Supervisor: Professor Servaas van der Berg Institution: Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, Department of Economics Abstract: In order to evaluate the extent…
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP13/2011 Abstract: School retention in South Africa and performance in the major school-leaving matric examination are characterised by significant inequalities…
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP16/2011 Abstract: The paper estimates the impact of the South African Child Support Grant (CSG) on child health, nutrition and…
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP22/2011 Abstract: We develop a model of regulation of service-delivery NGOs, where future grants are conditional on prior spending of…
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP07/2012 Abstract: VAT without any exemptions or zero-rating is regressive. Since the inception of VAT in South Africa, there has…
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP11/2012 Abstract: In the late 1990s the South African Department of Education implemented two policies that were meant to reduce…
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP12/2012 Abstract: Analysts such as Hanushek and Woessman have brought to the fore the deceptiveness of education enrolments, or years…
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP13/2012 Abstract: Although racial segregation has been abolished for 18 years now, schools which served predominantly White students under apartheid…
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP15/2012 Abstract: This paper analyses trends in hours worked from South African household survey data for the period 1997 –…
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP18/2012 Abstract: The persistently high unemployment rate has always been one of the most pressing socio-economic problems of the South…
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP21/2012 Abstract: In this paper we question the existing practice of reporting enrolment statistics that ignore quality, but also quality-statistics…
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP22/2012 Abstract: Increasing reference in the media and public discussions to high and rising levels of graduate unemployment in the…
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP23/2012 Abstract: In South Africa, like in many developing countries, the differences between enrolment totals, estimated by the education authorities,…
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP01/2013 Abstract: Have recent expansions of access to primary schooling in African countries led to deterioration in the quality of…
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP03/2013 Abstract: In order to evaluate the extent to which a country achieves the objectives of poverty and inequality reduction,…
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP04/2013 Abstract: One of the most pressing socio-economic problems of the South African economy is high youth unemployment. Recent studies…
SPAULL NA. Schooling in South Africa: How low-quality education becomes a poverty trap. In: De Lannoy A, Swartz S, Lake L, Smith C (eds.) South…
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP05/2013 Abstract: The National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), introduced since 2008, has become an alternative data source for the South…
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP08/2013 Abstract: This paper aims to determine the degree to which class and socio-economic background influence a child’s life chances…
CHITIGA M, DECALUWE B, MABUGU ERM, MAISONNAVE H, ROBICHAUD R, SHEPHERD DL, VAN DER BERG S, VON FINTEL D.P. A retrospective look at how well…
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