Publications

Social Distress and (Some) Relief: Estimating the impact of pandemic job loss on poverty in South Africa with Ihsaan Bassier and Maya Goldman
International Journal of Microsimulation, 2025 (Vol. 18, Issue 1)
[Published, Open Access | Code and datasets coming soon]

The labour market and poverty impacts of covid-19 in South Africa with Ihsaan Bassier, Rocco Zizzamia, and Ronak Jain
South African Journal of Economics, 2023 (Vol. 91, Issue 4)
[Published, Open Access]
[Wave 1 working paper | Code | Op-Ed]
[Wave 2 working paper | Code | Op-Ed]
[Wave 3 working paper | Code | Op-Ed]
Media: The Economist, Mail & Guardian

Locked down and locked out: Repurposing social assistance as emergency relief to informal workers with Ihsaan Bassier, Rocco Zizzamia, Murray Leibbrandt and Vimal Ranchhod
World Development, 2021 (Vol. 139)
[Published | Paper | Replication package | Op-Ed]

Urban “slums” and social mobility with Ivan Turok and Justin Visagie
Development Policy Review, 2018 (Vol. 36, Issue 3)
[Published | Paper]