In a Bloomberg piece, Dr. Kate Orkin discusses policy options for countries during the pandemic and how many arguments against cash transfers are not supported by rigorous evidence.
South Africa’s poverty relief grant should be increased rather than paid to be more people – economists explain why
Kate Orkin et al.
The Conversation Africa, 03 December 2024
The Blavatnik School of Government has announced they are offering a new studentship for DPhil doing quantitative economic research on urban labour markets in Africa, supervised by the MBRG's Kate Orkin.
Apply by 09 January 2025
Lead of the MBRG Kate Orkin talks to CSAE Director Stefan Dercon about the work behind the ESRC Outstanding Public Policy Impact Award 2023 on with cash transfers grants in South Africa during the Covid-19 Pandemic in episode nine of the CSAE Research Podcasts series.
You can listen to the conversation via the University of Oxford Podcasts or Apple Podcasts, or watch the discussion on the CSAE YouTube channel.
The MBRG's Kate Orkin and co-authors partnered with the South African NGO to study how information from soft skills assessments could be shared to alleviate labour market frictions between firms and young workseekers. Click for a VoxDev summary of results.
Research by the MBRG's Kate Orkin and collaborator Anett John was published in the June 2022 issue of the Journal of European Economic Association. See here for the policy note.
The UNDP Accelerator Lab in The Gambia is launching an exciting new soft skills training programme for young people who have lost their jobs because of COVID-19. The program will be adopting a labour market intervention developed by Carranza, Garlick, Orkin and Rankin (2020) to reduce labour market friction between prospective employers and young work-seekers.
South Africa’s poverty relief grant should be increased rather than paid to be more people – economists explain why
Kate Orkin et al.
The Conversation Africa, 03 December 2024
The Blavatnik School of Government has announced they are offering a new studentship for DPhil doing quantitative economic research on urban labour markets in Africa, supervised by the MBRG's Kate Orkin.
Apply by 09 January 2025
Lead of the MBRG Kate Orkin talks to CSAE Director Stefan Dercon about the work behind the ESRC Outstanding Public Policy Impact Award 2023 on with cash transfers grants in South Africa during the Covid-19 Pandemic in episode nine of the CSAE Research Podcasts series.
You can listen to the conversation via the University of Oxford Podcasts or Apple Podcasts, or watch the discussion on the CSAE YouTube channel.