Working papers (selected)

The labour market effects of cash transfers to the unemployed: Evidence from South Africa (with Haroon Bhorat)
2024
Development Policy Research Unit Working Paper 202405. DPRU, University of Cape Town.

Watts happening to work? The labour market effects of South Africa’s electricity crisis (with Haroon Bhorat)
2024
Southern Africa - Towards Inclusive Economic Development (SA-TIED) Working Paper 227 / WIDER Working Paper 2024/20. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER

Wages and wage inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa (with Haroon Bhorat)
2023
Development Policy Research Unit Working Paper 202308. DPRU, University of Cape Town

The effect of wage subsidies on job retention in a developing country: Evidence from South Africa (with Haroon Bhorat and Robert Hill)
2023
WIDER Working Paper 2023/114. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER

Can Cash Transfers to the Unemployed Support Economic Activity? Evidence from South Africa (with Haroon Bhorat and David de Villiers)
2023
Agence Française de Développement Research Paper No. 278

What we know about COVID-19 and the South African labor market
2023
Research on Socio-Economic Policy (RESEP) Covid Generation Research Note. RESEP, Stellenbosch University

Who are the Robots Coming For? The Evolving Task Content of Employment in South Africa (with Haroon Bhorat, Robert Hill, Jabulile Monnakgotla, and Francois Steenkamp)
2023
SARChI Industrial Development Working Paper Series WP 2023-06. SARChI Industrial Development, University of Johannesburg

Targeted Health Warnings Amidst Extreme Inequality: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design in South Africa (with Daryn Conyngham, Ronelle Burger, and Cobus Burger)
2022

Expansion and Diversification in the MER Sector: Results from an Enterprise Survey (with Caitlin Allen Whitehead, Haroon Bhorat, Robert Hill, and Francois Steenkamp)
2022
Development Policy Research Unit Working Paper 202203. DPRU, University of Cape Town

The distribution and dynamics of South Africa’s TERS policy: Results from NIDS-CRAM Waves 1 to 5 (with Robert Hill)
2021
National Income Dynamics Study - Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS-CRAM) Wave 5 Policy Paper

COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in South Africa: Results from NIDS-CRAM Wave 4 (with Ronelle Burger, Alison Buttenheim, René English, Brendan Maughan-Brown, and Michele Tameris)
2021
National Income Dynamics Study - Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS-CRAM) Wave 4 Policy Paper