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Murray Leibbrandt is affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences with a significant emphasis on income, poverty, and inequality. Their scholarly work spans several interrelated fields including sociology and political science, safety research, economics and econometrics, modeling and simulation, and general health professions.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth

Leibbrandt has contributed to various publication venues, often collaborating in outlets such as:

  • Working Paper Series
  • British Journal of Sociology
  • World Development
  • Scientific African
  • Journal of Applied Youth Studies

The recent papers produced by Leibbrandt and their collaborators include:

  • "Locked down and locked out: Repurposing social assistance as emergency relief to informal workers" (2020, World Development)
  • "Spatial inequality through the prism of a pandemic: Covid-19 in South Africa" (2021, Scientific African)
  • "Why Is Youth Unemployment So Intractable in South Africa? A Synthesis of Evidence at the Micro-Level" (2020, Journal of Applied Youth Studies)
  • "Snakes and ladders and loaded dice: Poverty dynamics and inequality in South Africa between 2008 and 2017" (2022, South African Journal of Economics)
  • "Age, employment and labour force participation outcomes in COVID-era South Africa" (2022, Development Southern Africa)

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Vimal Ranchhod
  • Muna Shifa
  • Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón
  • Mary Zhang
  • Ihsaan Bassier

Murray Leibbrandt's research integrates multiple dimensions of social and economic studies to address pressing issues related to poverty, inequality, labor markets, and the societal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa. This multidisciplinary focus underscores their engagement with both empirical data and policy-relevant questions in the social sciences.

Best Publications

  • Trends in South African Income Distribution and Poverty since the Fall of Apartheid

    Murray Leibbrandt;Ingrid Woolard;Arden Finn;Jonathan Argent

  • Describing and decomposing post-apartheid income inequality in South Africa

    Murray Leibbrandt;Arden Finn;Ingrid Woolard

  • Measuring Poverty in South Africa

    Ingrid Woolard;Murray Leibbrandt

  • Schooling as a Lottery: Racial Differences in School Advancement in Urban South Africa

    David Lam;Cally Ardington;Murray Leibbrandt

  • Measuring recent changes in South African inequality and poverty using 1996 and 2001 census data

    Murray Leibbrandt;Laura Poswell;Pranushka Naidoo;Matthew Welch

  • Distance decay and persistent health care disparities in South Africa.

    Zoë M McLaren;Cally Ardington;Murray Leibbrandt

  • Understanding Contemporary Household Inequality in South Africa

    Murray Leibbrandt;Haroon Bhorat;Ingrid Woolard

  • The financial impact of HIV/AIDS on poor households in South Africa.

    Daryl L Collins;Murray Leibbrandt

  • Incomes in South Africa Since the Fall of Apartheid

    Murray Leibbrandt;James Levinsohn;Justin McCrary

  • Incomes in South Africa Since the Fall of Apartheid

    Murray Leibbrandt;James A. Levinsohn;James A. Levinsohn;Justin McCrary;Justin McCrary

  • Linking poverty and income shocks to risky sexual behaviour: evidence from a panel study of young adults in Cape Town

    Taryn Dinkelman;David Lam;Murray Leibbrandt

  • Social assistance, gender, and the aged in South Africa

    Justine Burns;Malcolm Keswell;Murray Leibbrandt

  • Orphanhood and Schooling in South Africa: Trends in the Vulnerability of Orphans between 1993 and 2005

    Cally Ardington;Murray Leibbrandt

  • Household and community income, economic shocks and risky sexual behavior of young adults: evidence from the Cape Area Panel Study 2002 and 2005

    Taryn Dinkelman;David Lam;Murray Leibbrandt

  • Measuring Inequality by Asset Indices: A General Approach with Application to South Africa

    Martin Wittenberg;Murray Leibbrandt

  • A poverty dynamics approach to social stratification: The South African case

    Simone Schotte;Rocco Zizzamia;Rocco Zizzamia;Murray Leibbrandt

  • A comparison of poverty in South Africa's nine provinces

    Murray Leibbrandt;Ingrid Woolard

  • The contribution of income components to income inequality in the rural former homelands of South Africa: a decomposable Gini analysis

    Murray Leibbrandt;C. Woolard;I. Woolard

  • Modelling Vulnerability and Low Earnings in the South African Labour Market

    Haroon Bhorat;Murray Leibbrandt

  • The evolution and impact of unconditional cash transfers in South Africa

    Ingrid Woolard;Murray Leibbrandt

  • Fifteen Years On: Household Incomes in South Africa

    Murray Leibbrandt;James Levinsohn

Frequent Co-Authors

David Lam
David Lam University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Nicoli Nattrass
Nicoli Nattrass University of Cape Town
Till Bärnighausen
Till Bärnighausen Heidelberg University
Mike Savage
Mike Savage London School of Economics and Political Science

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