CURRICULUM VITAE MURRAY V. LEIBBRANDT

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Notre Dame Ph.D Dec 1993 Notre Dame MA 1986 Rhodes University B.Soc.Sc. (Hons: Economics) I 1983 Rhodes University B.Soc.Sc. I in three majors 1982

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Academic Appointments Yale University Visiting Professor 2012, 2018-2019 University of Cape Town Pro Vice-Chancellor, Poverty and Inequality 2013 - 2018 University of Cape Town NRF/DST Research Chair in Poverty and Inequality Research 2008- University of Michigan Visiting Professor 2003, 2019 Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit Director 2001 - University of Cape Town Senior Lecturer/Assoc Prof/Professor 1994/1998/2000- University of Cape Town Director, School of Economics 1999-2002 Cornell University Visiting Fellow 1998 Rhodes University Senior Lecturer 1993-1994 University of Notre Dame Teaching Assistant 1990-1991 Rhodes University Lecturer 1986-1993

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Expert Group on a Basic Income Grant 2021 DHET Ministerial Task Team to Review Student Funding 2021 Co-Chair, the T20 Taskforce on Social Cohesion for the G20 2021 Co-Chair, IUSSP Scientific Panel On Population, Poverty and Inequality 2018 - Executive Committee of the International Economic Association 2017 - World Fellow, World Wealth and Income Database (WID) 2017 - Editorial Board, Development Southern Africa 2017 - Non-resident Senior Research Fellow, WIDER 2016 - Executive Committee, Human Development Capabilities Association 2017-2018 Member, Deputy President’s Advisory Panel on the National Minimum Wage 2016-2017 Chair of the Academy of Science of South Africa’s Standing Committee on Science for the Reduction of Poverty and Inequality 2014 - 2018 Executive Committee, Mandela Initiative: Dialogue and action to overcome poverty and inequality 2013 - 2018 IZA Research Fellow 2012 - Associate Editor, IZA Journal of Labor and Development 2012 – Board Member, National Research Foundation 2011 - 2017 National Research Foundation Ratings Panel For Economics, Management, Administration and Accounting 2011 - 2013

1 Senior editor, the PopPov Research Network’s Population and Economic Development Working Paper Series. Centre for Global Development. 2010 - Steering Committee, African Economic Research Consortium’s Research Programme on Health, Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Africa 2008-2012 President South African Economic Society 2007-2010 International Scientific Committee, Council for Research on Poverty (CROP) 2007 - 2008 Steering Committee, Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) 2006 - 2010 President, African Econometric Society 2006-2007 Member, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) International Panel on ‘Population Growth and Human Welfare in Africa’ 2007 - 2009 Member, International Panel Evaluating World Bank Research, 1998- 2005. (One of team reviewing poverty and inequality research) 2005/2006 Member, IUSSP, International Panel on ‘Population and Poverty’ 2003-2005 Convenor of the National Research Foundation Ratings Panel For Economics, Agricultural Economics and Development Studies 2002, 2006 Director of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit. 2002- Member of the Academic Board for the African Economics Research Consortium PhD Programme 2002-2003 Council Member of the Economic Society of South Africa 2000 - 2011 Member of the Editorial Board of the South African Journal of Economics 2000 - 2010 African Econometric Society, Council Member 2000 - Member, Panel to Consider the Current Status of the Economic Society of Southern Africa 1999-2000 Member, SPA Working Group on Poverty and Social Policy, Assisting the World Bank in their planning for the 1999 Status Report on Poverty in Africa. 1998 Member, Three-person Technical Team advising the Reparations Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 1997 Editorial Panel, Development Southern Africa 1995-2000 Co-ordinator, South African Network for Economic Research (SANER) 1995-98

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Research Leadership Director, ARUA’s African Centre for Inequality Research 2018 - Principal Investigator, National Income Dynamics Study funded by the Office of the President and now the DPME 2006 - 2019 Project Leader, Research on Employment, Income Distribution and Inclusive Growth, a national project supported by the National Treasury. 2012-2018 Guest Editor, Special Edition of Development Southern Africa 2014

2 Principal Investigator, South Africa's Unfolding Human and Social Dynamics: Evidence from Longitudinal Data, as awarded by the National Research Foundation/Department of Science and Technology’s grants for: Human and Social Dynamics in Development Grand Challenges. 2012-2014 Principal Investigator, Social Protection and Labour Market Outcomes of the Youth in South Africa, for the IDRC’s Supporting Inclusive Growth Program. 2011-2013 Guest Editor, Special Edition of Studies in Economics and Econometrics 2010 Principal Investigator, Fertility, Intergenerational Transfers, and Economic Development in South Africa, as one of the Hewlett/PRB Global Teams of Research Excellence in Population, Reproductive Health and Economic Development. 2008/2011 UCT Principal Investigator, the Cape Area Panel Study. 2006/2008 Guest Editor, Special Edition of Economic Modelling 2005 Invited lecture at the 13th World Congress of the International Economics Association, Lisbon, 9th-13th September. 2002 UCT principal researcher, multi-year NICHD-funded survey research projects with Professor David Lam of the University of Michigan. 2001-2009 Member, Steering Committee of Mellon Foundation grant to stimulate research into poverty and inequality in South Africa. 2001-2008 Guest Editor, Special Edition, Studies in Economics and Econometrics 2000 Director, the Saldru Khayelitsha/Mitchell’s Plain 2000 Survey. 1999-2000 Project Leader, South African Country Study, under African Economic Research Consortium’s Research Programme on Poverty, Inequality and Labour Markets in Africa. 1998-2000

Books, Journal Articles and Book Chapters

“Analysis of the Distributional Effects of COVID-19 and State-Led Remedial Measures in South Africa”. (Forthcoming) The International Journal of Microsimulation. (Co-author with Gemma Wright, Jukka Pirttilä, Michael Noble, Wynnona Steyn, Brenton Van Vrede Gabriel Espi-Sanchis, David McLennan and Helen Barnes)

“Piketty comes to South Africa”. British Journal of Sociology. 2021; 72: 106 – 124. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12808 (Free Access) (Co-author with Fabio Díaz Pabón, Vimal Ranchhod and Mike Savage)

Inequality in the Developing World. (2021) WIDER Studies in Development Economics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://www.wider.unu.edu/publication/inequality-developing-world DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198863960.001.0001 (Edited with Carlos Gradín and Finn Tarp)

“Setting the Scene”. (2021). Chapter 1. In C. Gradın, M. Leibbrandt, & F. Tarp (Eds.), Inequality in the Developing World (1st ed., pp. 1–13). Oxford University Press. https://www.wider.unu.edu/publication/inequality-developing-world DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198863960.001.0001 (Co-author with Carlos Gradin, & Finn Tarp)

3 “South Africa: The top end, labour markets, fiscal redistribution, and the persistence of very high inequality”. (2021) Chapter 9. In C. Gradın, M. Leibbrandt, & F. Tarp (Eds.), Inequality in the Developing World (pp. 205–229). Oxford University Press. https://www.wider.unu.edu/publication/inequality-developing-world DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198863960.001.0001 (Co-author with Vimal Ranchhod and Pippa Green)

“Synthesis and policy implications”. (2021). Chapter 13. In C. Gradin, M. Leibbrandt, & F. Tarp (Eds.), Inequality in the Developing World (1st ed., pp. 321–337). Oxford University Press. https://www.wider.unu.edu/publication/inequality-developing-world DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198863960.001.0001 (Co-author with Gradin, C., Leibbrandt, M., & Tarp, F.)

“Locked down and locked out: Repurposing social assistance as emergency relief to informal workers.” (2021) World Development, 139, 105271. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105271 (Co-author with Ihsaan Bassier, Joshua Budlender, Rocco Zizzamia, Vimal Ranchhod)

"Why is youth unemployment so intractable in South Africa? A synthesis of evidence at the micro-level", (2020) Journal of Applied Youth Studies. 3, 115–131 https://doi.org/10.1007/s43151-020-00012-6 (Co-Author with Lauren Graham, Ariane Delannoy, Leila Patel)

“Identity, Inequality and Social Contestation in the Post-Apartheid South Africa”. In, Hino, H., Langer, A., Lonsdale, J. and Stewart, F. (2019). From Divided Pasts to Cohesive Futures? Reflections on Africa. Cambridge University Press. (Co-author with Hiroyuki Hino, Murray Leibbrandt, Ratjomose Machema, Muna Shifa and Crain Soudien)

“Assessing the usability of the Western Cape Graduate Destination Survey for the analysis of labour market outcomes”. (2018). Chapter 8 in Michael Rogan (Ed.) Post-School Education and the Labour Market in South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press. (Co-author with Nicola Branson)

“Tackling persistent poverty and inequality: A dynamic perspective”. (2018). Ch9 in Michael Nassen Smith (Ed.) Confronting Inequality: The South African Crisis. Johannesburg: Jacana. (Co-author with Simone Schotte and Rocco Zizzamia)

“Measuring and profiling financial literacy in South Africa”. (2018). South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences. 21(1), 1-17, a1645. https://doi.org/10.4102/sajems.v21i1.1645 Earlier Version Published as SALDRU Working Paper Number 171. Cape Town: SALDRU, 2016. (Co-author with Elizabeth Lwanga Nanziri)

“Relative Economic Position and Subjective Well-Being in a Poor Society: Does Relative Position Matter?”, (2018) Social Indicators Research. 139(2), 611-630.

4 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-017-1739-5 (Co-author with Muna Shifa)

“A Poverty Dynamics Approach to Social Stratification: The South African Case”. (2018). World Development. 110: 88-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.05.024 Earlier Version Published as SALDRU Working Paper Number 208. Cape Town: SALDRU, 2017. (Co-author with Simone Schotte and Rocco Zizzamia)

“Entry into and Exit from Informal Sector Ownership in South Africa”. (2018). Chapter 6 in Frederick Fourie (Ed.) The South African Informal Sector: Creating Jobs, Reducing Poverty, Cape Town: HSRC Press, pp. 151-177. (Co-author with Neil Lloyd)

“In-Work Poverty in South Africa: The Impact of Income Sharing in the Presence of High Unemployment”. (2018). Chapter 23 in Ive Marx and Henning Lohmann (Eds). Handbook of Research on In-Work Poverty, Cheltenham: Edgar Elgar, pp. 416-433. Earlier version as SALDRU Working Paper Number 193. Cape Town: SALDRU, 2016. (Co-author with Kezia Lilenstein and Ingrid Woolard)

Shifa, M. and Leibbrandt, M. (2017) ‘Urban Poverty and Inequality in Kenya’, Urban Forum, 28(4): 363-385. Available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-017-9317-0 Earlier version as SALDRU Working Paper No. 209. Cape Town: SALDRU, 2017.

“Measuring Inequality by Asset Indices: A General Approach with Application to South Africa”. (2017). Review of Income and Wealth, 63(4): 706–730. Available at: http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/roiw.12286 (Co-author with Martin Wittenberg) Earlier version as SALDRU Working Paper No. 141. Cape Town: SALDRU, 2015.

“Strategies of the Unemployed in South Africa: Does Moving Allow The Unemployed to Get Ahead?” (2016). Africanus: Journal of Development Studies, 46(1): 52–75. (Co-author with Amina Ebrahim and Ingrid Woolard). Earlier version as SALDRU Working Paper No. 157. Cape Town: SALDRU, 2015.

“Fifteen Years On: Household Incomes in South Africa”. (2016). In Edwards, S., Johnson, S. and Weil, D. (Eds.). African Successes: Government and Institutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Co-author with James Levinsohn). Earlier version as NBER Working Paper, No. 16661, Cambridge, January, 2011.

“Poverty, Inequality, and Prices in Post-Apartheid South Africa” (2016) Ch 17 in Arndt, C., McKay, A. and Tarp, F. (Eds.) Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. Pages 393-417. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Co-author with Arden Finn, and Morne Oosthuizen) http://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/openaccess/9780198744795.pdf

5 Earlier Version as WIDER Working Paper 2014/127, October, 2014. http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/2014/en_GB/wp2014-127/

“Assessing the Impact of Social Grants on Inequality: A South African Case Study”. (2016). Chapter 8 in Besley, T (Ed.) Contemporary Issues in Development Economics. Pages 112 - 135. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN: 978-1-137-57944-7 (Co-author with Reinhard Schiel and David Lam) http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/829958363.pdf Earlier Version as WIDER Working Paper 2014/160, December 2014. http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/2014/en_GB/wp2014-160/

“Why focus on Subjective-Wellbeing Inequality? Comments on “Inequality of Happiness: Evidence of the Compression of the Subjective Wellbeing Distribution in Economic Growth”. (2016). In Basu, K. and Stiglitz, J. (Eds.). Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy (Volume 1). Pages 246-249. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. 978-1-137-55453-6.

“A focus on youth: An opportunity to disrupt the intergenerational transmission of poverty”. (2015). Chapter 1 in De Lannoy A., Swartz S, Lake L., and Smith C. (Eds) (2015) South African Child Gauge 2015. Pages 24-35. Cape Town: Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town. ISBN: 978-0-7992-2525-9 (Co-author with Ariane De Lannoy and Emily Frame) http://www.ci.org.za/depts/ci/pubs/pdf/general/gauge2015/ChildGauge2015-lowres.pdf

“Health outcomes for children born to teen mothers in Cape Town, South Africa”. (2015). Economic Development and Cultural Change. 63(3): 551-588. (Co-author with Nicola Branson and Cally Ardington) Earlier version as SALDRU Working Paper No. 55. Cape Town: SALDRU, March. 2011.

“Unemployment in South Africa”. (2014). Chapter 29 in Bhorat, H., Hirsch, A., Kanbur, R. and Ncube, M. (Eds.). The Oxford Companion to the Economics of South Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Co-author with Cecil Mlatsheni)

“Post-apartheid Poverty and Inequality Trends”. (2014). Chapter 36 in Bhorat, H., Hirsch, A., Kanbur, R. and Ncube, M. (Eds.). The Oxford Companion to the Economics of South Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Co-author with Arden Finn and Vimal Ranchhod)

“Distance decay and persistent health care disparities in South Africa”. (2014). BMC Health Services Research. 14(1): 541 (9 pages). (Co-author with Zoe McLaren and Cally Ardington) http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/14/541

“South Africa”. (2014) In Hino, H. and Ranis, G. (Eds). Youth and Employment in Sub- Saharan Africa. London: Routledge. (Co-author with Martin Abel, Megan Blair, Raissa Fabregas and Kamilla Gumede)

6 “Getting ahead or falling behind: Findings from the second wave of NIDS”. (2014). Development Southern Africa. 31(1): 1-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2013.853613 (Co-author with Ingrid Woolard and Reza Daniel)

“New evidence on subjective wellbeing and the definition of unemployment in South Africa”. (2014). Development Southern Africa. 31(1): 85-105. (Co-author with Neil Lloyd). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2013.864513 Earlier version as SALDRU Working Paper No. 94. Cape Town: SALDRU, May. 2013.

“Moving Out and Moving In: Evidence of Short-Term Household Change in South Africa from the National Income Dynamics Study”. (2014). Development Southern Africa. 31(1): 146-167. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2013.851022 (Co-author with Lloyd Grieger, April Williamson and James Levinsohn). Earlier version as SALDRU Working Paper No. 106. Cape Town: SALDRU, August. 2013.

“Income mobility in a high-inequality society: Evidence from the first two waves of NIDS”. (2014). Development Southern Africa. 31(1): 16-30. (Co-author with Arden Finn and James Levinsohn) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2013.851021 Earlier version as SALDRU Working Paper, No. 82/ NIDS Discussion Paper 2012/5.

“Winners and losers: South African labour market dynamics between 2008 and 2010”. (2014). Development Southern Africa. 31(1): 65-84. (Co-author with Paul Cichello and Ingrid Woolard) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2013.853612 Earlier version published as SALDRU Working Paper, No. 78/ NIDS Discussion Paper 2012/1.

“Social programs and transfers: Are we learning?” (2013). In Sepulveda, C., Harrison, A. and Lin, J. (Eds.) Development Challenges in a Post-Crisis World. Proceedings from the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2011. Washington. . Pp 363-84. (Co-author with Ingrid Woolard). https://books.google.co.za/books?id=ERK5AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA382&dq=leibbrandt+and+woolard+social+transfers&hl=en&sa=X&ei=U8 W3VKrlK_HU7Aadg4DoBw&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=leibbrandt%20and%20woolard%20social%20transfers&f=false Earlier version published as SALDRU Working Paper, No. 51.

"Educational Inheritance and the Distribution of Occupations: Evidence from South Africa". (2013). Review of Income and Wealth. Series 59:S111-S137, October. (Co-author with Malcolm Keswell and Sarah Girdwood) Early version published as SALDRU Working Paper, No 74, 2011.

“Post-Apartheid Changes in South African Inequality". (2013). In Gornick, J. and Jantti, M. (Eds). Income Inequality -- Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries. Stanford University Press. (Co-author with Arden Finn and Ingrid Woolard)

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“Describing and Decomposing Post-apartheid Income Inequality in South Africa” (2012). Development Southern Africa, 29(1): 19-34. (Co-author with Arden Finn and Ingrid Woolard)

“Minimum Wages and Household Poverty: General Equilibrium Macro-Micro Simulations for South Africa” (2012). World Development, 40(4): 771-783. (Co-author with Karl Pauw).

“Policies for Reducing Income Inequality and Poverty in South Africa” (2011). Chapter 4 in Hofmeyr, J (Ed.) From Inequality to Inclusive Growth: 2011 Transformation Audit. Wynberg: Institute for Justice and Reconciliation. (pages 72-81). ISBN:978-1-920219-35-2. (Co-author with Arden Finn and Eva Wegner). Early version published as SALDRU Working Paper, No 64, 2011.

“Explaining the Persistence of Racial Gaps in Schooling in South Africa,” (2011). African Population Studies. 25(2): 509-542. (Co-author with Cally Ardington, Nicola Branson and David Lam).

“Labour Market Restructuring and South Africa’s Rural ‘Homeland’ Communities in the 1980s” (2011). Economic History of Developing Areas. 26(1):100-118.

“Can Out-of-Pocket Health Financing be Fair? Empirical Evidence from Nigeria” (2011) Asian-African Journal of Economics and Econometrics. 11(1): 163-185. (Co-author with Hyacinth Ichoku and William Fonta).

“Schooling as a Lottery: Racial Differences in School Advancement in Urban South Africa” (2011) Journal of Development Economics. 95: 121-136 (Co-author with David Lam and Cally Ardington). Early version published as SALDRU Working Paper, No 18., 2008 and ERSA Working Paper, No. 56.

“Free Education and Social Inequality in Ugandan Primary Schools: A Step Backward or a Step in the Right Direction?” (2011) International Journal of Educational Development. 31: 169-178 (Co-author with Tia Linda Zuze). Early version published as SALDRU Working Paper No 37, August 2009.

“Youth Unemployment in South Africa: Challenges, Concepts and Opportunities” Journal of International Relations and Development (2011) 14, 118–126. (Co-author with Cecil Mlatsheni).

“Better Employment to Reduce Inequality Further in South Africa” (2010). Chapter 5 in OECD 2010. Tackling Inequalities in Brazil, India, China and South Africa: the Role of Labour Market and Social Policies. Pages 209-262. OECD Publishing. (Co-author with Ingrid Woolard, Hayley McEwen and Charlotte Koep.

“Introduction to the Special Edition on the South African National Income Dynamics Study” (2010) Studies in Economics and Econometrics 34(3): 1-5. (Co-author with Vimal Ranchhod and Ingrid Woolard).

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“The South African National Income Dynamics Study: Design and Methodological Issues” (2010) Studies in Economics and Econometrics 34(3): 7-24. (Co-author with Ingrid Woolard and Louise de Villiers).

“Changes in Income Poverty Over the Post-Apartheid Period: An Analysis Based on Data from the 1993 Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development and the 2008 Base Wave of the National Income Dynamics Study” (2010) Studies in Economics and Econometrics 34(3): 25-43. (Co-author with Arden Finn, Jonathan Argent and Ingrid Woolard). Earlier version published as National Income Dynamics Discussion Paper Number 9. SALDRU, UCT.

“Orphanhood and Schooling in South Africa: Trends in the Vulnerability of Orphans Between 1993 and 2005”. (2010) Economic Development and Cultural Change 58(3): 507- 36. (Co-author with Cally Ardington).

"Incomes in South Africa after the Fall of Apartheid," (2010) Journal of Globalization and Development 1(1), Article 2. (Co-author with James Levinsohn and Justin McCrary. Available at: http://www.bepress.com/jgd/vol1/iss1/art2 Earlier version published as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 11384, May2005.

“The impact of AIDS on intergenerational support in South Africa: Evidence from the Cape Area Panel Study” (2010) Research on Aging 32(1): 97-121. (Co-author with Cally Ardington, Anne Case, Mahnaz Islam, David Lam and Alicia Menendez). Earlier version published as SALDRU Working Paper Number 27, February 2009.

“The demand for tertiary education in South Africa” (2009) In Cloete (Ed.) Responding to the educational needs of post-school youth. Wynberg: Centre for Higher Education Development. (Co-author with Nicola Branson and Linda Zuze).

“Youth in Sub-Saharan Labour Markets” (2009) Chapter 9 in Seck, D. and Busari, D. (Eds.) Growth and Development in Africa. New Jersey: Africa World Press. (Co-author with Cecil Mlatsheni). ISBN: 1592216854

“The persistence of high income inequality in South Africa: Some recent evidence” (2009) In Hofmeyr, J (Ed.) Recession and Recovery: 2009 Transformation Audit. Wynberg: Institute for Justice and Reconciliation. (Co-author with Ingrid Woolard and Hayley McEwen).

“Education and Youth Unemployment in South Africa”. (2009) In Kanbur, R and Svejnar, J. (Eds). Labour Markets and Economic Development, New York: Routledge. (Co-author with David Lam and Cecil Mlatsheni). Earlier version of this chapter was published as SALDRU Working Paper Number 22, Cape Town: SALDRU.

"Poverty and Inequality Dynamics in South Africa: Post-apartheid Developments in the Light of the Long-Run Legacy". (2009). Chapter 10 in Aron, J., Kahn, B. and Kingdon, G. (Eds.)

9 South African Economic Policy under Democracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Co- author with Ingrid Woolard and Christopher Woolard).

“Simulating the employment prospects of rural migrants in an urban setting: What can we learn from survey data?” (2008). In “Migrants’ Experiences within the South African Labour Market”, Voyage Ensemble - Special Issue, Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town. ISBN: 978-0- 620-42214-7 (Co-author with Cecil Mlatsheni).

“Magnitudes, Personal Characteristics and Activities of Eastern Cape Migrants: A Comparison with Other Migrants and with Non-migrants Using Data from the 1996 and 2001 Censuses”. (2008) South African Journal of Demography. 11(1):3-38. (Co-author with Nalen Naidoo and Rob Dorrington)

“Linking Poverty and Income Shocks to Risky Sexual Behaviour: Evidence from a Panel Study of Young Adults in Cape Town”. (2008) South African Journal of Economics, 76(S1): S52-S74. (Co-author with Taryn Dinkelman and David Lam).

“Household and Community Income, Economic Shocks and Risky Sexual Behaviour: Evidence from the Cape Area Panel Study 2002 and 2005”. (2007) AIDS, 21(Supplement 7): S49-S58 (Co-author with Taryn Dinkelman and David Lam).

“The Financial Impact of HIV/AIDS in Poor Households in South Africa”. (2007). AIDS, 21 (Supplement 7): S75-S82. (Co-author with Daryl Collins).

“Trade-Induced Employment Changes: Promising or Problematic for Poor Households in South Africa?” (2007) Studies in Economics and Econometrics, 31(2):89-108. (Co-author with Kalie Pauw and Lawrence Edwards).

“Measuring Recent Changes in South African Inequality and Poverty Using 1996 and 2001 Census Data”. (2006). Chapter 3 in Bhorat, H. and Kanbur, R. Poverty and Policy in Post- Apartheid South Africa. Pages: 95-142. Pretoria: HSRC Press. (Co-author with Poswell, L. Naidoo, P. and Welch, M.). A shortened version was published as “Changes in Inequality and Poverty” New Agenda, 23, Third Quarter (2006): 20-26.

“Labour Force Withdrawal of the Elderly in South Africa” (2006). Chapter 7 in Cohen, B. Aging in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recommendations for Furthering Research. Pages: 214-249. Washington: National Academy of Sciences. (Co-author with Lam, D. and Ranchhod, V.).

“Determinants of job search strategies: Evidence from the Khayelitsha/ Mitchell's Plain Survey (2006)” South African Journal of Economics. 74(4): 702-24. (Co-author with Volker Schöer).

10 Introduction to Special Edition. (2006) Economic Modelling. 23: 73. (Co-author with J. Fedderke).

The Sensitivity of Estimates of Post-Apartheid Changes in South African Poverty and Inequality to Key Data Imputations. (2006) Economic Modelling. 23: 822-835 (Co-author with C. Ardington, C., Lam, D. and Welch, M.).

"Earnings and Employment Dynamics for Africans in Post-apartheid South Africa: A Panel Study of KwaZulu-Natal" (2005) Journal of African Economies, 14(3): 143-190. (Co-author with Fields, G. and Cichello, P.).

“Social Assistance, Gender and the Aged in South Africa”. (2005). Feminist Economics 11(2): 101-114. (Co-author with Burns, J. and M. Keswell, M.).

“South African Poverty and Inequality: Measuring the Changes”. (2004) In Brown, S and Folscher, A., (Eds) Taking Power in the Economy: Gains and Directions: 76-91. Cape Town: Institute for Justice and Reconciliation. (Co-author with Naidoo, P, Poswell, L, Welch, M and Woolard, I.).

“Savings, Insurance and Debt Over the Post-apartheid Period: A Review of Recent Research and an Exploration of Policy Implications”. (2004) South African Journal of Economics. 72(3): 604- 620. (Co-author with Ardington, C, Lam, D. and J. Levinsohn).

“Demand for Healthcare Services in Nigeria: A Multivariate Nested Logit Model”. (2003) African Development Review 15(2): 396-424. (Co-author with Ichoku, H).

"Income Mobility and Household Dynamics in South Africa: the Case of Africans in KwaZulu- Natal”. (2002) Labour Markets and Social Frontiers, 2:5-11. (Co-author with Woolard, I. and S Klasen).

“The Labour Market and Household Income Inequality in South Africa: Existing Evidence and New Panel Data”. (2001) Journal of International Development 13: 671-89. (Co-author with Ingrid Woolard).

“Household Inequality and the Labour Market in South Africa”. (2001) Contemporary Economic Policy. 19(1): 73-86. (Co-author with H Bhorat and I Woolard).

“Are African Workers Getting Ahead in the New South Africa? Evidence from Kwazulu-Natal, 1993-1998” (2001) Social Dynamics 27(1). (Co-author with Paul Cichello and Gary Fields).

Fighting Poverty: Labour Markets and Inequality in South Africa. (2001). University of Cape Town Press. ISBN: 191971362X. 252 pages. This book is the output of the two year project funded by the African Economic Research Consortium and the South African Department of Labour. I was the project leader. I was co-author of 6 of the 9 Chapters: • “Introduction”. Pp1-20. (Co-author with Servaas van der Berg and Haroon Bhorat). • “Understanding Contemporary Household Inequality in South Africa”. Pp. 21-40. (Co- author with Ingrid Woolard and Haroon Bhorat).

11 • “Measuring Poverty in South Africa”. Pp. 41-73. (Co-author with Ingrid Woolard). • “Correlates of Vulnerability in the South African Labour Market”. Pp. 74-107. (Co- author with Haroon Bhorat). • “Modelling Vulnerability in the South African Labour Market”. Pp.107-29. (Co-author with Haroon Bhorat). • “Household Incomes, Poverty and Inequality in a Multivariate Framework”. Pp130-54. (Co-author with Ingrid Woolard).

“Which African Workers Have Gotten Ahead and by How Much? The Story of KwaZulu- Natal, South Africa, 1993-98”. Final Report for Project Commissioned by the South African Treasury. 2001. (Co-author with Gary Fields and Paul Cichello).

"Towards an Understanding of South Africa's Inequality". (2000). In Elbadawi, I and T. Hartzenberg (Eds) Transitional and Long-Term Development Issues in South Africa:14-50. London: Macmillan. (Co-author with H. Bhorat and I. Woolard).

“Introduction to Special Edition”. (2000). Studies in Economics and Econometrics. 24(3): 1-6. (Co author with N. Nattrass). Professor Nattrass and I were guest editors of this edition of Studies in Economics and Econometrics.

“Understanding Contemporary Household Inequality in South Africa”. (2000). Studies in Economics and Econometrics. 24(3): 31-52. (Co author with H Bhorat and I Woolard).

"The Contribution of Income Components to South African Income Inequality: A Decomposable Gini Analysis". (2000) Journal of African Economies. 9(1):79-99. (Co-author with I. and C. Woolard). An earlier version was published as "The Contribution of Income Components to South African Income Inequality: A Decomposable Gini Analysis". Living Standards Measurement Study, Working Paper No. 125. 1996. Washington: The World Bank.

“Poverty and the Labour Market”. (2000). In May, J (Ed.) Poverty and Inequality in South Africa: Meeting the Challenge. 73-96. Cape Town: David Philip.

“Provincial Poverty Comparisons in South Africa”. (1999). Development Southern Africa 16(1): 37-54. (Co-author with I. Woolard).

“The Impact of the Marketing of Agricultural Products Bill, 1996: Restructuring within the Wheat Industry”. (1998). Agrekon. September. (Co-author with L. Edwards).

"Poverty and self-employment in South Africa". (1998). Studies in Economics and Econometrics 22(3): 25-41. (Co-author with H. Bhorat).

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12 Review of M. Neocosmos "The Agrarian Question in Southern Africa and Accumulation from Below". Journal of Contemporary African Studies. 13(1): 129-133, 1995.

"Separate Developments: The Differential Impact of Homeland Policy on Two Rural Ciskeian Villages", Development Southern Africa, 11(2): 159-176, May 1994. (Co-author with C. de Wet).

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"Rethinking Socialist Economics" (Review Note). South African Journal of Economics. 55(3), 1987.

"On the Welfare and Employment Effects of Economic Sanctions: Comment". South African Journal of Economics. 55(3), 1987. (Co-author with B. Dollery).

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Unpublished Reports and Working Papers

Lam, D., Leibbrandt, M. and Allen, J. (2019). The Demography of the Labor Force in Sub- Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities. GLM|LIC Synthesis Paper No. 10 | November 2019. Bonn: GLM|LIC c/o IZA – Institute of Labor Economics.

Storme, E., De Lannoy, A., Leibbrandt, M., De Boeck, F., Mudiriza, G. (2019). Developing a Multidimensional Youth Employability Index to unpack vulnerabilities in the lived realities

13 of youth in Post-apartheid South Africa. SALDRU Working Paper Number 255. Cape Town: SALDRU, UCT.

Kahn, A., Branson,N., Leibbrandt, M. (2019). Returns to English skills in the South African labour market. SALDRU Working Paper No. 251. Cape Town: SALDRU, UCT.

Zizzamia, R., Schotte, S. & Leibbrandt, M. (2019) Snakes and ladders and loaded dice: Poverty dynamics and inequality in South Africa, 2008–2017. WIDER Working Paper 2019/25. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER.

Ebrahim, A., Leibbrandt, M. and Ranchhod, V. (2017). The effects of the Employment Tax Incentive on South African employment. WIDER Working Paper No 2017/5. Helsinki, Finland: UNU-WIDER.

Branson, N., and Leibbrandt, M. (2017). Assessing the usability of the Western Cape Graduate Destination Survey for the analysis of labour market outcomes. A Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit Working Paper Number 198. Cape Town: SALDRU, University of Cape Town.

Finn, A., Leibbrandt, M., Ranchhod, V. (2017). Patterns of persistence: Intergenerational mobility and education in South Africa. Version 2. Cape Town: SALDRU, UCT. (SALDRU Working Paper Number 175/ NIDS Discussion Paper 2016/2).

Finn, A., Leibbrandt, M. (2017). The dynamics of poverty in South Africa. Version 2. Cape Town: SALDRU, UCT. (SALDRU Working Paper Number 174/ NIDS Discussion Paper 2016/1).

Hundenborn, J., Leibbrandt, M., Woolard, I. (2016). Drivers of Inequality in South Africa. A Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit Working Paper Number 194. Cape Town: SALDRU, University of Cape Town.

Thornton, AJ., Leibbrandt, M., Ardington, C. (2016). Pathways to food security in South Africa: Food quality and quantity in NIDS Wave 1. A Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit Working Paper Number 190. Cape Town: SALDRU, University of Cape Town.

Frame, E., De Lannoy, A., Koka, P., Leibbrandt, M. (2016). Multidimensional Youth Poverty: Estimating the Youth MPI in South Africa at ward level. A Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit Working Paper Number 189. Cape Town: SALDRU, University of Cape Town.

Nanziri, E., Leibbrandt, M. (2016). Measuring and profiling financial literacy in South Africa. A Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit Working Paper Number 171. Cape Town: SALDRU, University of Cape Town.

Garlick, J, Leibbrandt, M and Levinsohn, J A., Individual Migration and Household Incomes (June 2016). NBER Working Paper No. w22326. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2794772

14 Frame, E., De Lannoy, A., Leibbrandt, M. (2016). Measuring multidimensional poverty among youth in South Africa at the sub-national level. A Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit Working Paper Number 169. Cape Town: SALDRU, University of Cape Town.

Lam, D., Finn, A. and Leibbrandt, M. (2015) Schooling inequality, returns to schooling, and earnings inequality: Evidence from Brazil and South Africa, UNU-WIDER : WP/2015/050. Helsinki.

Ryan, J., Leibbrandt, M. (2015). Multidimensional Food Insecurity Measurement. A Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit Working Paper Number 160. Cape Town: SALDRU, University of Cape Town.

Mlatsheni, C., Leibbrandt, M. (2015). Duration of unemployment in youth transitions from schooling to work in Cape Town. A Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit Working Paper Number 159. Cape Town: SALDRU, University of Cape Town.

Budlender, J., Leibbrandt, M., Woolard, I. (2015). South African poverty lines: a review and two new money-metric thresholds A Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit Working Paper Number 151. Cape Town: SALDRU, University of Cape Town

Shifa, M., Leibbrandt, M., Wittenberg, M. (2015). Does tenure insecurity explain the variations in land related investment decisions in rural Ethiopia? A Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit Working Paper Number 150. Cape Town: SALDRU, University of Cape Town

Ardington, C., Lam, D., Leibbrandt, M., Menendez, A. (2015). Fertility and mother’s labour market behaviour: Evidence from the 2011 South African Census A Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit Working Paper Number 149. Cape Town: SALDRU, University of Cape Town

The Middle Class and Inequality in South Africa. PSPPD Working Paper. (2013). (Co-author with Arden Finn and Ingrid Woolard) http://www.psppd.org.za/MediaLib/Downloads/Home/AboutUs/The%20middle%20class%20and%20inequality %20in%20South%20Africa.pdf

“What happened to multidimensional poverty in South Africa between 1993 and 2010?” (2013). Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit Working Paper Number 99. Cape Town: SALDRU, University of Cape Town. (Co-author with Arden Finn and Ingrid Woolard)

“Educational Attainment and Labour Market Outcomes in South Africa, 1994-2010” (2013) OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No. 1022, OECD Publishing. (Co-author with Nicola Branson).

“Education Quality and Labour Market Outcomes in South Africa” (2013) OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No. 1021, OECD Publishing. (Co-author with Nicola Branson).

15 “Fifteen years on: Household Incomes in South Africa” (2011) National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper, No. 16661, Cambridge, January. (Co-author with James Levinsohn).

“Trends in South African Income Distribution and Poverty Since the Fall of Apartheid” (2010) OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers No. 101, January. (Co- author with Ingrid Woolard, Arden Finn and Jonathan Argent).

“Parental Loss and Schooling: Evidence from Metropolitan Cape Town”. (2010) SALDRU Working Paper, Number 51. Cape Town: SALDRU. November. (Co-author with Cally Ardington)

“Methodology” (2009) National Income Dynamics Technical Report, Number 1. Cape Town. SALDRU. (Co-author with Ingrid Woolard and Louise de Villiers).

“Expenditure” (2009) National Income Dynamics Technical Report, Number 4. Cape Town. SALDRU. (Co-author with Arden Finn, Simon Franklin, Malcolm Keswell, and Jim Levinsohn).

“Income and Expenditure Inequality” (2009). National Income Dynamics Discussion Paper, Number 4. SALDRU. (Co-author with Arden Finn and Ingrid Woolard).

“Personal Debt and Financial Access” (2009). National Income Dynamics Discussion Paper, Number 8. SALDRU. (Co-author with Garakai Nyaruwata).

“Intergenerational Mobility” (2009). National Income Dynamics Discussion Paper, Number 10. SALDRU. (Co-author with Sarah Girdwood).

“Sequential Regression Multiple Imputation for Incomplete Multivariate Data Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo”. (2008) SALDRU Working Paper, Number 13. Cape Town: SALDRU. (Co-author with Miguel Lacerda and Cally Ardington).

“Asset-based Versus Money-metric Poverty Indices in South Africa: An assessment using the Chronic Poverty Research Centre RSA 2002 Survey.” (2005) CSSR Working Paper, No. 109. (Co-author with Crosoer, D. and Woolard, I).

“Income Inequality After Apartheid”. (2004). CSSR Working Paper, No. 04/75, August. (Co-author with Seekings, J. and Nattrass, N.).

“Financial Services and the Informal Economy” (2004). CSSR Working Paper 04/66, May. (Co-author with Ardington, C.).

“Inequality in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Trends in the Distribution of Incomes and Opportunities and their Social and Political Implications”. (2003). Report for the Centre for Enterprise Development, July. (Co-author with Seekings, J and N Nattrass).

16 “Measures and Determinants of Unemployment in South Africa”. (2002) Report for the United Nations Development Program, May. (Co-author with H. Bhorat).

“Increasing the Demand for Labour in South Africa” (2001) EAGER Research Report, Boston. September. (Co-author with Dirck Strycker, Fuad Cassim, Rajaratnam, Haroon Bhorat and Daniel Plunket).

“Which African Workers Have Gotten Ahead and by How Much? The Story of KwaZulu- Natal, South Africa, 1993-98”. (2001) Final Report for Project Commissioned by the South African Treasury. (Co-author with Gary Fields and Paul Cichello).

“The Role of Education and Fertility in the Participation and Employment of African Women in South Africa” DPRU Working Papers No 01/54, September 2001. (Co-author with Cecil Mlatsheni).

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"A Multivariate Analysis of Poverty in South Africa". (1998). Research paper prepared for and published in The Poverty and Inequality Report. Report prepared for the Office of the Executive Deputy President of South African and the Interministerial Committee for Poverty and Inequality. (Co-author with I. Woolard). The technical sections of this paper were published as Appendix 5 of the report and other sections of the paper were included as part of Chapter 9 of the report.

"Understanding Deregulation: An Analysis of the Wheat Processing Industry". Trade and Industry Monitor December 1997, Vol. 4. (Co-author with L. Edwards).

“Deregulation and the Wheat Filiere: Past, Present and Future”. Final Report, Restructuring Agriculture in South Africa Project. (1997). (Co-author with L. Edwards). (Pages 1-70, including appendices).

"The Economics of Language in South Africa: Comments on Strauss". In Strauss, Leibbrandt, Beukes and Heugh The Economics of Language Language Planning Report No 5.2. Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, August 1996.

"South African Labour Market Policy". Oxford Analytica. July 1996.

"Rural Labour Markets, Migrant Labour and Rural Poverty in South Africa". Report for the International Labour Office. February 1996. (Co-author with I. Woolard). (107 pages, excluding appendices).

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17 Social and Economic Research. Rhodes University. August 1989 (Co-author with C. de Wet and R. Palmer).

"Some Thoughts on Leon Louw's Proposals for Tribal Land Reform in the Ciskei". Ciskei Agricultural Journal. 4, 1st Quarter, 1987 (Co-author with C. de Wet).

SCHOLARSHIPS, BURSARIES AND AWARDS

2015 Elected a Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa 2014 Fellow of the University of Cape Town 2014 Co-Principal Investigator of the proposal that was awarded the tender by the Presidency for the fourth wave of the National Income Dynamics Study 2013 NRF/DSD National Research Chair in Poverty and Inequality Research Renewed 2013 Awarded a B1 Rating as a Researcher by the National Research Foundation. 2012 PI of successful proposal in response to the NRF/DST call for research into Human and Social Dynamics in Development Grand Challenge (HSDD). 2012 Co-Principal Investigator of successful $175 000 proposal in response to the Population Reference Bureau and Hewlett Foundation Joint Call for Research into Population, Reproductive Health, and Economic Development 2011 Co-Principal Investigator of the proposal that was awarded the tender by the Presidency for the third wave of the National Income Dynamics Study 2009 Co-Principal Investigator of the proposal that was awarded the tender by the Presidency for the second wave of the National Income Dynamics Study 2008 PI of successful $350 000 proposal in response to the Hewlett Foundation/PRB call for Global Teams of Research Excellence in Population, Reproductive Health and Economic Development. 2008 Awarded an NRF/DSD National Research Chair in Poverty and Inequality Research. 2008 Awarded a B2 Rating as a Researcher by the National Research Foundation. 2006 Co-Principal Investigator of the proposal that was awarded the tender by the Presidency to launch the first wave of the National Income Dynamics Study. 2005 Principal Investigator on a R3,5 million sub-contract with Princeton University to expand the 2006 wave of the Cape Area Panel Study. 2004 Director of the grant writing team that wrote a successful renewal application to the Mellon Foundation for $600 000 over three years to support a Demography Programme at UCT. 2003 Winner of the University of Cape Town’s Alan Pifer Award for outstanding welfare – related research. 2003 UCT Principal Researcher on a successful University of Michigan/UCT proposal to the NICHD to do research and new survey work on “Family Support and Rapid Social Change in South Africa”. The award will bring $800 000 to UCT over five years. This award funded the Cape Area Panel Study in 2006 and 2007. 2003 University of Cape Town meritorious publication award for Book Fighting Poverty: Labour Markets and Inequality in South Africa 2002 Awarded a B2 Rating as a Researcher by the National Research Foundation.

18 2001/2 Wrote a successful application to the African Economics Research Consortium on behalf of the School of Economics at UCT as a result of which we were nominated and funded as the host institution in Southern Africa for PhD training in Economics. 2001 Wrote a successful application for a three year $250 000 USAID grant to facilitate Master’s studies in Economics at UCT in Labour Economics and Labour Market Policy. 2001 Director of the grant writing team that wrote a successful application to the Mellon Foundation for $600 000 over three years to develop a Demography Programme at UCT. 1997 Project leader for the South African team that was awarded a two-year research contract by the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) in order undertake the South African Country Study for the African Economic Research Consortium’s Research Programme on Poverty, Inequality and Labour Markets in Africa. The South African study is jointly funded by the AERC and the South African Department of Labour. 1993 Winner of the Industrial Development Corporation's Competition to Promote Academic Research into Industrial Policy and Development in South Africa (With T Wright and T Bell). 1992 Kellogg Institute for International Studies (Dissertation Fellowship) 1992 South African National Scholarship 1991 Economics Department of the University of Notre Dame (McGee Dissertation Fellowship) 1990 Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) Prestige Scholarship (For Ph.D studies abroad) 1990 University of Notre Dame Teaching Assistantship (For Ph.D studies) 1986 University of Notre Dame Graduate Assistantship (For Ph.D studies) (declined) 1984 Fulbright Scholarship (Masters Degree study in the United States) 1984 Rhodes University Masters Scholarship (declined) 1983 Senbank Prize of the South African Journal of Economics (Best honours essay in Economics by a student at a South African University) 1983 Rhodes University Academic Full Colours 1983 Rhodes University (Honours Scholarship) 1983 HSRC Honours Scholarship 1982 Rhodes University Threlfel Prize (Best final year undergraduate student in economics)

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