Stellenbosch well represented at ESSA2013 conference

A large contingent from the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University recently attended the very succesful Biennial Conference of the Economic Society of South Africa held in Bloemfontein. A total of 35 papers (click on "Read More" below to see a list) were presented by delegates from the Department and their co-authors. In addition, Servaas van der Berg presented a keynote address entitled "Education, poverty and affluence - a South African perspective" (more detail on the address available here).

Most of the papers can be downloaded in pdf format and all abstracts can be viewed at the conference website.

• Ronelle Burger, Carmen McAvarey, Servaas Van Der Berg, The Capability Threshold: Re-Examining the Definition of the Middle Class in an Unequal Developing Country
• Nwabisa Makaluza, Double-edged sword: Segmentation within the South African informal sector
• Le Roux Burrows, Anthonie Botha, Explaining the changing input-output multipliers in South African: 1980-2010
• Charles Adams, Rochelle Gallant, Ada Jansen, Derek Yu, A multidimensional analysis of non-income poverty in South Africa in 1993-2011
• Martin Abel, Rulof Burger, Patrizio Piraino, Productivity Signals in the Labour Market: Evidence from South Africa
• Debra Shepherd, Distributive effects of curriculum coverage in South Africa: an unconditional quantile regression approach
• Friedrich Kreuser, Do Family Bonds Bind? Testing the Unitary and Collective Models of Household Behaviour on South African Data
• Sophia Du Plessis, Ada Jansen, Krige Siebrits, Money well spent? Assessing the effectiveness of expenditure on road accident prevention programmes in South Africa
• Estian Calitz, Krige Siebrits, Ian Stuart, The accuracy of fiscal forecasts in South Africa
• Maria Ngarachu, Neil Rankin, Gareth Roberts, Volker Schoer, Can an intervention aimed at improving economic inclusion make recipients less happy? Findings from a Randomized Control Trial of a targeted youth wage subsidy in South Africa.
• Ada Jansen, Mariana Moses, Stanford Mujuta, Derek Yu, Multifaceted poverty: Absolute, relative and subjective poverty in South Africa
• Malan Rietveld, An institutional analysis of sovereign wealth funds
• Anja Smith, Ronelle Burger, Explaining the demand for medical scheme membership: implications for National Health Insurance (NHI)
• Dawid Johannes Van Lill, The Decoupling Principle
• Stan Du Plessis, Monique Reid, The exchange rate dimension of inflation targeting: target levels and currency volatility
• Neil Rankin, Wage subsidies and youth employment in South Africa. Evidence from a randomised control trial
• Janeli Viljoen, Does falling behind lead to being left behind? – Evidence form the National School Effectiveness Study (2007-2009)
• Asmus Zoch, Life chances and class: Estimating inequality of opportunity in South Africa for various life stages
• Marisa Coetzee, Measuring the effect of school choice on the performance of disadvantaged learners: The case of South Africa
• Frederick Lutz, Using Google Trends to Nowcast Consumer Confidence in South Africa
• Gideon Du Rand, Stan Du Plessis, An Agent Based Computational Model of Monetary Policy, Banking and Bank Regulation
• Pierre De Villiers, Chris Van Wyk, A longitudinal cohort analysis of Higher Education in South Africa
• Marisa Coetzee, Stephen Taylor, Estimating the impact of a switch in the language of learning and teaching in South African primary schools
• Benjamin Willem Smit, Christelle Grobler, Catrijne Elizabeth Ijssel De Schepper, The macroeconomic effects of a sudden stop (slowdown) in South Africa's foreign capital inflows
• Hendrik Van Broekhuizen, Higher Education and Graduate Labour Market Status in South Africa
• Hylton Hollander, The influence of financial factors on credit spread variability in U.S. business cycles: a New-Keynesian perspective
• Tasha Naughtin, Neil Rankin, Exporting, Importing and Productivity: An Investigation of the Dynamics of the Entry and Exit into the Export and Import Market
• Cobus Burger, Using discrete choice dynamic programming to model job search and reservation wages in South Africa
• Kholekile Malindi, Wage effects of labour market experience and job tenure for black South African male workers
• Monique Reid, Stan Du Plessis, See no inflation, hear no inflation: how the media influences inflation expectations in South Africa
• Asmus Zoch, Understanding the underlying dynamics of the reservation wage for South African youth
• Stan Du Plessis, Reinterpreting a famous paper in monetary economics
• Martin Gustafsson, Stephen Taylor, Treating schools to a new administration: The impact of South Africa’s 2005 provincial boundary changes on school performance
• Estian Calitz, Krige Siebrits, Ian Stuart, Enhancing the credibility of fiscal forecasts in South Africa: Is a fiscal council the only way?
• Rulof Burger, Estimating the South African schooling-productivity profile: A production function approach