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Researchers
Researchers are full or part time employees of SALDRU.
Cally Ardington
Associate Professor
Cally is an Associate Professor in SALDRU. She has previously worked as a Lecturer in the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Cape Town, a Structured Debt and Equity Solutions Specialist at African Harvest Capital and a Market Risk Analyst at NatWest Markets, London. Cally holds a PhD in Economics from UCT. She has extensive experience in the design, management and micro-econometric analysis of social surveys. She has published work on racial inequities in education, orphanhood and schooling, pensions and labour supply, access to financial services and technical aspects of the analysis of survey data.
SALDRU working papers
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Office 3.12, School of Economics, Middle Campus, UCT, Rondebosch, 7700
(+27) 021 650 2749
Emmanuel Bakirdjian
J-PAL Africa Research Manager
In July 2012, Emmanuel joined the J-PAL Africa office as a Research Manager. He is currently working on three different randomized evaluations focused on the South African labour market and youth unemployment. His job also involves supporting J-PAL capacity building activities across the continent, particularly in francophone countries. For the past two years, he worked for IPA, J-PAL's partner organization, in Rwanda on a coffee agronomy training program evaluation. He also supported an IPA project in Sierra Leone experimenting with the introduction and adoption of an improved rice variety (NERICA) among poor farmers. Emmanuel holds a M.Sc. in Development Economics from CERDI (Centre for Studies and Research on International Development), Clermont-Ferrand, France.
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Office 3.16, School of Economics, Middle Campus, UCT, Rondebosch, 7700
(+27) 021 650 5981
Nicola Branson
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Nicola Branson is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SALDRU. She is currently involved in quantitative research in education inequality and the intergenerational consequence of teenage childbearing in South Africa using household survey data. Nicola holds a PhD (2011), Masters (2008) and Bachelors of Business Science (2005) in Economics from UCT. She has experience data cleaning longitudinal surveys and in the micro-econometric analysis of social surveys. She has published work on education inequality in South African and trends in employment status using national household survey data.
SALDRU working papers
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Office 3.09, School of Economics, Middle Campus, UCT, Rondebosch, 7700
(+27) 021 650 4344
Laura Costica
J-PAL Africa Research Manager
Laura Costica joined the J-PAL Africa team in July 2012 to work on the Urban Services Initiative as Research Manager for Africa. Previously, she worked with IPA in Nigeria, where she managed a randomized controlled trial of a maternal mortality reduction project in the North of the country. Laura also has experience conducting field research in urban and rural India. In Gujarat, she worked on several urban development and governance projects commissioned by policy makers in the state. In Tamil Nadu, she managed a survey profiling the health status of rural populations. Laura holds an M.Sc. in International Economics from the University of Essex and a B.A. in Economics from Nottingham Trent University.
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Office 3.18, School of Economics, Middle Campus, UCT, Rondebosch, 7700
(+27) 021 650 5981
Arden Finn
Research Fellow
Arden Finn is a research fellow at SALDRU. He holds a Masters in development economics from the University of Oxford and a BCom(Hons) in Economics from UCT. His research focuses on inequality, poverty and the analysis of panel data. He has experience lecturing Honours level survey data analysis and training a wide range of participants in cross sectional and panel data analysis in South Africa, Ghana and Uganda.
SALDRU working papers
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Office 3.11, School of Economics, Middle Campus, UCT, Rondebosch, 7700
(+27) 021 650 5784
 Kamilla Gumede
J-PAL Africa Executive Director
Kamilla Gumede is the Executive Director for J-PAL Africa at SALDRU. Her work involves working with governments and NGOs in Africa to decipher policy lessons from research, making policies more evidence-based and effective, and collaborating with researchers and policy makers to identify and run randomized evaluations that answer policy questions facing African decision makers. She has an M.A. in Economics from the University of Copenhagen, and an M.A. in Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. She has previously worked for the South African National Treasury as well as for a number of international aid agencies in Europe and Africa.
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Office 3.18, School of Economics, Middle Campus, UCT, Rondebosch, 7700
(+27) 021 650 5981
 Clare Hofmeyr
Research Fellow
Clare Hofmeyr is a Research Fellow at SALDRU. She holds a Masters in Applied Economics from UCT and a BCom(Hons) in Economics from UKZN. Her role at SALDRU encompasses research, largely focused on the economics of education, as well as training, communications and policy work.
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Office 3.11, The School of Economics, Middle Campus, UCT, Rondebosch, 7700
(+27) 021 650 5784
Andrew Kerr
DataFirst Senior Research Officer
Andrew is a Research Officer at DataFirst, University of Cape Town, since May 2011. Andrew obtained DPhil and Mphil degrees in Economics from theUniversity of Oxford and a BCom (Hons) and BSc from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. His previous experience includes consulting work for the World Bank (2009 and 2011); working as a Centre for the Study of African Economies research assistant and helping to run a labour market survey in Tanzania (2008-2009) and working as a consultant for the South African Competition Commission (2008).
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Office 3.46, School of Economics, Middle Campus, UCT, Rondebosch, 7700
(+27) 021 650 4952
Brendan Maughan-Brown
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Brendan Maughan-Brown is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow within SALDRU. He obtained his PhD in Economics from UCT in 2008. He subsequently co-ordinated the fifth wave of the Cape Area Panel Study. His research interests include HIV-related stigma, HIV testing, socio-demographic & economic determinants of HIV, male circumcision and concurrent sexual partnerships.
SALDRU working papers
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Office 3.04, School of Economics, Middle Campus, UCT, Rondebosch, 7700
(+27) 021 650 5695
 Mũthoni Ngatia
J-PAL Africa Post-Doctoral Fellow
Mũthoni’s research focuses on the role of social networks in individuals’ decisions. She has conducted field experiments in Malawi and Kenya examining the impact of social interactions on individuals’ decision to get tested for HIV and farmers’ decision to purchase drought insurance. She joins the Urban Services Initiative as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at J-PAL Africa in 2012 after completing a PhD at Yale University.
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Office 3.09, School of Economics, Middle Campus, UCT, Rondebosch, 7700
(+27) 021 650 4344
Bryan Plummer
J-PAL Africa Research Manager
In mid-2012, Bryan Plummer joined the J-PAL Africa headquarters in Cape Town to further support J-PAL field studies and various capacity building projects across the continent. Over the past five years he has spent time working for J-PAL on a microfinance and social networking study in India, two impact evaluations in Liberia on post-conflict peace education and ex-combatant reintegration programs, and most recently on a coffee agronomy training program evaluation in Rwanda. He has also spent substantial time at the J-PAL Global office in Cambridge developing research resources for J-PAL field researchers, as well as contributing to the partnership development team. Bryan obtained a B.A. in International Development from McGill University in 2007, with an interest in North Korean politics and Food security in East Africa.
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Office 3.16, School of Economics, Middle Campus, UCT, Rondebosch, 7700
(+27) 021 650 5981
 Vimal Ranchhod
Associate Professor at SALDRU
Vimal Ranchhod is an Associate Professor at SALDRU. He holds a PhD in Economics from University of Michigan. His research interests include labour economics, economic demography, the economics of inequality and the economics of education.
SALDRU working papers
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Office 3.23, School of Economics, Middle Campus, UCT, Rondebosch, 7700
(+27) 021 650 5866
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