Research

Working Papers

• The Informality Trade-Off: Wages and Rural-Urban Migration in South Africa
  • Job Market Paper
• Assessing Urban Policies Using a Simulation Model with Formal and Informal Housing (joint with Paolo Avner, Basile Pfeiffer, Claus Rabe, Harris Selod, and Vincent Viguié)
  • Resubmitted at the Journal of Urban Economics
• Can the Urban Poor Avoid Flood Risks? The Case of Cape Town, South Africa (joint with Paolo Avner, Charlotte Liotta, Basile Pfeiffer, Claus Rabe, Harris Selod, and Vincent Viguié)
  • Online documentation developed for the City of Cape Town (within the South African Cities Support Programme) as a paper companion