Publications

Journal articles

The labour market effects of cash transfers to the unemployed: Evidence from South Africa (with Haroon Bhorat)
Forthcoming in World Development

Watts happening to work? The labour market effects of South Africa’s electricity crisis (with Haroon Bhorat)
R&R at Energy Economics

The effects of behaviorally informed messages on COVID-19 vaccination intentions and behavior: Evidence from randomized survey experiments in South Africa (with Alison Buttenheim, Katherine Eyal, and Brendan Maughan-Brown)
Journal of Health Communication, 2024 (Vol. 29, Issue 10)

Correlates of COVID-19 vaccination intentions and opinions about mandates among four groups of adults in South Africa with distinct vaccine intentions: evidence from a large national survey (with Katherine Eyal, Lindokuhle Njozela, Kim Ingle, Timothy Brophy, Alison Buttenheim, and Brendan Maughan‐Brown)
BMC Public Health, 2023 (Vol. 23, Issue 1767)

Lockdown stringency and employment formality: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa (with Haroon Bhorat, Robert Hill, and Ben Stanwix)
Journal for Labour Market Research, 2023 (Vol. 57, Issue 3)

Wage subsidies and COVID-19: The distribution and dynamics of South Africa`s TERS policy (with Robert Hill)
Development Southern Africa, 2022 (Vol. 39, Issue 5)

Longitudinal changes in COVID-19 vaccination intent among South African adults: evidence from the NIDS-CRAM panel survey, February to May 2021 (with Ronelle Burger, Aleksandra Golos, Alison Buttenheim, René English, Michele Tameris, and Brendan Maughan-Brown)
BMC Public Health, 2022 (Vol. 22, Issue 422)

Class size and learner outcomes in South African schools: The role of school socioeconomic status
Development Southern Africa, 2022 (Vol. 39, Issue 2)

Trends in COVID-19 public health intervention adherence and vaccine hesitancy in South Africa: 2020-2021 (with René English and Carmen Christian)
South African Health Review, 2021

Book chapters

Wage subsidies and job retention in a developing country: Evidence from South Africa (with Haroon Bhorat and Robert Hill)
Forthcoming in Jouste, M., Kanbur, R., Pirttilä, J. and Rattenhuber, P. (eds) ‘Poor Protection: The role of taxes and social benefits in the developing world during crises’
United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research and Oxford University Press

Automation and deindustrialisation in the South African manufacturing sector (with Caitlin Allen Whitehead, Haroon Bhorat, Robert Hill, and Francois Steenkamp)
Forthcoming in (book title forthcoming)
Columbia University Press

The Short-Term Labor Market Effects of South Africa`s National COVID-19 Lockdown (with Haroon Bhorat, Robert Hill, and Ben Stanwix)
In Qobo, M., Soko, M., Xenia Ngwenya, N. (eds) ‘The Future of the South African Political Economy Post-COVID 19’
Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.