2023

 Research Report : 2023

Journal Articles (subsidised)

ABEL I, SIKLOS P. Macroeconomics Risks and Monetary Policy in Central European Countries: Parallels in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. Risks 2023; 11:1-26.

BAKX P, BOM J, VAN DOORSLAER EKA, GORTZ M, SKINNER J. What explains different rates of nursing home admissions? Comparing the United States to "Denmark and the Netherlands. Journal of the Economics of Ageing 2023; 25:1-8.

BAR M, KERBY EM, WOUTERSE B, GEISLER J. Has COVID-19 increased inequality in mortality by income in the Netherlands?. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2023; 78(2):244-251.

BOHL MT, KANELIS D, SIKLOS P. Central bank mandates: How differences can influence the content and tone of central bank communication. Journal of International Money and Finance 2023; 130:1-18.

BOOYSEN MJ, VAN DER BERG S, VAN DER WALT PW. Some real but mostly unconsidered costs hiding in the dark corners of load shedding. South African Journal of Science 2023; 119(9/10):16596. 4 pages.

BOTHA B, BURGER RP, KOTZE K, RANKIN N, STEENKAMP DJ. Big data forecasting of South African inflation. Empirical economics 2023; 65:149-188.

BURGER R, GANGAIDZO T, SCHUTTE AE, VON FINTEL M. Stressful life events, neighborhood characteristics, and systolic blood pressure in South Africa. JOURNAL OF HUMAN HYPERTENSION 2023; 37:405-411.

BURGER R, MCHENGA M, VON FINTEL DP. 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. PLoS One 2023; 18(7):1-9.

BURGER R, MKUPETE MJ, VON FINTEL DP. Decomposing inequality of opportunity in child health in Tanzania: The role of access to water and sanitation. Health Economics 2022; 31:2465-2480.

CHEN H, SIKLOS P. Currency substitution in a world of looming retail CBDCs: Suggestive currency substitution-based evidence. Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money 2023; 88:1-19.

CHEN H, SIKLOS P. Oceans Apart? China and Other Systemically Important Economies. EMERGING MARKETS FINANCE AND TRADE 2023; 59(5):1349-1371.

CILLIERS J, GREEN EO, ROSS RJ. Did it pay to be a pioneer? Wealth accumulation in a newly settled frontier society. Economic History Review 2023; 76(1):257-282.

CILLIERS J, MARTINS I, FOURIE J. Legacies of loss: The health outcomes of slaveholder compensation in the British Cape Colony. Explorations in Economic History 2023; 89:1-38.

DAVIDS A, DU RAND GP, GEORG C, KOZIOL T V, SCHASFOORT J. Social learning in a network model of Covid-19. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 2023; 213:271-304.

DE VILLIERS DJ, DE VILLIERS A. A Comparative Review of Education Policy in Brazil and South Africa: Divergent Trends in Inequality. Athens Journal of Education 2023; 10(2):323-344.

FOUOTSA MANFOUO NC, VON FINTEL DP. Investigating the effects of drought and lockdowns on smallholder and commercial agricultural production in KwaZulu-Natal using remotely sensed data. Heliyon 2022; 8:1-13.

FOURIE J, BATEN J, MARAVALL L. Leader selection and why it matters: Education and the endogeneity of favouritism in 11 African countries. Review of development economics 2023; 27:1562-1604.

FOURIE J, GARMON JNR F. The settlers' fortunes: Comparing tax censuses in the Cape Colony and early American republic. Economic History Review 2023; 76:525-550.

FOURIE J, GREYLING JC. Slave labor productivity and wine output: Stellenbosch, 1680-1828. Journal of Wine Economics 2023; 18:191-204.

FOURIE J, GREYLING JC. Wheat productivity in the Cape Colony in 1825: evidence from newly transcribed tax censuses. Agrekon 2023; 62(1):98-115.

FREYTAG A, DORFFEL C. The poverty effect of democratization. World Development 2023; 165:1-31.

GARCIA BARRAGAN F, LIU G. A new approach to capital control for emerging market economies. North American Journal of Economics and Finance 2022; 61(101696):1-18.

GUSTAFSSON MA, BARAKAT B. Marginalized learners in international and regional test data: The extent of floor effects. Comparative Education Review 2023; 67(3):509-533.

KIVIET JF. Instrument-free inference under confined regressor endogeneity and mild regularity. Econometrics and Statistics 2023; 25:1-22.

KOSAKOWSKA-BEREZECKA N, BOSSON JK, JUREK P, BESTA T, OLECH M, VANDELLO JA, SHEPHERD DL, ET AL ET. Gendered Self-Views Across 62 Countries: A Test of Competing Models. Social Psychological and Personality Science 2023; 14(7):1-17.

KOTZÉ EM, SMIT L. Bearded men singing psalms The Work of DRC Ministers as Support Services during the South African War (1899-1902). Historia 2023; 68(2):61-95.

LEACH GMM, VON FINTEL DP. Stunting, double orphanhood and unequal access to public services in democratic South Africa. Economics and Human Biology 2022; 44:1-15.

MOSES EG, VAN DER BERG S. Evaluating the demand, supply and impact of early childhood development programmes in South Africa. Development Southern Africa 2023; 40(6):1-21.

MOSES EG. Long and short-distance internal migration motivations in post-apartheid Namibia: a gravity model approach. Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics 2022; 46(1):23-42.

MWALE ML, SMITH AM, VON FINTEL DP. Child nutrition and farm input subsidies: The complementary role of early healthcare and nutrition programs in Malawi. Food policy 2022; 113:1-12.

NANZIRI LE, MWALE ML. Remittances, crowd-in effect, and household welfare. Scientific African 2023; 19:e01521, 11 pages.

NYIKA FD, SHEPHERD DL. Impact of Migration on Non-Migrant School Completion Rates and Enrolment in South Africa. African Human Mobility Review (AHMR) 2023; 9(1):10-32.

PAHA J. Sustainability Agreements and first mover disadvantages. Journal of Competition Law and Economics 2023; 19(3):357-366.

PIEK M, VON FINTEL DP, KIRSTEN JF. The impact of agricultural minimum wages on worker flows in South Africa. South African Journal of Economics 2023; 91(4):446-465.

SIKLOS P. Monetary policy and macroeconomic factors: Japan versus the US and the euro area. Asia and the Global Economy 2023; 3:1-12.

VLOK L, ROSSOUW L, HENNING F. Modification of the ALSFRS-R for Utilization in Individuals Not Using Noninvasive Ventilation. Respiratory Care 2022; 67:553-561.

Journal Articles (NON-subsidised)

BAR M, VAN DOORSLAER EKA, WOUTERSE B, GEISLER J. Has COVID-19 increased inequality in mortality by income in the Netherlands?. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2023; 77(4):244-251.

DU PLESSIS DE, BOLUS BM, VAN DER MERWE A. Retroperitoneal laparoscopic-assisted renal auto transplant with bench surgery for renal cell carcinoma in a single kidney: a first for Africa. African Urology 2023; 3:82-84.

SMITH AM, LEACH GMM, ROSSOUW L. 'Must of us go late': The crisis of late antenatal care access for adolescent pregnancies in the Cape Town Metropole, South Africa. African Journal of Primary Health Care and Family Medicine 2023; 15(1):a4192, 10 pages.

Books

GARDNER L. Sovereignty without Power. Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom 2023:282 pp.

IQANI M, SHEPHERD DL, CAMMINGA BC, LUBINSKY N, FALKOF N, NDLOVU T, SMIT A. Consuming Happiness: Aspirational Practices in Global Perspective London. Routledge, LONDON, United Kingdom 2023:113 pp.

Chapters in Books

BURGER RP, JAFTA RCC, VON FINTEL DP. The Effectiveness of Affirmative Action Policies in South Africa. In: Deshpande A (ed.) Handbook on Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action, Springer Nature, Singapore, Singapore, 2023: 797-819.

CHALMERS BI, FOURIE J, INWOOD K. Race Reclassification in Cape Town, 1950-84. In: FOURIE J (ed.) Quantitative History and Uncharted People, Bloomsbury Academic, London, United Kingdom, 2023: 117-138.

DE VILLIERS AP. Perspective Chapter: The Role NSFAS has Played to Facilitate Poor Students in South Africa. In: Waller L, Waller S (eds.) Higher Education - Reflections From the Field - Volume 2, IntechOpen, London, United Kingdom, 2023: 41-64.

DIMITRUK KA, LEMON K. Petitions to the Cape Parliament, 1854-1909. In: FOURIE J (ed.) Quantitative History and Uncharted People, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, United Kingdom, 2023: 285-316.

EKAMA KJ, RAAIJMAKERS W. Advertising the enslaved for sale: A quantitative approach to the Zuid-Afrikaan, 1830-40. In: FOURIE J (ed.) Quantitative History and Uncharted People, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, United Kingdom, 2023: 139-169.

FOURIE J, JAYES JA. Death during the influenza of 1918. In: FOURIE J (ed.) Quantitative History and Uncharted People, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, United Kingdom, 2023: 317-352.

FOURIE J, MARCO GRACIA FJ. Sex ratios and girl preference in the Cape, 1894-2011. In: FOURIE J (ed.) Quantitative History and Uncharted People, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, United Kingdom, 2023: 63-91.

FOURIE J. Quantitative History and Uncharted People. In: FOURIE J (ed.) Quantitative History and Uncharted People, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, United Kingdom, 2023: 1-32.

FOURIE J. Quantitative history in practice. In: FOURIE J (ed.) Quantitative History and Uncharted People, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, United Kingdom, 2023: 353-362.

GUSTAFSSON MA, TAYLOR SGS. Explaining Improved Learning Outcomes in South African Primary Schools. In: Combrinck C, Van Staden S (eds.) Tracking Changes in South African Reading Literacy Achievement, BRILL, Leiden, Netherlands, 2023: 36-65.

LINKS C. Khoe households in Swellendam, 1825. In: FOURIE J (ed.) Quantitative History and Uncharted People, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, United Kingdom, 2023: 91-117.

MAPHOSA LM, KERBY EM. Female Investors at the Cape, 1892-1902. In: FOURIE J (ed.) Quantitative History and Uncharted People, Bloomsbury Academic, London, United Kingdom, 2023: 195-218.

MOSES EG, WOOLARD ID. The role of temporary social grants in mitigating the poverty impact of COVID-19 in South Africa. In: FOURIE PP, LAMB GG (eds.) The South Africa Response to COVID-19: The Early Years, Routledge, London, United Kingdom, 2023: 156-177.

SCHOOTS LJ. Political innovation in African Nationalist Organisations, 1880-90. In: FOURIE J (ed.) Quantitative History and Uncharted People, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, United Kingdom, 2023: 249-284.

Research Reports

FOURIE H, BOLTMAN L, SLABBER GM. The economic impact of the University of the Free State on Mangaung. 2023: 72 pp.

FOURIE H, ROSSOUW L, BOLTMAN L. Could fibre access improve economic outcomes for low and middle-income households in South Africa?. 2023: 28 pp.

FREYTAG A, GRISWOLD D. Balance of Trade, Balance of Power. How the Trade Deficit Reflects U.S. Influence in the World. 2023: 16 pp.

ODENDAAL NJ. BER Data Spotlight: Census 2022: Population, Housing, Service delivery & Education. 2023: 35 pp.

RIETVELD M, PIENAAR H. Central bank comment: Proposals to change SARB mandate should be roundly dismissed. 2023: 5 pp.

VAN LILL DJ, HAROLD RM, BOLD S, LEMBOE CJ. Modelling fixed investment and its impact on growth, poverty, inequality and unemployment. 2023: 40 pp.

Doctoral completed

CHARI A. Access to healthcare services in resource-constrained environments: Evidence from Zimbabwe. PhD, 2023. 192 pp. Promotor: BURGER R. Medepromotor: VON FINTEL DP.

DEGHAYE N. Measuring enrolment and support for children with disabilities at the school level. PhD, 2023. 189 pp. Promotor: VAN DER BERG S.

LILENSTEIN AK. Education Access, Quality, and Equity in a Developing Country Context. PhD, 2023. 184 pp. Promotor: VAN DER BERG S, SPAULL NA.

RICH KT. Socioeconomic status, economic insecurity and the obesity transition in South Africa: generational and life course aspects. PhD, 2023. 229 pp. Promotor: VON FINTEL DP.

WALKER EE. Using Apple Product Prices to Evaluate the Law of One Price and Product Derived Real Exchange Rates. PhD, 2023. 169 pp. Promotor: VAN LILL DJ. Medepromotor: HOLLANDER H, DU RAND GP.