in Namibia using 3 waves of cross-sectional data

STIAS, Stellenbosch 12 February 2019
February 12, 2019 By: Thomas Ferreira PDF
February 5, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Measuring leadership and management and their linkages with literacy in rural and township primary schools in South Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 5 February 2019
February 5, 2019 By: Gabrielle Wills PDF
January 29, 2019 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Using satellite data to assess the impact of agricultural minimum wages in South Africa

January 29, 2019 By: Dieter von Fintel, Marlies Piek, Seiro PDF
July 12, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Access to learning in Francophone Africa: Combining measures of schooling access and quality for comparable estimates across countries and over time

STIAS, Stellenbosch 26 June 2018
July 12, 2018 By: Adaiah Lilenstein PDF
July 12, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Exposure to international trade, private standards and labour law compliance: the case of agricultural minimum wages in South Africa

STIAS, Stellenboach 19 June 2018
July 12, 2018 By: Marlies Piek PDF
July 12, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

The returns to schooling in South Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 12 June 2018
July 12, 2018 By: Willem Wilken PDF
July 12, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Understanding the effects of Land Reform in Data Scarce Context

STIAS, Stellenbosch 5 June 2018
July 12, 2018 By: Tawanda Chingozha PDF
July 12, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Expropriation with compensation: The 1834 slave emancipation and intergenerational outcomes

STIAS, Stellenbosch 22 MAY, 2018
July 12, 2018 By: Igor Martins PDF
July 12, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Poverty dynamics and life trajectories in urban South Africa: A mixed methods investigation

STIAS, Stellenbosch 15 May 2018
July 12, 2018 By: Rocco Zizzamia (SALDRU) PDF
July 12, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Measurement of earnings: Comparing South African tax and survey data

STIAS, Stellenbosch 24 April 2018
July 12, 2018 By: Martin Wittenberg (UCT) PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Behavioural responses of taxpayers to Voluntary Disclosure Programmes: the case of South Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 17 March 2018
April 30, 2018 By: Chengetai Dare PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

A structural approach to modelling employment transitioning in South Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 6 March 2018
April 30, 2018 By: Cobus Burger, Simone Schotte PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Bargaining to work: the effect of female autonomy on female labour supply

STIAS, Stellenbosch 27 February 2018
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Social class wage penalties and education: Cross-sectional evidence and its implications for policy

STIAS, Stellenbosch 5 December 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Kristinn Hermannsson PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

TB mystery patient work and user-based measures

STIAS, Stellenbosch 7 November 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Ronelle Burger PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Interdisciplinary/Transdisciplinary Developmental Neuroscience of Poverty: Research Gaps in Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 24 October 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Barak Morgan PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Informal settlements and social mobility in post-apartheid South Africa: a longitudinal perspective in a low-growth environment

STIAS, Stellenbosch 24 October 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Eldridge Moses PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Who went to the Clinic? Lessons from Mission Hospital Patient Registers in Uganda, 1908-70

STIAS, Stellenbosch 17 October 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Dr Felix Meier Zu Selhausen PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

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

STIAS, Stellenbosch 3 October 2017
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Labour market outcomes and sexual orientation: An analysis of the South African labour market

STIAS, Stellenbosch 22 August 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Theo Klein PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

The effect of old age pensions on child depravation: revisiting the role of gender

STIAS, Stellenbosch 15 August 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Chloé van Biljon PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Firms & Skills Constraints: Evidence from eThekwini

STIAS, Stellenbosch 8 August 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Myriam Velia and Glen Robbins PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Evaluating the quality of TB screening in South Africa: preliminary pilot results

STIAS, Stellenbosch 1 August 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Carmen Sue Christian, Ronelle Burger, Carmen Sue, Christian Lopes PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

What role can curriculum and language play in performance differences in maths and science?

STIAS, Stellenbosch 18 July 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Debra Shepherd PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Is Matric still Matric? Generational shifts in labour market earnings

STIAS, Stellenbosch 20 June 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Cobus Burger PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Bridging the Learning Gaps in South Africa’s Public Education System – The Role of School Funding

STIAS, Stellenbosch 13 June 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Birgit Weyss PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Are female farmers more vulnerable to climate change? Evidence from Ghana

STIAS, Stellenbosch 6 June 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Thomas Ferreira PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Imperfect information and the wage-gap for South African men: statistical discrimination, employer learning and labour market signalling

STIAS, Stellenbosch 30 May 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Kholekile Malindi PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Examining rural development through qualitative-quantitative integrated livelihoods-analysis in the Eastern Cape

STIAS, Stellenbosch 23 May 2017
April 30, 2018 By: David Neves PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

The effects of TB medicine stock outs

STIAS, Stellenbosch 16 May 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Lisanne Koomen PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

The use of satellite data to measure socio-economic outcomes

STIAS, Stellenbosch 9 May 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Thomas Ferreira PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

South African employment trends: how reliable are the different data sources?

STIAS, Stellenbosch 2 May 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Rulof Burger, Derek Yu, Neil Rankin PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Focused antenatal care and low birth-weight deliveries in Malawi

STIAS, Stellenbosch 25 April 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Martina Mchenga PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Who makes it into PISA? Understanding the impact of PISA sample eligibility using Turkey as a case study (PISA 2003 – PISA 2012)

STIAS, Stellenbosch 18 April 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Nic Spaull PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Using Remote Sensing Data to Estimate the Effects of Land Reform in Developing Countries: Evidence from Zimbabwe

STIAS, Stellenbosch 4 April 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Tawanda Chingozha PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

A public expenditure review of school education in Namibia

STIAS, Stellenbosch 28 March 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Servaas van der Berg PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

An Econometric Method for Estimating Population Parameters from Non-Random Samples: An Application to Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Testing Data

STIAS, Stellenbosch 14 March 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Rulof Burger PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Non-profit accountability in a disconnected and divided South Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 28 February 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Ronelle Burger PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

It’s only a cough: exploring the health-seeking behaviour of persons who cough for more than two weeks

STIAS, Stellenbosch 21 February 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Carmen Sue Christian, Christian Lopes PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

The effect of plan-making prompts on job search and employment: Evidence from a South African randomised control trial

STIAS, Stellenbosch 14 February 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Rulof Burger PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

The short- and medium-term impacts of the Roving Caregivers Programme in St Lucia on early childhood cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes

STIAS, Stellenbosch 7 February 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Debra Shepherd PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Unequal households, unequal schools, and the consequences for education outcomes

STIAS, Stellenbosch 31 January 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Lewis McLean PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

How context matters: hierarchical, patronage and horizontal governance of basic education in the Western and Eastern Cape

STIAS, Stellenbosch 24 January 2017
April 30, 2018 By: Brian Levy PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

The relationship between hospital accreditation scores and health outcomes

STIAS, Stellenbosch 2 December 2016
April 30, 2018 By: Chloé van Biljon PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Economic Evaluation in a clinical trial to reduce transmission of MDR-TB in paediatric patients in South Africa (TB Champs): proposed approach and identified challenges

STIAS, Stellenbosch 1 November 2016
April 30, 2018 By: Martina Mchenga, Ronelle Burger, Tanja Kastien, Tommy Wilkonson PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Home background and educational outcomes: An analysis using NIDS

STIAS, Stellenbosch 25 October 2016
April 30, 2018 By: Heleen Hofmeyr PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Estimating the wage returns to experience and tenure for South African workers

STIAS, Stellenbosch 18 October 2016
April 30, 2018 By: Kholekile Malindi PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Instructional leadership in South African schools: Educators’ perceptions

STIAS, Stellenbosch 4 October 2016
April 30, 2018 By: Dumisani Hompashe PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Political culture and participation in South Africa: The role of socio-economic factors

STIAS, Stellenbosch 27 September 2016
April 30, 2018 By: Marisa von Fintel, George Ott PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Cooperation, transaction cost and heterogeneous saving-consumption response: Evidence from a natural experiment

STIAS, Stellenbosch 13 September 2016
April 30, 2018 By: Dambala Gelo PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

From Matric into and through university: Higher Education access and outcomes in South Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 16 September 2016
April 30, 2018 By: Hendrik van Broekhuizen PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Negative household events and depressive symptoms: Evidence from an unequal developing country

STIAS, Stellenbosch 30 August 2016
April 30, 2018 By: Marisa von Fintel, Ronelle Burger, Dori Posel PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Reference Letters and Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial

STIAS, Stellenbosch 23 August 2016
April 30, 2018 By: Rulof Burger PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Gender-specific costs and benefits to internal migration: a spatially filtered zero-inflated gravity model

STIAS, Stellenbosch 16 August 2016
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Assessing mental health and disorder in cultural context: some

STIAS, Stellenbosch 2 August 2016
April 30, 2018 By: Leslie Swartz PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Access to the counselling & testing services: comparing non-governmental community based and public Primary Healthcare services in South Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 26 July 2016
April 30, 2018 By: Laura Rossouw PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Interrogating the paradox of performance in the WCED: Provincial and regional comparisons of student learning

STIAS, Stellenbosch 5 July 2016
April 30, 2018 By: Debra Shepherd, Gabrielle Wills, Janeli Kotze PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Focused antenatal care in Malawi: How did the policy affect antenatal care utilization among pregnant women

STIAS, Stellenbosch 21 June 2016
April 30, 2018 By: Martina Mchenga PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

The Prevalence of Cheating in National Standardised Assessments in South African Schools / Applying the Jacob and Levitt (2003) method to the Annual National Assessments of 2013

STIAS, Stellenbosch 14 June 2016
April 30, 2018 By: Lauren Ross PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

The curious incident of a positive health shock: measuring the impact of ARV rollout on health improvements in South Africa, 2006 – 2012”

STIAS, Stellenbosch 7 June 2016
April 30, 2018 By: Cobus Burger PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Can we Measure changes in Social Welfare from Outer Space? Nightlights luminosity vs Surface Reflectance Data

STIAS, Stellenbosch 31 May 2016
April 30, 2018 By: Thomas Ferreira PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Impact of New Molecular Diagnostic Tests for TB

STIAS, Stellenbosch 17 May 2016
April 30, 2018 By: Pren Naidoo, Rory Dunbar PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

The effect of neighbourhoods and school quality on education performance and wages in South Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 10 May 2016
April 30, 2018 By: Asmus Zoch PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Health-related quality of life and its association with medication adherence in tuberculosis – an integrative patient-centred outcomes approach

STIAS, Stellenbosch 3 May 2016
April 30, 2018 By: Tanja Katien-Hilka PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Understanding the GBV in SDG 5: what is GBV and why is it so important to address?

STIAS, Stellenbosch 12 March 2016
April 30, 2018 By: Dr E le Roux PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Minimum wages in a tradable sector: are small firms more vulnerable?

STIAS, Stellenbosch 5 April 2016
April 30, 2018 By: Marlies Rothkegel PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Evaluating the benefits of a dialogic shared reading intervention as a way of improving early child development and contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals

STIAS, Stellenbosch 29 March 2016
April 30, 2018 By: Mark Tomlinson PDF
April 30, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

School functionality: Finding Ways to Make Schools Work & The wage path of South African men under labour market uncertainty and employer learning

STIAS, Stellenbosch 15 March 2016
April 30, 2018 By: Kholekile Malindi, Keorapetse Mogorosi PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

TB case finding in South Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 8 March 2016
April 25, 2018 By: Mareli Claassens PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Using mystery patients to measure quality of healthcare in the Western Cape

STIAS, Stellenbosch 16 February 2016
April 25, 2018 By: Anja Smith, Ronelle Burger PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

The Big Push Toward Universal Health Coverage: Metrics, Data, and Impact

STIAS, Stellenbosch 9 February 2016
April 25, 2018 By: Adam Wagstaff PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

It depends which side you are on: understanding the role that language in education plays in Grade 4 reading performance using a “natural experiment” of Botswana and South Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 2 February 2016
April 25, 2018 By: Debra Shepherd PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Developing and testing interventions to improve maternal and neonatal health outcomes: initial results from the Thula Baba Box experiment

STIAS, Stellenbosch 26 January 2016
April 25, 2018 By: Laura Rossouw PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Provincial administrations, post provisioning and small school questions

STIAS, Stellenbosch 19 January 2016
April 25, 2018 By: Martin Gustafsson PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Distribution application of student funding

STIAS, Stellenbosch 12 January 2016
April 25, 2018 By: Servaas van der Berg PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Significant others: The effects of cash transfers on reciprocal relations in Ghana

STIAS, Stellenbosch 8 December 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Ramlatu Attah PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Multidimensional poverty in South Africa between 2008 and 2012

STIAS, Stellenbosch 24 November 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Marisa von Fintel PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Multidimensional transfer trouble: an overview

STIAS, Stellenbosch 17 November 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Erwin Ooghe PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

“Do Education and Income Really Explain Inequalities in Health? Applying a Twin Design”

STIAS, Stellenbosch 3 November 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Ulf Gerdtham PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Spatial location and education outcome in Cape Town – a cohort analysis

STIAS, Stellenbosch 27 October 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Asmus Zoch PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Education Intervention: Estimating the Effectiveness of Ikamva Youth

STIAS, Stellenbosch 20 October 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Lewis McLean PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Affirmative action policies and the South African racial wage gap

STIAS, Stellenbosch 13 October 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Dieter von Fintel PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

The Demand for Reproductive Health Care

STIAS, Stellenbosch 6 October 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Steven Koch PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Does insurance affect health care utilisation if the health system is polarised? Evidence from a South African marginal treatment effect analysis

STIAS, Stellenbosch 29 September 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Rulof Burger PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Exploring Public Spending on Education Patterns: What Does the Contemporary Literature Tell Us about the Role of Macroeconomic Factors

STIAS, Stellenbosch 22 September 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Mark Millin PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

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

STIAS, Stellenbosch 15 September 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Dieter von Fintel PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

An analysis of learner performance using the Western Cape CEMIS data

STIAS, Stellenbosch 25 August 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Marisa von Fintel PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Measuring financial vulnerability amongst NGOs: An empirical study of Ugandan organisations

STIAS, Stellenbosch 11 August 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Berta Silva PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

A comparable yardstick: Adjusting for vulnerability bias in self-reported user satisfaction scores for health facility visits

STIAS, Stellenbosch 4 August 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Laura Rossouw PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Not worth the paper it’s written on: Self-reported information and the pursuit of improved governance and accountability

STIAS, Stellenbosch 28 July 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Ronelle Burger PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

A Profile of the Labour Market for School Principals in South Africa: Evidence to Inform Policy

April 25, 2018 By: RESEP Team PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

The effects of short vs long term unemployment on subjective well-being in South Africa – De Waal I feel good! The relationship between emotional well-being and health for poor individuals in South Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 23 June 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Ingrid de Waal, Carmen Sue & Christian Lopes PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Getting a Job: A study of South African Graduate Job Search Strategies

STIAS, Stellenbosch 2 June 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Janet Simpson PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Month of birth and later outcomes: Evidence from South Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 26 May 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Cally Ardington PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Estimating true multi-drug resistant tuberculosis prevalence rates: new results from a simulated maximum likelihood estimator

STIAS, Stellenbosch 19 May 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Rulof Burger PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Measuring economic mobility in Namibia using repeated cross-sections

STIAS, Stellenbosch 12 May 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Thomas Ferreira PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Agricultural minimum wages: an update after the 2012 farmworker strikes

STIAS, Stellenbosch 5 May 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Dieter von Fintel, Christopher Garbers, Louw Pienaar PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Which factors drive the location of microfinance institutions? Evidence from Peru

STIAS, Stellenbosch 21 April 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Annabel Vanroose PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

The effect of neighbourhood on wage and school outcomes where it matters

STIAS, Stellenbosch 14 April 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Asmus Zoch PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

The impact of language on learning in primary schools: some preliminary results

STIAS, Stellenbosch 31 March 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Marisa von Fintel, Nic Spaull PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Ramadan Induced School Holidays as a Natural Experiment: Impacts of Seasonality on School Enrollment Rates in Bangladesh

STIAS, Stellenbosch 24 March 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Seiro Ito PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Labour law and the economy: Views from the other side of Ryneveld Street

STIAS, Stellenbosch 17 March 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Christopher Garbers PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

The impact of the agricultural minimum wage on farmworker employment in South Africa: A fixed effects approach.

STIAS, Stellenbosch 10 March 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Christopher Garbers PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Teacher graduate production in South Africa: Insights from HEMIS

STIAS, Stellenbosch 3 March 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Hendrik van Broekhuizen PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Examining the impact of insurance on health care utilisation and provider choice using a natural experiment in South Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 24 February 2015
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

How to stimulate single mothers on welfare to find a job; evidence from a natural experiment

STIAS, Stellenbosch 17 February 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Jan van Ours PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

I did not know I was pregnant: late access to antenatal care in metropolitan Cape Town

STIAS, Stellenbosch 12 May 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Anja Smith PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Small-scale farming and hunger: the enabling role of social assistance programmes in South Africa’s former homelands

STIAS, Stellenbosch 3 February 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Dieter von Fintel, Louw Pienaar PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Discrimination in the Informal Sector: Evidence from Online Labor Markets in South Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 27 January 2015
April 25, 2018 By: Martin Able PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

The Thula Baba Box Project: Evaluating the impact of health resources and community health worker support on antenatal behaviour and health knowledge

STIAS, Stellenbosch 9 December 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Laura Rossouw PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Access to public health care in South Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 2 December 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Carmen Sue Christian, Carmen Sue, Christian Lopes PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

South Africa’s changing space economy and migration patterns: Implications for the new National Spatial Framework

STIAS, Stellenbosch 25 November 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Cruise PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Education, Skills and Inequality in the Labor Market

STIAS, Stellenbosch 18 November 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Edin Per-Anders PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Quantifying educational inequality: an application of Finite Mixture Modeling using TIMSS 2011 / Janet Graaff: Governance of South African No-Fee Schools: preliminary insights to be gained from qualitative and quantitative analysis

STIAS, Stellenbosch 13 November 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Debra Shepherd, Nic Spaull, Janet Graaff PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Motherhood and Female Labour Force Participation: new evidence on Agüero and Marks

STIAS, Stellenbosch 4 November 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Wicus PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Poverty and place in South Africa between 2001 and 2011

STIAS, Stellenbosch 21 October 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Eldridge Moses PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

A socio-economic analysis of the determinants of settler fertility: New evidence from South Africa, 1700-1910

STIAS, Stellenbosch 30 September 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Jeanne Cilliers PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Teacher qualification outputs at South African Universities

STIAS, Stellenbosch 23 September 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Hendrik van Broekhuizen PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Incentives for qualified teachers in Namibia’s remote schools

STIAS, Stellenbosch 2 September 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Servaas van der Berg PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Convenience samples, front-row forwards and the puzzle of English military recruits in the Anglo-Boer War

STIAS, Stellenbosch 26 August 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Johan Fourie PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Assessing lack of common support in causal inference using Bayesian Nonparametric: application for the effect of attending a historically advantaged school

STIAS, Stellenbosch 19 August 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Debra Shepherd PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Understanding, measuring and exploring unpaid care work

STIAS, Stellenbosch 12 August 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Debbie Budlender PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

South Africa’s Principal Labour Market: Principal Transitions and their Effects on Secondary School Outcomes

STIAS, Stellenbosch 29 July 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Gabrielle Wills PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Spatial comparisons of multidimensional poverty and inequality in Malawi

STIAS, Stellenbosch 22 July 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Anderson Gondwe PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

The impact of teacher characteristics on student performance: an analysis using hierarchical linear modelling

STIAS, Stellenbosch 17 June 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Paula Armstrong PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Returns to education in agricultural productivity in Malawi – An instrumental variable approach

STIAS, Stellenbosch 10 June 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Thomas Ferreira PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Testing Numeric: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial of a computer based mathematics intervention in Cape Town High Schools

STIAS, Stellenbosch 3 June 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Bianca Bohmer PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Jobs come and Go, but the Family will always be there

STIAS, Stellenbosch 27 May 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Alessio Gaggero PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Have workers been winners or losers since the end of apartheid?

STIAS, Stellenbosch 20 May 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Jeremy Seekings PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Economic mobility and measurement error in South Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 6 May 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Rulof Burger PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Earnings volatility in South Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 22 April 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Vimal Ranchhod PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Health perceptions in South Africa: testing for racial reporting heterogeneity in self-assessed health measures

STIAS, Stellenbosch 15 April 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Laura Rossouw PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Measuring Lived Poverty in South Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 8 April 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Robert Mattes PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Explaining employment trends through job creation and job destruction

STIAS, Stellenbosch 25 March 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Cobus Burger PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

HIV-related discrimination among Grade Six pupils in nine Southern African countries

STIAS, Stellenbosch 18 March 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Nic Spaull PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

How binding are family bonds? Estimating models of intra-household bargaining for South Africa

STIAS, Stellenbosch 11 March 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Rulof Burger PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

An Internationally Comparable Measure of SES

STIAS, Stellenbosch 4 March 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Janeli Viljoen PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Learning what mattes: a boosted regression tree approach to school production modelling

STIAS, Stelelnbosch 25 February 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Debra Shepherd PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Regional Perspectives of Multidimensional Poverty

STIAS, Stellenbosch 18 February 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Atika Pasha PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Subsistence Agriculture and Education in Malawi: Preliminary findings

STIAS, Stellenbosch 11 February 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Thomas Ferreira PDF
April 25, 2018 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Rising inequalities in income and health in China: Who is left behind?

STIAS, Stellenbosch 28 January 2014
April 25, 2018 By: Eddy van Doorslaer PDF
October 6, 2015 in Previous Brown Bag Lunches

Education Intervention: Estimating the Effectiveness of Ikamva Youth

STIAS, Stellenbosch 20 October 2015
October 6, 2015 By: Lewis McLean PDF