Working Papers - 2013

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Treating schools to a new administration. The impact of South Africa’s 2005 provincial boundary changes on school performance
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP28/2013
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Compulsory tutorial programmes and performance in undergraduate microeconomics: A regression discontinuity design
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP27/2013
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Abstract | PDF (505 KB)
 
Hunger in the former apartheid homelands: Determinants of converging food security 100 years after the 1913 Land Act
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP26/2013
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Abstract | PDF (752 KB)
 
Enhancing the credibility of fiscal forecasts in South Africa: Is a fiscal council the only way?
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP25/2013
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Abstract | PDF (237 KB)
 
The accuracy of fiscal projections in South Africa
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP24/2013
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Abstract | PDF (302 KB)
 
Comparing the BER’s forecasts
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP23/2013
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Abstract | PDF (271 KB)
 
A sticky information Phillips curve for South Africa
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP22/2013
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Abstract | PDF (601 KB)
 
Estimating the impact of language of instruction in South African primary schools: A fixed effects approach
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP21/2013
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Abstract | PDF (475 KB)
 
A question of efficiency: decomposing South African reading test scores using PIRLS 2006
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP20/2013
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Abstract | PDF (431 KB)
 
The impact of tax incentives to stimulate investment in South Africa
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP19/2013
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Abstract | PDF (409 KB)
 
Estimating the benefits of linking ties in a deeply divided society: considering the relationship between domestic workers and their employers in South Africa
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP18/2013
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Abstract | PDF (121 KB)
 
South African Sector Return Correlations: using DCC and ADCC Multivariate GARCH techniques to uncover the underlying dynamics.
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP17/2013
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Abstract | PDF (1.7 MB)
 
The equity price channel in a New-Keynesian DSGE model with financial frictions and banking
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP16/2013 (revised, version: 2)
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Abstract | PDF (363 KB)
 
Measuring the option value of education
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP15/2013
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Abstract | PDF (286 KB)
 
The transmission of longevity across generations: The case of the settler Cape Colony
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP14/2013
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Abstract | PDF (473 KB)
 
Vroeë Kaapse en Europese huwelikspatrone
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP13/2013
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Abstract | PDF (522 KB)
 
Should inflation targeting be abandoned in favour of nominal income targeting?
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP12/2013
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Abstract | PDF (182 KB)
 
The first five years project – a cohort study of students awarded NSFAS loans in the first five years 2000-2004
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP11/2013
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Abstract | PDF (1.7 MB)
 
Why define markets in competition cases?
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP10/2013
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Abstract | PDF (150 KB)
 
The democratisation of innovation: Managing technological innovation as if people matter
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP09/2013
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Abstract | PDF (579 KB)
 
Life chances and class: Estimating inequality of opportunity in South Africa for various life stages
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP08/2013
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Abstract | PDF (245 KB)
 
Fiscal sustainability in South Africa: Will history repeat itself?
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP07/2013
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Abstract | PDF (366 KB)
 
Literacy at South African Mission Stations
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP06/2013
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Abstract | PDF (793 KB)
 
Poverty and inequality estimates of National Income Dynamics Study revisited
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP05/2013
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Youth unemployment in South Africa since 2000 revisited
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP04/2013
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Abstract | PDF (168 KB)
 
Some factors influencing the comparability and reliability of poverty estimates across household surveys
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP03/2013
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Abstract | PDF (711 KB)
 
An overview of salient factors, relationships and values to support integrated energy-economic systems dynamic modelling
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP02/2013
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Abstract | PDF (257 KB)
 
The effects of rapidly expanding primary school access on effective learning: The case of Southern and Eastern Africa since 2000
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP01/2013
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Abstract | PDF (1.3 MB)

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