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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...

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Colonial Rule, Apartheid and Natural Resources: Top Incomes in South Africa, 1903-2007

Alvaredo, Facundo; Atkinson, Anthony B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

There have been important studies of overall income inequality and of poverty in South Africa. In this paper, we approach the subject from a different direction: the extent and evolution of top incomes. We present estimates of the shares in total income of groups such as the top 1 per cent and...

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Exchange Rate Pass-through and Monetary Policy in South Africa

Aron, Janine; Farrell, Greg; Muellbauer, John; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Understanding how import prices adjust to exchange rates helps anticipate inflation effects and monetary policy … inflation targeting when account is taken of temporary shifts to foreign currency invoicing or increased hedging after large …

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South-South migration and the labor market: Evidence from South Africa

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mendola, Mariapia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 we study the labor market effect of immigration to South Africa. The paper contributes to a small but growing literature on the impact of South-South migration by looking at one of the most attractive destinations for migrant workers in Sub--Saharan...

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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,...

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Some Issues in Modeling and Forecasting Inflation in South Africa

Aron, Janine; Muellbauer, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Inflation targeting central banks will be hampered without good models to assist them to be forward-looking. Many … current inflation models fail to forecast turning points adequately, because they miss key underlying long-run influences. The … world is on the cusp of a dramatic turning point in inflation. If inflation falls rapidly, such models can underestimate the …

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Understanding South Africa's Economic Puzzles

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

South Africa has undergone a remarkable transformation since its democratic transition in 1994, but economic growth and employment generation have been disappointing. Most worryingly, unemployment is currently among the highest in the world. While the proximate cause of high unemployment is that...

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Review of Monetary Policy in South Africa: 1994-2004

Aron, Janine; Muellbauer, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

expectations data and forward interest rate data used to assess the credibility and predictability of policy under inflation …

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Location and Education in South African Cities Under and After Apartheid

Selod, Harris; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We model a South African city during Apartheid (in which both schooling and mobility are restricted on the basis of race) and after Apartheid (in which no restrictions are imposed). We first show that the inequality between blacks and whites decreases when Apartheid laws are removed. Indeed,...

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Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Domestic Competition, and Inflation: Evidence from the 2005/08 Revaluation of the Renminbi

Auer, Raphael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

pronounced increase of aggregate US producer price inflation. …

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