Dieter von Fintel

Dieter von Fintel

PhD (Stell), MComm (Stell)

Affiliations

Vice Dean: Research, Postgraduate Affairs & Internationalisation, Economic and Management Sciences

Professor of Economics, Stellenbosch

Research on Socioeconomic Policy (ReSEP), Stell

Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past (LEAP), Stell

Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn.

Pan-African Scientific Research Council, (PASRC)

Global Labor Organisation (GLO)

Contact

dieter2[at]sun.ac.za | +27 (21) 808-2242

CGW Schumann Building 619A, Bosman Street, Stellenbosch

 

Online profiles

LinkedIn, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, RePEC, ORCID

 

Research

My research focusses on understanding impacts of historical and contemporary policies on wealth inequality, spatial inequality, local labour markets, food security and human development in sub-Saharan Africa. I study differences in development outcomes using survey, administrative and satellite data.

 

Publications
(with links to working paper or open access versions)

Income Mobility before Industrialization: Evidence from South Africa’s Cape Colony, Social Science History, forthcoming (with Johan Fourie, Erick Green and Auke Rijpma)

Childhood circumstances, social mobility and the obesity transition: Evidence from South AfricaEconomics and Human Biology, forthcoming (with Kate Rich)

The impact of agricultural minimum wages on worker flows in South AfricaSouth African Journal of Economics, forthcoming (with Marlies Piek and Johann Kirsten)

Can women’s reports in client exit interviews be used to measure and track progress of antenatal care services quality? Evidence from a facility assessment census in Malawi, PlosOne, Vol 18(7):e0274650 (with Martina Mchenga and Ronelle Burger)

Investigating the effects of drought and lockdowns on smallholder and commercial agricultural production in KwaZulu-Natal using remotely sensed data, Heliyon, Vol 8 (with Noé Careme Manfouo Fouotsa)

The effectiveness of affirmative action policies in South Africa. In A. Deshpande (Ed.),The Handbook of Discrimination and Affirmative Action (with Rulof Burger and Rachel Jafta)

Child nutrition and farm input subsidies: the complementary role of early healthcare and nutrition programmes in Malawi, Food Policy, Vol 113 (with Martin Mwale and Anja Smith)

Decomposing Inequality of Opportunity in Child Health in Tanzania: The Role of Access to Water and Sanitation, Health Economics, Vol 31 (with Jaah Mkupete and Ronelle Burger)

Stunting, double orphanhood and unequal access to public services in South Africa, Economics and Human Biology, Vol 44. (with Grace Bridgman), 2022

Validation of a roadmap for mainstreaming nutrition-sensitive interventions at state level in Nigeria, Nutrition Journal, Vol 19(96) (with Xikombiso Mbhenyane, Oluchi Ezekannagha, Scott Drimie and Busie Mabiya-Dixon), 2020

Wealth inequality and financial inclusion: evidence from South African tax and survey records (with Anna Orthofer), Economic Modelling, Vol 91, 2020.

Sectoral minimum wages in South Africa: disemployment by firm size and trade exposure (with Marlies Piek), Development Southern Africa, Vol 37(3), 2020.

Intergenerational transfer of health inequalities: Exploration of mechanisms in the Birth to Twenty cohort in South Africa (with Linda Richter), BMJ Global Health, Vol 4(5), 2019

The great divergence in South Africa: population and wealth dynamics over two centuries (with Johan Fourie), Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol 47(4), 2019.

The Complementarity between Property Rights and Market Access for Crop Cultivation in Southern Rhodesia: Evidence from Historical Satellite Data (with Tawanda Chingozha), Economic History of Developing Regions, Vol 34:2, 132-155, 2019

Examining the impact of WHO’s Focused Antenatal Care policy on early access,underutilisation and quality of antenatal care services in Malawi: a retrospective study,(with Martina Mchenga & Ronelle Burger),  BMC Health Services Research, Vol. 19: 295, 2019

Long-run spatial inequality in South Africa: early settlement patterns and separate development, Studies in Economics and Econometrics, Vol 42(2), 2018

Migration and gender in South Africa: following bright lights and the fortunes of others, (with Eldridge Moses) Regional Science Policy and Practice, Vol. 9(4), 2017

The uneven link between economic growth and employment in South Africa, Studies in Economics and Econometrics, Vol. 41(3): 85-91, 2017

Institutional wage-setting, labour demand and labour supply: causal estimates from a South African pseudo-panel, Development Southern Africa, Vol. 34(1), 2017

Errors in recalling childhood socio-economic status: the role of anchoring and household formation in South Africa (with Dori Posel), Social Indicators Research, Vol 126(1), 2016

The Unintended Consequences of Education Policies on South African Participation and Unemployment (with Rulof Burger and Servaas van der Berg), South African Journal of Economics, Vol 83(1), 2015

Hunger in the former apartheid homelands: determinants of converging food security 100 years after the 1913 Land Act (with [protected email address] ), Agrekon, Vol 53(4), 2014

Rising unemployment in a growing economy: A business cycle, generational and life cycle perspective of post-transition South Africa’s labour market (with Rulof Burger), Studies in Economics and Econometrics,Vol 38(1), 2014

Settler skills and colonial development: the Huguenot wine-makers in eighteenth-century Dutch South Africa. (with Johan Fourie) Economic History Review, Vol 67(4), 2014

The Wealth of Cape Colony Widows: Inheritance Laws and Investment Responses Following Male Death in the 17th and 18th Centuries (with Sophia du Plessis and Ada Jansen), Economic History of Developing Regions, Vol 28(1): 87-108, 2013

Towards understanding the impact of the international financial crisis on child poverty: Lessons from South Africa. In (eds.) Harper, C., Jones, N., Mendoze, R.U., Stewart, D. and Strand, E., Children in Crisis: Seeking Child-Sensitive Policy Responses. (with Margaret Chitiga, Bernard Decaluwé, Ramos Mabugu, Hélène Maisonnave, Véronique Robichaud, Debra Shepherd and Servaas van der Berg), 2012.

The Fruit of the Vine? An Augmented Endowments-Inequality Hypothesis and the Rise of an Elite in the Cape Colony (with Johan Fourie) in Amsdem, Di Caprio and Robinson (eds) The Role of Elites in Economics Development. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2012.

'n Ongelyke Oes: Die Franse Hugenote en die vroeë Kaapse wynbedryf. (met Johan Fourie) - Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe. Vol. 51(3): 332-353, 2011.

A History with Evidence: Income inequality in the Dutch Cape Colony (with Johan Fourie) - Economic History of Developing Regions, Vol. 26(1), 2011.

Residential Property Prices in a Sub-Market of South Africa: Separating Real Returns from Attribute Growth (with Michael Els) - South African Journal of Economics Vol 78(4): 418-436, 2010.

Dynamics of inequality in a newly settled pre-industrial society: the case of the Cape Colony (with Johan Fourie), Cliometrica Vol 4(3): 229-267, 2010.

The South African Labour Market in the Global Financial Crisis - recovering lost gains (with Rulof Burger) - Chapter for the Transformation Audit 2009, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation.

Dealing With Earnings Bracket Responses In Household Surveys - How Sharp Are Midpoint Imputations? South African Journal of Economics Vol 71, 2007

Teaching

Econometrics (771), Advanced Econometrics (871)

Labour (771)

Development (871)

 

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