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Separate but Equal Democratization?Many commentators have noted the existence of a historical correlation between cities and democratization. This image of the city as an inherently civic space is linked to the notion that the spatial concentration intrinsic to urban contexts promotes...
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Significance of Public Space in the Fragmented CityThis article surveys the problem of urban marginalization by one of its more critical expressions in the contemporary city: the slums. The aim is to define an urban design strategy for the integration of those settlements as part of the city context...
Journal Article
Participation of charity beneficiariesAnecdotal evidence suggests that involving beneficiaries in charity decision-making ensures better governance processes. This study provides the first experimental test of the effects of beneficiaries’ participation in the decision of how to spend a...
Working Paper
Cooperation and leadership in a segregated communityThe paper presents the results of a lab-in-the-field experiment in three South African townships located in the suburbs of Cape Town. The experimental design consists of a set of decisions on how the members of a naturally occurring group allocate an...
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Institutionalizing segregationSome claim that certain forms of social protection, conditional cash transfers in particular, result in perverse incentives for recipients in order to stay eligible for receiving benefits. This notion has a bearing on the design of social protection...
Journal Article
Institutionalizing SegregationPart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Book Chapter
Separate but Equal Democratization?Part of Book Latin American Urban Development into the 21st Century
Journal Article
Is there a spatial mismatch in South Africa’s metropolitan labour market?This paper investigates evidence of a possible spatial mismatch in South Africa’s metropolitan labour market that could contribute towards explaining why black unemployment rates are significantly higher than white unemployment rates. The spatial...
Book Chapter
Growth, Capital Accumulation, and Economic Reform in South AfricaPart of Book Resource Abundance and Economic Development
Journal Article
Participatory incentivesTHIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | We design a lab-in-the-field experiment involving naturally occurring groups operating in three South-African townships. We introduce an incentives-based mechanism named 'participatory incentives' consisting of...
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