Carolyn Chisadza - Research

Article Publications

Chisadza C., Chitiga-Mabugu M., Mabugu R., Nicholls N., Omotoso K.O. & Yitbarek E. (2024). "Possible Welfare Benefits of a Basic Income Support: Evidence from a benefit incidence analysis in South Africa." Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics. http://doi.org/10.1111/apce.12489.

Chisadza C., Clance M. & Gupta R. (2024). "Social Capital and Protests in the United States". Peace and Conflict Studies. Forthcoming.

Chisadza C. (2024). "Xenophobia and quality of life: evidence from South Africa." Review of Black Political Economy. https://doi.org/10.1177/00346446241289587.

Walters L., Chisadza C. & Clance M. (2024). "Slave Trades, Kinship Structures and Women's Political Participation in Africa." Kyklos, 77(3): 734-758. https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12384.

Percival,V., Oskar T Thoms.,O.T., Ben Oppenheim., B., Dane Rowlands., D., Carolyn Chisadza., C., Sara Fewer., S. et al. (2023). "The Lancet Commission on peaceful societies through health equity and gender equality." The Lancet, 402(10413): 1661-1722. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01348-X.

Chisadza C., Clance M., van der Merwe F. & Yitbarek E. (2023). "Ruggedness and Child Health Outcomes: Evidence from Burundi, Cameroon, Ethiopia and Nigeria." South African Journal of Economics, 91(4):498-527. http://doi.org/10.1111/saje.12354.

Walters L., Chisadza C. & Clance M. (2023). "The Effect of Pre-Colonial Ethnic Institutions and European Influences on Contemporary Education in sub-Saharan Africa." Journal of Development Studies, 59(10): 1469-1490. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2023.2222211.

Xeng S., Chisadza C., Gupta R. & Pierdzioch C. (2023). "Climate Shocks and Wealth Inequality in the United Kingdom: Evidence from Monthly Data". Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 30: 77771-77783. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-27342-1.

Chisadza C., Clance M., Gupta R. & Wohar M. E. (2023). "Giant Oil Discoveries and Conflict". Environment, Development and Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-023-03270-5.

Chisadza C., Nicholls N. & Yitbarek E. (2023). "The role of incentive structure in eliciting willingness to donate". Economics Letters, 224, 111005. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111005.

Biyase M. & Chisadza C. (2023). "Symmetric and asymmetric effects of financial deepening on income inequality in South Africa." Development Southern Africa, 40(5): 961-978.

Zawaira T., Chisadza C. & Clance M. (2023). "Social Institutions, Gender Attitudes and Female Labour Force Participation in sub-Saharan Africa." South African Journal of Economics, 91(2):186-213.

Chisadza C. & Biyase M. (2023). "Financial Development and Income Inequality: Evidence from Advanced, Emerging and Developing Economies." Annals of Financial Economics, 8(1): 1-27.

Chisadza C., Clance M., Sheng X. & Gupta R. (2023). "Climate Change and Inequality: Evidence from the United States". Sustainability, 15, 5322.

Chisadza C., Nicholls N. & Yitbarek E. (2023). "Inequality, Outreach, and Impact in Public Goods Contributions." The Journal of Development Studies, 59(2): 279-298.

Walters L., Bittencourt M. & Chisadza C. (2023). "Public Infrastructure Provision and Ethnic Favouritism: Evidence from South Africa." Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 31(1): 33-65.

Chisadza C., Clance M., Gupta R. & Wanke P. (2022). "Uncertainty and Tourism in Africa". Tourism Economics, 28(4):964-978.

Breitenbach M, Chisadza C. & Clance M. (2021). "The Economic Complexity Index (ECI) and output volatility: High vs low income countries". The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 31(4):566-580.,

Chisadza C. & Clance M. (2021). "Conflict Heterogeneity in Africa". South African Journal of Economics, 89(4):459-479.

Berisha E., Chisadza C., Clance M. & Gupta R. (2021). "Income inequality and oil resources: Panel evidence from the United States". Energy Policy, 159(2021) 112603.

Chisadza C., Nicholls N. & Yitbarek E. (2021) "Group identity in fairness decisions: Discrimination or inequality aversion?". Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 93(2021): 101722.

Chisadza C., Clance M. & Gupta R. (2021). "Government Effectiveness and the Covid-19 Pandemic". Sustainability, 13(6).

Chisadza C., Clance M., Mthembu T., Nicholls N. & Yitbarek E. (2021). "Online and Face-to-Face Learning: evidence from students' performance during the Covid-19 Pandemic". African Development Review, 33(S1):S114-S125.

Chisadza C. (2020). "Leaders and tenures in sub-Saharan Africa". South African Journal of Economics, 88(3):323-340.

Chisadza C. & Bittencourt M. (2019) "Economic development and democracy: the modernisation hypothesis in sub-Saharan Africa". The Social Science Journal, 56(2):243-254.

Chisadza C., Nicholls N. & Yitbarek E. (2019), "Race and gender biases in student evaluations of teachers". Economics Letters, 179(June):66-71.

Yitbarek E., Chisadza C. & Nicholls N. (2019), "Women empowerment and child obesity in Africa" in "Women and Sustainable Human Development- Empowering Women in Africa". M. Konte & Tirivayi N. (Eds). Springer International Publishing. (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14935-2).

Chisadza C. & Loots E. (2019), "Economic Growth and Quality of Life in Africa" in "Handbook of Quality of life in African Societies". Springer International Publishing. (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-15367-0#toc).

Chisadza C. & Bittencourt M. (2018), "Globalisation and Conflict: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa". International Development Policy | Revue international de politique de developpement [Online], 10.1 | 2018. (http:// journals.openedition.org/poldev/2706).

Chisadza C., Dlamini J., Gupta R. & Modise M. (2016), "The Impact of Oil Shocks on the South African Economy". Energy Sources Part B-Economics Planning and Policy, 11(8):739-745.

Book Chapters

Chisadza C. & Yitbarek E. (2024). "Globalisation and income inequality: evidence from advanced, emerging, and least developed countries" in "Economic Shocks and Globalisation: Between Deglobalisation and Slowbalisation". E. Loots (Eds). Routledge Publishers (Taylor & Francis Group). Forthcoming.

Chisadza C., Chitiga-Mabugu M. & Omotoso K.O.. (2024). "Quality of life in an open economy" in "State of the Nation-Quality of Life and Wellbeing in South Africa". V. Reddy, N. Bohler-Muller, Z. Mokomane & C. Soudien (Eds). HSRC Press. https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/state-of-the-nation-quality-of-life-and-wellbeing-in-south-africa

Zawaira T., Chisadza C., Clance M. & Gupta R. (2023). "Financial Inclusion and Gender Inequality in African countries" in "Finance for Sustainable Development in Africa". N.M. Odhiambo, E.L. Owusu & S.A. Asongu (Eds). Routledge Publishers (Taylor & Francis Group).

Industry Reports

Chisadza C., Ruiters M., van Dijk HG & Zawaira T. (2023). "To undertake a review and assessment of the current status of women in the economy in South Africa in 2022". Commission for Gender Equality.

Arya et al. (2020). "Comment: The Lancet-SIGHT Commission on peaceful societies through health and gender equality." The Lancet, 395:670-671.

Chitiga-Mabugu M., Mbanda V., Bohlmann J. & Chisadza C. (2019). "A Dynamic Regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Model For The City Of Johannesburg". City of Johannesburg.

Chisadza C. & Chisadza S.T., (2018), "An analysis of business and regulatory frameworks in Africa", Department of Public Enterprises Position Paper by the Human Sciences Research Council on the Expansion of South African State Owned Companies in South Africa.

Ngandu S. & Chisadza C., (2018), "Employer Characteristics and Youth Employment Outcomes in the Formal Sector in South Africa? An Assessment Using Administrative Tax Data", UNU-WIDER Working Paper Series No. 2018/82.

Working Papers

Chisadza C., Clance M.W., Meango R. & van Schoor C. (2025). "Women’s Agency in Conflict Settings: Evidence from Peace Agreements." Department of Economics Working Paper Series 2025-10.

Chisadza C., Clance M., Nicholls N., Yitbarek E. & Zawaira T. (2023). "Attitudes to Gender Inequality in South Africa: Evidence from Implicit and Explicit Attitudes."

Van der Merwe E., Chisadza C. & Clance M. (2020). "Government Religious Preference and Intrastate Conflict." Department of Economics Working Paper Series 2021-24.

Chisadza C & Bittencourt M. (2015). "The Fertility Transition: Panel Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa". Economic Research Southern Africa Working Paper Series 620.