Working papers

The effects of rural electrification on employment: New evidence from South Africa (Resubmitted. This version is from March 2009. An updated December 2009 version is available on request.)

Evidence on the impact of minimum wage laws in an informal sector: Domestic workers in South Africa (with Vimal Ranchhod) (Submitted February 2010; draft available on request)

The long-term effects of being born in a drought: Evidence from the Cape Area Panel Study 2002-2006, October 2009 (in revision)

A model for understanding gender discrepancies in sexual behavior reports, January 2009 (with David Lam, in revision)

Work in progress

Cellphones in Malawi (with Emily Oster and Rebecca Thornton)

Infrastructure, migration and crowding (with Sam Schulhofer-Wohl)

Investing in (secondary) schooling in Chile (with Claudia Martinez-A)

Refereed Publications

Linking Poverty and Income Shocks to Risky Sexual Behavior: Evidence from a Panel Study of Young Adults in Cape Town (with David Lam and Murray Leibbrandt) South African Journal of Economics, 76 (S1): 53-74. 2008

How household context affects search outcomes of the unemployed in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A panel data analysis, South African Journal of Economics, September 72(3) 2004

Individual, household and regional determinants of labour force attachment in South Africa: Evidence from the 1997 October Household Survey, South African Journal of Economics, June 70(5) 2002 (with Farah Pirouz)

Other Publications

Rethinking Infrastructure for Development by François Bourguignon and Boris Pleskovic, Book Review, Journal of Economic Literature, December 2008

Household and community income, economic shocks and risky sexual behavior of young adults: Evidence from the Cape Area Panel Study 2002 and 2005 (with David Lam and Murray Leibbrandt), AIDS, 2007 vol. 21, Supplement 7: S49-S56