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Life satisfaction and education in South Africa: Investigating the role of attainment and the likelihood of education as a positional good
Botha, Ferdi - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2013
This paper explores various dynamics in the relationship between life satisfaction and education in South Africa using … that education is a positional good, in that people who have attained more than the mean level of education in their … relevant cluster are significantly more satisfied with life compared to those possessing less than the mean education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010662822
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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
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Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Risk Aversion and Gender Discrimination in Assessment
Hartford, Jason; Spearman, Nic - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2014
This study exploits a natural experiment to evaluate the gender bias effect associated with negative marking due to gender-differentiated risk aversion. This approach avoids framing effects that characterize experimental evaluation of negative marking assessments. Evidence of a gender bias...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747550
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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and Equality of Opportunity in South Africa
Piraino, Patrizio - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2014
The paper estimates the degree of intergenerational earnings persistence in South Africa. It explores the link between this measure of social mobility and an index of inequality of opportunity. Using microdata from the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), the paper finds that intergenerational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888684
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Exploring Unbalanced Growth in South Africa: Understanding the Sectoral Structure of the South African Economy
Fedderke, Johannes W. - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2014
This paper explores the reasons for the unbalanced growth structure of South Africa. While a number of emerging markets show a high proportion of value added and employment being generated by the service sector, South Africa is one of very few such economies that also show a strong decline in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010940468
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An Economic Model of the Apartheid State
Lowenberg, Anton D. - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2014
Rather than a rigid racial ideology, it is argued that South African apartheid was a pragmatic response of a white oligarchy to changing economic and political constraints. Consequently, the degree to which apartheid principles were applied and enforced by the South African state varied over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929135
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The wealth of the Cape Colony: Measurements from probate inventories
Fourie, Johan - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2012
The stylized view of the Dutch Cape Colony (1652-1795) is of a poor, subsistence economy, with little progress in the first 143 years of Dutch rule. New evidence from probate inventory and auction roll records show that previous estimates about wealth at the Cape are inaccurate. In contrast to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535393
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The Economics of Information Technology in Public Sector Health Facilities in Developing Countries: The Case of South Africa
Cline, Gregory B.; Luiz, John M. - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2011
The public healthcare sector in developing countries face many challenges, including weak healthcare systems and under resourced facilities that deliver poor outcomes relative to total healthcare expenditure. Healthcare delivery, access to healthcare and cost containment has the potential for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319023
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Talking to the inattentive public: How the media translates the Reserve Bank’s communications
Reid, Monique; Plessis, Stan Du - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2011
Central bank communication is widely recognised as crucial to the implementation of monetary policy. This communication should enhance a central bank’s management of the inflation expectations of the financial markets as well as the general public — the latter being a part of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369289
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Estimating the inflation threshold for South Africa
Leshoro, Temitope L.A. - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2012
How detrimental is inflation to growth in South Africa? At what level? Motivated by the adoption of inflation targeting by many countries, this paper sets out to empirically determine the threshold level of inflation in South Africa. This study adopts quarterly time series data spanning over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549210