2021

Research Report : Economics 2021

Journal Articles (subsidised)

AGER P, BOUSTAN L, ERIKSSON KA. The intergenerational effects of a large wealth shock: White Southerners after the Civil War. American Economic Review 2021; 111(11):3767-3794.

ARDINGTON C, WILLS G, KOTZE J. COVID-19 learning losses: Early grade reading in South Africa. International Journal of Educational Development 2021; 86:102480, 11 pages.

BANTJES JR, DU PLESSIS SWF, JANSEN AI, SIEBRITS FK. Better Enforcement Is Essential, but May Be Inadequate: Findings of a Survey on the Factors Affecting Payment of Speeding Fines in Cape Town, South Africa. Sustainability 2021; 13(9):5028, 16 pages.

BASSIER I, WOOLARD ID. Exclusive growth? Rapidly increasing top incomes amid low national growth in South Africa. South African Journal of Economics 2021; 89(2):246-273.

BOCK M, FELDKIRCHER M, SIKLOS PLS. International effects of Euro Area forward guidance. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 2021; 83(5):1066-1110.

BOSHOFF WH, PAHA J. List Price Collusion. Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade 2021; 21:393-409.

BOSHOFF WH. South African competition policy on excessive pricing and its relation to price gouging during the Covid-19 disaster period. South African Journal of Economics 2021; 89(1):112-140.

BREDENKAMP C, BURGER R, JOURDAN A, VAN DOORSLAER EKA. Changing Inequalities in Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy by Income and Race in South Africa. Health Systems & Reform 2021; 7(2):e1909303, 12 pages.

BURGER R, CALDWELL J, CLAASSENS MM, MAMA K, NAIDOO P, RIEGER M, ROSSOUW L, VAN DOORSLAER EKA, WAGSTAFF A. Who is more likely to return for TB test results? A survey at three high-burden primary healthcare facilities in Cape Town, South Africa. International Journal of Infectious Diseases 2021; 113:259-267.

CALITZ E, MUWANGA-ZAKE E, SITHOLE A, STEYN W. Depreciation allowances in South Africa. Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics 2021; 45(1):1-22.

CILLIERS J, MARIOTTI GM. Stop! Go! What can we learn about family planning from birth timing in Settler South Africa, 1835-1950?. Demography 2021; 58(3):901-925.

CROUCH L, ROLLESTON C, GUSTAFSSON MA. Eliminating global learning poverty: The importance of equalities and equity. International Journal of Educational Development 2021; 82:102250, 13 pages.

DANG CT, BURGER R, OWENS T. Do Better-Performing Nongovernmental Organisations report more accurately? Evidence from Financial Accounts in Uganda. Economic development and cultural change 2021; 69(2):789-828.

DE HAAS S, PAHA J. Non-Controlling Minority Shareholdings and Collusion. Review of Industrial Organization 2021; 58(3):431-454.

DE PLEIJT A, VAN ZANDEN JL. Two worlds of female labour: gender wage inequality in Western Europe, 1300-1800. Economic History Review 2021; 74(3):611-638.

DIMITRUK KA, DU PLESSIS SWF, DU PLESSIS SA. De jure property rights and state capacity: Evidence from land specification in the Boer Republics. Journal of Institutional Economics 2021; 17(5):764-780.

DIMITRUK KA. Political coalitions in the House of Commons, 1660-1690: New data and applications. Historical Methods 2021; 54(3):172-187.

DU PLESSIS SA, REID MB, SIKLOS PLS. What drives household inflation expectations in South Africa? Demographics and anchoring under inflation targeting. Economic Systems 2021; 45:100878, 20 pages.

DU RAND GP, ERASMUS RL, HOLLANDER H, REID MB, VAN LILL DJ. The Evolution of Central Bank Communication as experienced by the South Africa Reserve Bank. Economic History of Developing Regions 2021; 36(2):282-312.

EKAMA KJ, FOURIE J, HEESE HF, MARTIN L. When Cape slavery ended: Introducing a new slave emancipation dataset. EXPLORATIONS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY 2021; 81(5):101390, 15 pages.

ERIKSSON KA, ABRAMITZKY R, BOUSTAN L, FEIGENBAUM J, PÉREZ S. Automated Linking of Historical Data. Journal of Economic Literature 2021; 59(3):865-918.

ERIKSSON KA, RUSS K, SHAMBAUGH JC, XU M. Trade shocks and the shifting landscape of U.S. manufacturing. Journal of international money and finance 2021; 111(1):102254, 19 pages.

FEINGOLD E, FOURIE J, GARDNER LA. A tale of paper and gold: The material history of money in South Africa. Economic History of Developing Regions 2021; 36(2):264-281.

FOURIE J, GREYLING JC, MURARD E, DE KADT D, NORLING J. Correlates and consequences of the 1918 influenza in South Africa. South African Journal of Economics 2021; 89(2):173-195.

FOURIE J, JAYES JA. Health inequality and the 1918 influenza in South Africa. World Development 2021; 141:105407, 18 pages.

FOURIE J, MAPHOSA LM, EHLERS A, KERBY EM. The growth and diversity of the Cape private capital market, 1892-1902. Economic History of Developing Regions 2021; 36(2):149-174.

FOURIE J, ROMMELSPACHER AF. Marriage in the Mother City: The Anglican marriage records of Cape Town, 1865-1960. New Contree: A Journal of Historical and Human Sciences for Southern Africa 2021; 87:122-141.

FOURIE J. Macroeconomic history in South Africa: The South African Reserve Bank centennial special issue. Economic History of Developing Regions 2021; 36(2):117-121.

FOURIE J. Making South African historians count. Historia : Journal of the Historical Association of South Africa 2021; 66(1):3-14.

GARCIA BARRAGAN F, LIU G. Great recession, exports crunch and China's fiscal stimulus in a global zero lower bound environment. Journal of Asian Economics 2021; 75:101323, 19 pages.

HOFMEYR H. Perseverance, Passion and Poverty: Examining the association between grit and reading achievement among high-poverty schools in South Africa. International Journal of Educational Development 2021; 83:102376, 13 pages.

HOLLANDER H, ERASMUS RL. A forward guidance indicator for the South African Reserve Bank: Implementing a text analysis algorithm. Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics 2021; 44(3):41-72.

HOLLANDER H, HAVEMANN RC. South Africa's 2003-2013 credit boom and bust: Lessons for macroprudential policy. Economic History of Developing Regions 2021; 36(2):339-365.

HOMPASHE DM, GERDTHAM U G, CHRISTIAN CS, SMITH AM, BURGER R. 'The nurse did not even greet me": how informed versus non-informed patients evaluate health systems responsiveness in South Africa. BMJ Global Health 2021; 6:e004360, 9 pages.

HUNT XD, STEIN DJ, SPAULL NA, TOMLINSON MR. Hunger as a driver of depressive symptoms: Optimising responses to mental health aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. SAMJ South African Medical Journal 2021; 111(7):604-605.

JANSEN AI, NGOBENI W, SITHOLE A, STEYN W. The Corporate income tax gap in South Africa: a top-down approach. Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics 2021; 45(1):53-69.

KRIPFGANZ S, KIVIET JF. Kinkyreg: Instrument-free inference for linear regression models with endogenous regressors. Stata Journal 2021; 21(3):772-813.

LIU G, MOLISE TE. The effectiveness of the counter-cyclical loan-to-value regulation: generic versus sector-specific rules. International Review of Economics & Finance 2021; 72:270-288.

MWALE ML, MCHENGA M, CHIRWA GC, KAMWANJA TZ. Micro-finance and women's perception of domestic violence in a fragile state. World Development Perspectives 2021; 24:100374, 8 pages.

PAHA J, SCHUMACHER R, SAUTTER T. Some effects of EU sugar reforms on development in Africa. Intereconomics 2021; 56(5):288-294.

PAHA J, WOLTER L. IT-Sektor: Chancen fur deutsch-nigerianische Wirtschafts- und Entwicklungsparnerschaft. Wirtschaftsdienst 2021; 101(10):821-826.

REID MB, SIKLOS PLS, GUETTERMAN T, DU PLESSIS SA. The role of financial journalists in the expectations channel of the monetary transmission mechanism. Research in International Business and Finance 2021; 55 :101320, 15 pages.

ROSS RJ, MARTIN L. Accommodation and Resistance: The Housing of Cape Town's Enslaved and Freed Population Before and After Emancipation. Journal of Southern African Studies 2021; 47(3):417-435.

ROSSOUW L, BURGER R, BURGER RP. Testing an Incentive-Based and Community Health Worker Package Intervention to Improve Maternal Health and Nutrition Outcomes: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. Maternal and Child Health Journal 2021; 25:1913-1922.

SIKLOS PLS, BOHL MT, PUTZ A, SULEWSKI C. Information Transmission under increasing Political Tension - Evidence for the Berlin Produce Exchange 1890-1896. Journal of Futures Markets 2021; 41(2):226-244.

SIKLOS PLS, STEFAN M. Exchange Rate shocks in multicurrency interbank makets. Journal of Financial Stability 2021; 55:100888, 21 pages.

SIKLOS PLS. The macroeconomic response to real and financial factors, commodity prices, and monetary policy: International evidence. Economic Systems 2021; 45(1):100850, 11 pages.

SPAULL NA, PRETORIUS E, MOHOHLWANE N. Investigating the comprehension iceberg: Developing empirical benchmarks for early-grade reading in agglutinating African languages. South African Journal of Childhood Education 2020; 10(1):a773, 14 pages.

THOMAS R, PROBERT WJM, SAUTER R, MWENGE L, SINGH S, KANEMA S, VANQA N, HARPER A, BURGER R, CORI A, PICKLES M, MANDLA NF, YANG B, BWALYA J, PHIRI M, SHANAUBE K, FLOYD S, DONNELL D, BOCK PA, AYLES H, FIDLER S, HAYES R, FRASER C, HAUCK K, ET AL. Cost and cost-effectiveness of a universal HIV testing and treatment intervention in Zambia and South Africa: Evidence and projections from the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial. Lancet Global Health 2021; 9:e668-80.

VAN ZANDEN JL, BOLT J. Two concerns about the interpretation of the estimates. Journal of Global History 2021; 16(2):294-300.

VON FINTEL M. Chronic Child Poverty and Health Outcomes in South Africa using a Multidimensional Poverty Measure. Child Indicators Research 2021; 14:1571-1596.

WILLS G, MOHOHLWANE NL, ARDINGTON C, PRETORIUS E, MENENDEZ A. Benchmarking oral reading fluency in the early grades in Nguni languages. International Journal of Educational Development 2021; 84:102433, 19 pages.

WILLS G, VAN DER BERG S. Measuring school leadership and management and linkages with literacy: Evidence from rural and township primary schools in South Africa. Educational Management Administration and Leadership 2021; 49(5):708-731.

Journal Articles (NON-subsidised)

FELDKIRCHER M, HOFMARCHER P, SIKLOS PLS. What do central banks talk about? A European perspective on central bank communication. Focus on European Economic Integration 2021; Q2(1):61-81.

KIVIET JF, KRIPFGANZ S. Instrument approval by the Sargan test and its consequences for coefficient estimation. Economic Letters 2021; 205:109935, 5 pages.

UCTU R. Use of generic medicines in the Middle East: Knowledge, perceptions and experiences of the Sulaimani population, KRI, Iraq. Journal of Generic Medicines 2021; 17(4):206-213.

Chapters in Books

ADAMS-JACK UL. Life in the time of Covid-19: Four-and-half jobs, perpetual traumas and the small pleasure of not having to brave the cold winter mornings. In: EZEOBI OG, GOUWS A (eds.) Covid Diaries: Women's Experience of the Pandemic, Imbali Academic Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, 2021: 164-171.

BURGER R, NGWENYA MW. The Economics of Health in South Africa. In: Oqubay A, Tregenna F, Valodia I (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of The South African Economy, Oxford University Press, New York, USA, 2021: 844-869.

CLAASSENS LJM. "Her Lamp does not go out at Night" (Prov 31:18): Confessions of a Very Tired Superwoman. In: GOUWS A, EZEOBI OG (eds.) COVID Diaries: Women’s Experience of the Pandemic, Imbali Academic Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, 2021: 172-178.

COETZEE AA. Everything is Cake. In: GOUWS A, EZEOBI OG (eds.) Covid Diaries: Women's Experience of the Pandemic, Imbali Academic Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, 2021: 19-25.

CORNELISSEN-NORDIEN T. Covid-19: Working a 25-hour shift. In: GOUWS A, EZEOBI OG (eds.) Covid Diaries. Women’s Experiences of the Pandemic, Imbali Press, Cape Town, South Africa, 2021: 179-184.

DELIWE CN, MATHE J, POPHIWA N, TAYLOR SGS. Using evaluations to inform policy and practice in a government department: the case of the Department of Basic Education in South Africa. In: Goldman I, Pabari M (eds.) Using evidence in Policy and Practice, Lessons from Africa, Routledge, New York, United Kingdom, 2021: 75-91.

FOURIE J. A wealth of sources: The Cape Colony and its statistical riches. In: Mizui M, Osawa H, Yoshida M, Fushimi T (eds.) Shiryo ga kataru Higashi Indo Kouro Passages to the East India through Historical Sources: Migration and Contact Zones, Bensei Publisher, Tokyo, Japan, 2021: 111-121.

GOUWS A. Things we list in the pandemic. In: GOUWS A, EZEOBI OG (eds.) Covid Diaries: Women's Experience of the Pandemic, Imbali Academic Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, 2021: 3-11.

KRUGER L. Of Love and Violence: Snow White and the Seven Mirrors. In: EZEOBI OG, GOUWS A (eds.) COVID Diaries: Women’s Experience of the Pandemic, Imbali Academic Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, 2021: i-288.

MASHAZI SA. There was also Me. In: GOUWS A, EZEOBI OG (eds.) Covid Diaries: Women's Experience of the Pandemic, Imbali Academic Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, 2021: 114-121.

MNCUBE L, THERON NM. Competition Policy in South Africa. In: Oqubay A, Tregenna F, Valodia I (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of The South African Economy, Oxford University Press, New York, USA, 2021: 531-553.

ROODT V. The Near, the Far, and the In-between. In: GOUWS A, EZEOBI OG (eds.) Covid Diaries: Women's Experience of the Pandemic, Imbali academic publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, 2021: 59-65.

SALIE M. Mindful Multitasking or Mindless Mothering: A Working Mom's Struggle During a Global Pandemic . In: GOUWS A, EZEOBI OG (eds.) COVID Diaries: Women’s Experience of the Pandemic, Imbali Academic, Cape Town, South Africa, 2021: i-288.

SWART SS. Love in the Time of Corona: A Historian Lives through a Plague. In: GOUWS A, EZEOBI OG (eds.) COVID DIARIES: Women's Experience of the Pandemic, Imbali Academic Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, 2021: 50-57.

WATSON JA. Love and Loss in Lockdown. In: EZEOBI OG, GOUWS A (eds.) Covid Diaries: Women's Experience of the Pandemic, Imbali Academic Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa, 2021: 84-92.

Research Reports

FOURIE H, REID MB. The changing landscape of sustainable finance. 2021: 21 pp.

REID MB, SIKLOS PLS. The BER's Inflation Expectations Surveys: Findings from Academic Research. 2021: 23 pp.

REID MB, SIKLOS PLS. The BER's Inflation Expectations Surveys: Know your data. 2021: 26 pp.

Doctoral completed

GONDWE JR. Manifestations of inequality in three developing countries: An investigation of differential education and labour market outcomes. PhD, 2021. 158 pp.

HOFMEYR H. The Role of Non-cognitive Skills in Educational Production in South Africa. PhD, 2021. 169 pp.

HOMPASHE DM. Essays on accountability and service delivery in education and healthcare in South Africa. PhD, 2021. 280 pp.

LINKS C. The Economic impact of the Khoe on the North-Eastern frontier of the Cape Colony. PhD, 2021. 208 pp.

MUZATA TG. A critical examination of collusion, the pricing behaviour of a multi-product cartel and the cartel enforcement record in South Africa. PhD, 2021. 171 pp.

NYIKA FD. Early effects and legacies of Cape Colony Legislation on Black Disenfranchisement, Education and Migration. PhD, 2021. 159 pp.

VAN JAARSVELD R. The econometrics of discrete structural change and its applications in models of price overcharge. PhD, 2021. 173 pp.