Policy Brief

• Poverty
• Inequality
• Survey data

Working Paper

A substantial amount of research has been conducted examining inequality in South Africa using multiple data sources. We provide an overview of this research in this paper. Furthermore, we use nationally representative survey data to estimate income...

• Income distribution
• Inequality
• Survey

Blog

In the paper 'Aid reimagined: results from an elite survey on perceptions of progress, capacity, and development co-operation', we tabulated responses...

• Elites
• development cooperation
• Foreign aid

Working Paper

Drawing from two labour market experiments in rural India, we offer insights on the influence of survey design on the measurement of employment. The first experiment contrasts self-reported estimates of employment with proxy-reported estimates from...

• Survey
• Gender
• Labour force participation

Blog

In Mozambique, analysing how and why food prices change is crucial. Understanding the dynamics of price formation is fundamental to mitigate the...

• Food price
• Economic surveys
• Survey data

Working Paper

We study how the stringency of policy measures to counter the COVID-19 pandemic affects individuals’ trust in formal institutions. Drawing on micro-level panel data from Germany spanning an 18-month period from the onset of the pandemic, we show that...

• COVID-19
• Pandemic
• Crisis

Technical Note

This note sets out two different methods on how to adjust incomes in the microdata underlying the standard SOUTHMOD models to reflect a sudden shock, in this case the COVID-19 shock, as done in the accompanying working paper by Lastunen et al. (2021)...

• Imputation
• Income
• Survey data

Working Paper

This paper investigates the validity of household survey data published by Statistics South Africa since 1993 and later integrated into the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series (PALMS).A series of statistical adjustments are proposed, compared, and...

• Income inequality
• Heterogeneity
• Survey data

Working Paper

The paucity of reliable, timely household consumption data in many low- and middle-income countries has made it difficult to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Standard poverty measurement requires collecting...

• Household survey
• Ethiopia
• Survey data

Report

This survey is a collaborative project conducted by researchers of the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) and the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of...

• COVID-19
• Survey data
• Employment

Working Paper

Overall income inequality in South Africa is very high, and inequality generated in the labour market is a key driver of inequality.In this paper, I use the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series, the General Household Surveys, and administrative tax...

• Inequality
• Earnings
• Tax data

Research Brief

Much work has been done on inequality in South Africa, but to date the literature that assesses the dynamic response of income or wealth distribution to economic policy actions is almost non-existent. This information gap is caused by data...

• Income inequality
• Heterogeneity
• Survey data

Working Paper

The contact hypothesis posits that having diverse neighbours may reduce one’s intergroup prejudice. This hypothesis is difficult to test as individuals self-select into neighbourhoods. Using a slum relocation programme in India that randomly assigned...

• Caste
• Slums
• India

Working Paper

The global spread of COVID-19 is one of the largest threats to people and governments since the Second World War. The on-going pandemic and its countermeasures have led to varying physical, psychological, and emotional experiences, shaping not just...

• COVID-19
• Pandemic
• Survey data

Book Chapter

Part of Book Inequality in the Developing World

• Economic development
• Equality
• Middle-income countries

Book Chapter

Part of Book Inequality in the Developing World

• Earnings
• Personal income tax
• Survey data