Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 86
Cover Image
Settler skills and colonial development
Fourie, Johan; Fintel, Dieter von - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2011
The emphasis on location-specific factors, such as climate or disease environment, in the explanation of development outcomes in colonial societies implicitly assumes that settler groups were homogenous. Using tax records, this paper shows that the French Huguenots who immigrated to Dutch South...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003252
Cover Image
Production, Inequality and Poverty linkages in South Africa
Ngepah, Nicholas - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2011
The Kuznets inequality-development hypothesis can be tested with time-series data rather than the cross … output and inequality. South Africa has been under-researched in this area due to a lack of data. Recent data released by the … Presidency of South Africa makes such analysis possible. Besides, the use of a single inequality index in such a multiracial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876346
Cover Image
Slave numeracy in the Cape Colony and comparative development in the eighteenth century
Baten, Jörg; Fourie, Johan - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2012
The lack of accurate measures of human capital formation often constrain investigations into the long-run determinants of growth and comparative economic development, especially in regions such as Africa. Using the reported age of criminals in the Courts of Justice records in the Cape Archive,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133839
Cover Image
Migration, Congestion Externalities, and the Evaluation of Spatial Investments
Dinkelman, Taryn; Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Evaluations of new infrastructure in developing countries typically focus on direct effects, such as the impact of an electrifification program on household energy use. But if new infrastructure induces people to move into an area, other local publicly provided goods may become congested,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083273
Cover Image
Mitigating long-run health effects of drought: Evidence from South Africa
Dinkelman, Taryn - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Drought is Africa’s primary natural disaster and a pervasive source of income risk for poor households. This paper documents the long-run health effects of early life exposure to drought and investigates an important source of heterogeneity in these effects. Combining birth cohort variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083817
Cover Image
The Expected Well-being of Urban Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Johannesburg
Greyling, Talita - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2015
The influx of asylum seekers and refugees from across Africa to democratic South Africa has increased significantly. The aim of this paper is to determine the factors that influence the ‘expected well-being’ of this unique group. ‘Expected well-being’ is an important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011204515
Cover Image
A regional perspective on Aid and FDI in Southern Africa
Bezuidenhout, Henri - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2009
During the last decade international aid flows diminished while Africa’s relative share of global foreign direct investment (FDI) declined. This went together with lacklustre growth and low human development levels. In 2005, the G8 countries announced that they would increase aid to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563265
Cover Image
Characterizing Conflict Forms
Fedderke, Johannes; Kularatne, Chandana - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2008
This paper presents a model in which two groups in society are engaged in strategic interaction. Privileged members of society have the opportunity to allocate resources either to their own productive capacity, or to enhance the productive capacity of the disadvantaged. Redistribution to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563270
Cover Image
Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay
Falk, Armin; Menrath, Ingo; Siegrist, Johannes; Verde, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144731
Cover Image
Relative standing and subjective well-being in South Africa: The role of perceptions, expectations and income mobility
Posel, Dorrit; Casale, Daniela - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2011
Most studies that explore the impact of relative standing on subjective well-being use objective measures of the individual’s relative position, such as the mean income of the reference group or the individual’s ranking in the relevant income distribution. In this paper, using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876347