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  • Accents, Race and Discrimination: Evidence from a Trust Game 
    Yagman, Ece; Keswell, Malcolm (2015-10)
    We investigate discrimination according to accent and race on trust behaviour. Proposers were randomly paired with responders of the same/different race, and asked to play the trust game after looking at a photograph and ...
  • Educational inheritance and the distribution of occupations: Evidence from South Africa 
    Keswell, Malcolm; Girdwood, Sarah; Leibbrandt, Murray (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2011)
    We analyse the role of educational opportunity in shaping inequality in the distribution of occupations in the long-run. We start by modelling the probability that a child occupies the same or a different rung on the ...
  • Educational inheritance and the distribution of occupations: Evidence from South Africa 
    Keswell, Malcolm; Girdwood, Sarah; Leibbrandt, Murray (Review of Income and Wealth, 2013)
    We analyze the role of educational opportunity in shaping inequality in the distribution of occupations in the long run. We use the timing of political events in the history of the struggle to end Apartheid to devise an ...
  • Ethnolinguistic Diversity and the Provision of Public Goods: Experimental Evidence from South Africa 
    Burns, Justine; Keswell, Malcolm (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2011)
    This paper utilises techniques in experimental economics to investigate the impact of racial identity on the provision of public goods. A large sample of Black and White undergraduate University students were recruited to ...
  • Evaluating the Impact of Health Programmes 
    Burns, Justine; Keswell, Malcolm; Thornton, Rebecca (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2009-10)
    This paper has two broad objectives. The first objective is broadly methodological and deals with some of the more pertinent estimation issues one should be aware of when studying the impact of health status on economic ...
  • Evaluating the impact of health programmes on productivity 
    Keswell, Malcolm; Burns, Justine; Thornton, Rebecca (African Development Review, 2013)
    This article reviews some of the key methodological approaches available to researchers interested in identifying a causal relationship between health interventions and economic indicators of productivity. We then discuss ...
  • Gender and Risk Taking in the Classroom 
    Burns, Justine; Halliday, Simon; Keswell, Malcolm (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2012)
    We examine whether differences in risk preferences explain gender differentials in test scores amongst a large class of undergraduate microeconomics students, where students were evaluated using multiple choice questions. ...
  • Identfying Pure-Income Effects in an Empirical Model of Labour Supply: the case of the South African Social Pension 
    Eyal, Katherine; Keswell, Malcolm (2008-01)
    This paper investigates the income effects of the South African Social Pension. Using data from three waves of the the Labour Force Survey, we find that there appears to be a significant negative association between labour ...
  • The impact of health on poverty: Evidence from the South African integrated family survey 
    Godlonton, Susan; Keswell, Malcolm (CSSR and SALDRU, 2004-10)
    This paper examines the impact of health status on poverty status, accounting for the endogeneity of health status. Using exogenous measures of health status from the South African Integrated Health Survey, we instrument ...
  • Inheriting the Future: Intergenerational Persistence of Educational status in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 
    Burns, Justine; Keswell, Malcolm (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2011)
    This paper examines the changes in the educational attainment of three successive generations in South Africa: grandparents, parents and children. Many of the results accord with widely known facts, such as the educational ...
  • Intra-Household Decision-Making and Resource Allocation, Social Networks and Social Cohesion 
    Burns, Justine; Keswell, Malcolm (2006-12)
    The household is central to most policy initiatives aimed at reducing poverty, since it has long been thought that this is the most efficient way to transfer income and other resources towards those in need. Indeed, the ...
  • Pareto efficient intrahousehold allocations and land rights: evidence from South Africa 
    Fitzhenry, Nicholas; Keswell, Malcolm (2021-12)
    We study whether South African farm households participating in a land reform program make Pareto efficient intrahousehold consumption decisions. Using evaluation survey data of beneficiary households participating in South ...
  • Shocks, Assets and Credit 
    Keswell, Malcolm; Burns, Justine (2006-12)
    Well functioning credit and insurance markets, in many respects, obviates the need for public policy that is oriented at providing support to households when they face economic hardship. But when the market for cheap ...

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