Institution
University of Cape Town
Position
Associate Professor, School of Economics
Name
Andrew
Surname
Kerr
Short CV

Education: DPhil and MPhil in Economics, University of Oxford. BCom (hons) and BSc, University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Previous Experience: Senior Research Officer, DataFirst; Lecturer: UCT Economics; Short term consultant for the World Bank (2009 and 2011); Centre for the Study of African Economies Research Assistant (2008-2009); Consultant, South African Competition Commission (2008).

Research: The Returns to Formality and Informality in Urban Africa; The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities in KwaZulu-Natal; Comparative Advantage with Matching in the Urban Tanzanian Labour Market.

Grants and Awards: Exploratory Grant from the Private Enterprise Development in Low Income Countries research initiative, 2012 (with Martin Wittenberg); Centre for the Study of African Economies DPhil Scholarship, 2009; Rhodes Scholarship, KwaZulu-Natal Constituency, 2005.

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