Justine Burns
Biographic Data
| ID | 4231085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justine Burns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justine |
| FAMILY NAME | Burns |
| SIGNATURE | BURNS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9957-7210 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Exploring Perceptions of Advantage and Attitudes Towards Redistribution in South Africa
Tackling inequalities and poverty in South Africa has proven extremely difficult and contentious. Indeed, redistribution policies are often widely criticized both by people who argue that these policies are not far‐reaching and comprehensive enough and by those who argue they are not justified, too large‐scale and/or ineffective, and should be scaled back. While public support amongst relatively advantaged South Africans is crucial for these redi…
Parental bargaining and rural–urban child health differential in Tanzania
This paper extends the empirical analysis of child health by simultaneously considering the effects and contributions of parental bargaining to the rural–urban child health differential in Tanzania, a country where most communities are patriarchal in nature. We use the Heckman two-step procedure to correct for possible sample selection bias. The results suggest that domestic violence towards female partners increases the probability of child stun…
The parent trap: Cash transfers and the intergenerational transmission of depressive symptoms in South Africa
Washing with hope: Evidence of improved handwashing among children in South Africa from a pilot study of a novel soap technology
NCT03280771 ( www.clinicaltrials.gov ) retrospectively registered on 8 September 2017
Prosocial spending and well-being: Cross-cultural evidence for a psychological universal
This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: Human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to help others (prosocial spending). In Study 1, survey data from 136 countries were examined and showed that prosocial spending is associated with greater happiness around the world, in poor and rich countries alike. To test for causality, in Studies 2a and 2b, we used exper…
Inheriting the Future: Intergenerational Persistence of Educational Status in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
This paper examines the changes in the educational attainment of three successive generations in South Africa: grandparents, parents and children. Many of the results accord with widely known facts, such as the educational penalty faced by individuals who are African or who live in rural areas or in female-headed households. Similarly, the larger impact of mother's education on child outcomes relative to father's education accords with previous w…
Two Sides of the Same Coin: Re-examining Nepotism and Discrimination in a Segmented Society
We report the results from a series of trust games designed to distinguish racial discrimination from racial nepotism, played with a sample of high school students in Cape Town, South Africa. In contrast to the original work in this regard by Fershtman et al. (2005 Fershtman, C., Gneezy, U. and Verboven, F. 2005. “Discrimination and Nepotism: the efficiency of the anonymity rule,”. Journal of Legal Studies, 34: 371–396. [Crossref], [Web of Scienc…
Social assistance, gender, and the aged in South Africa
This paper reviews the history of the noncontributory social pension in South Africa, as well as recent work on the distributional and poverty-alleviating effects of this program. The pension has a strong gender dimension, reaching three times as many women as men, and has an unambiguous impact on reducing household poverty, particularly among Black South African households. The existing literature also suggests that the pension reaches unintende…
Prosocial spending and well-being: Cross-cultural evidence for a psychological universal
This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: Human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to help others (prosocial spending). In Study 1, survey data from 136 countries were examined and showed that prosocial spending is associated with greater happiness around the world, in poor and rich countries alike. To test for causality, in Studies 2a and 2b, we used exper…
Social assistance, gender, and the aged in South Africa
This paper reviews the history of the noncontributory social pension in South Africa, as well as recent work on the distributional and poverty-alleviating effects of this program. The pension has a strong gender dimension, reaching three times as many women as men, and has an unambiguous impact on reducing household poverty, particularly among Black South African households. The existing literature also suggests that the pension reaches unintende…
The parent trap: Cash transfers and the intergenerational transmission of depressive symptoms in South Africa
Inheriting the Future: Intergenerational Persistence of Educational Status in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
This paper examines the changes in the educational attainment of three successive generations in South Africa: grandparents, parents and children. Many of the results accord with widely known facts, such as the educational penalty faced by individuals who are African or who live in rural areas or in female-headed households. Similarly, the larger impact of mother's education on child outcomes relative to father's education accords with previous w…
Social assistance, gender, and the aged in South Africa
This paper reviews the history of the noncontributory social pension in South Africa, as well as recent work on the distributional and poverty-alleviating effects of this program. The pension has a strong gender dimension, reaching three times as many women as men, and has an unambiguous impact on reducing household poverty, particularly among Black South African households. The existing literature also suggests that the pension reaches unintende…
Inheriting the Future: Intergenerational Persistence of Educational Status in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
This paper examines the changes in the educational attainment of three successive generations in South Africa: grandparents, parents and children. Many of the results accord with widely known facts, such as the educational penalty faced by individuals who are African or who live in rural areas or in female-headed households. Similarly, the larger impact of mother's education on child outcomes relative to father's education accords with previous w…
Two Sides of the Same Coin: Re-examining Nepotism and Discrimination in a Segmented Society
We report the results from a series of trust games designed to distinguish racial discrimination from racial nepotism, played with a sample of high school students in Cape Town, South Africa. In contrast to the original work in this regard by Fershtman et al. (2005 Fershtman, C., Gneezy, U. and Verboven, F. 2005. “Discrimination and Nepotism: the efficiency of the anonymity rule,”. Journal of Legal Studies, 34: 371–396. [Crossref], [Web of Scienc…
Prosocial spending and well-being: Cross-cultural evidence for a psychological universal
This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: Human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to help others (prosocial spending). In Study 1, survey data from 136 countries were examined and showed that prosocial spending is associated with greater happiness around the world, in poor and rich countries alike. To test for causality, in Studies 2a and 2b, we used exper…
Washing with hope: Evidence of improved handwashing among children in South Africa from a pilot study of a novel soap technology
NCT03280771 ( www.clinicaltrials.gov ) retrospectively registered on 8 September 2017
The parent trap: Cash transfers and the intergenerational transmission of depressive symptoms in South Africa
Parental bargaining and rural–urban child health differential in Tanzania
This paper extends the empirical analysis of child health by simultaneously considering the effects and contributions of parental bargaining to the rural–urban child health differential in Tanzania, a country where most communities are patriarchal in nature. We use the Heckman two-step procedure to correct for possible sample selection bias. The results suggest that domestic violence towards female partners increases the probability of child stun…
Exploring Perceptions of Advantage and Attitudes Towards Redistribution in South Africa
Tackling inequalities and poverty in South Africa has proven extremely difficult and contentious. Indeed, redistribution policies are often widely criticized both by people who argue that these policies are not far‐reaching and comprehensive enough and by those who argue they are not justified, too large‐scale and/or ineffective, and should be scaled back. While public support amongst relatively advantaged South Africans is crucial for these redi…
Economics (6 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Demography (2 works) · Demography (2 works)