Upcoming Events

Past events

December 2026

SALDRU-ERSA December Workshop - Mon, Dec 14 - Tue, Dec 15 2026

November 2026

The Roots of Poverty, Inequality, and Deprivation in Africa | 2026 Seasonal School - Mon, Nov 16 2026

October 2026

Annual Francis Wilson Memorial Lecture - Thu, Oct 15 2026

September 2026

Roundtable | Inequality, democracy and mobility  - Wed, Sep 16 2026

May 2026

Contractual Savings and Public Investment: Are our Retirement Funds Misallocated?” SALDRU Seminar - Wed, May 27 2026
Landlords and Tenants: Rentierism and Class Differentiation in an Informal Johannesburg Settlement” - Wed, May 20 2026
Poverty and distributional impacts of fiscal policy in Kenya: A CEQ assessment with extensions to gender and children - Wed, May 13 2026
Measuring child poverty disparities in Francophone and Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa and assessing the poverty-mental health nexus in the region - Wed, May 6 2026

April 2026

Fiscal Interventions and Welfare in Ghana: A CEQ Assessment using Ghana Living Standards Survey - Wed, Apr 15 2026
Resurgent Inequality and the Social Science Research Agenda - Tue, Apr 14 2026

March 2026

The impact of taxes and transfers on poverty and income distribution in South Africa - Wed, Mar 18 2026
Cultural (in)congruence and economic impacts: Evidence from a psychosocial intervention in Vietnam - Wed, Mar 11 2026
Household Preferences for Women’s Employment: A Field Experiment in Bangladesh - Wed, Mar 4 2026

February 2026

Beliefs, forecasts, and investments: Experimental evidence from India - Mon, Feb 9 2026
Data Collection versus Data Construction: How Methodology and Substance are Inextricably Interwoven - Wed, Feb 4 2026

January 2026

Savings incentives and men’s demand for transactional sex: experimental evidence from Kenya - Wed, Jan 28 2026

December 2025

Climate change, poverty reduction, and sustainable growth in Africa - Fri, Dec 12 2025
Francis Wilson Memorial Lecture 2025 - Wed, Dec 10 2025

November 2025

Making City Data Work for Research - Wed, Nov 19 2025
Irregular imputation and implausible households in the 2022 South African census - Wed, Nov 12 2025

October 2025

Household information in South Africa’s census and survey data - Wed, Oct 15 2025
A Mixed-methods Approach to the Analysis of Food Insecurity - Wed, Oct 1 2025

September 2025

Gender inequalities in sub-Saharan Africa - Wed, Sep 17 2025
Migration, inequality and social mobility in sub-Saharan Africa - Wed, Sep 3 2025

August 2025

The Long-Run Effects of Cash Transfers on Labour Market Outcomes - Wed, Aug 27 2025
Educational Choices: The Role of Risk and Returns - Mon, Aug 25 2025
Informality, unemployment and structural transformation after land dispossession - Wed, Aug 6 2025

July 2025

Unlocking Green Jobs through Local Renewable Energy Investment - Thu, Jul 31 2025

April 2025

SALDRU Seminar: The Power Asymmetry in Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Designs - Wed, Apr 9 2025
SALDRU Seminar: The Power Asymmetry in Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Designs - Wed, Apr 9 2025
Tackling inequality for sustainable growth and poverty reduction in Africa - Tue, Apr 1 2025

March 2025

SALDRU Seminar: Surviving in the dark: the mortality effects of reducing rolling blackouts - Wed, Mar 26 2025
SALDRU Seminar: The Political Economy of the 2025 Budget - Wed, Mar 19 2025
SALDRU Brown-bag Seminar - Wed, Mar 12 2025

February 2025

SALDRU Seminar: Unequal Democracy in Local Politics: The Cases of South Africa and Brazil - Wed, Feb 26 2025
SALDRU Seminar: The More Things Change: Race, Segregation and Land Redistribution in Post-Apartheid South Africa - Wed, Feb 19 2025
The Shadow Economy and Extortion in South Africa: ALI SA Policy Dialogue - Tue, Feb 11 2025

May 2024

Discrimination and horizontal inequalities in the South African labour market - Wed, May 22 2024

April 2024

Francis Wilson Memorial Lecture - Tue, Apr 16 2024