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Tim Köhler @timkohler.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Very grateful to be in Senegal 🇸🇳 for the first time this week for @j-pal.bsky.social’s Summer School on advanced randomised evaluation design. Many thanks to J-PAL, CESAG, @afd-france.bsky.social, and others for hosting me!

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UNU-WIDER @unu-wider.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Powerful insights to kick off the WIDER Development Conference! 3 key takeaways that resonated deeply: ☂️ Social protection is foundational 💼 Employment is the engine of development 💡 We need transformative thinking go.unu.edu/1bvUf #WIDERDevConf2025

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UNU-WIDER @unu-wider.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Fascinating research presented by WIDER Visiting Scholar Timothy Köhler on South Africa's social relief grant. The paper reveals cash transfers to the unemployed boosted 🔎job search 📦business attempts 💼employment though long-term effects aren't universal #WIDERDevConf2025

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UNU-WIDER @unu-wider.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

An exciting workshop at UNU-WIDER earlier this week, as researchers gathered to finetune their research plans and both hear and provide expert feedback. Follow the project, a part of @schmidtsciences.bsky.social‬ initiative on AI at work: go.unu.edu/5OVXX

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UNU-WIDER @unu-wider.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

First one of our spring 2025 Visiting Scholars to be introduced is @timkohler.bsky.social‬. Coming from @dpru-uct.bsky.social‬, he is a micro-economist focused on labour markets, social protection, and policy evaluation in lower-income countries. Meet our visitors: go.unu.edu/D0wIP

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Tim Köhler @timkohler.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

How have the returns to education evolved during the post-Apartheid era in South Africa?🇿🇦 Read about it in a new short Econ3x3 blog I’ve put together below, summarizing a 2024 RESEP paper also below. www.econ3x3.org/article/how-... Full paper for those interested: resep.sun.ac.za/wp-content/u...

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How have the returns to education evolved in post-apartheid South Africa? | Econ3x3

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Tim Köhler @timkohler.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Very grateful to be in beautiful Maastricht🇳🇱 today to present some work at @unumerit.bsky.social. Thanks for having me! If you’re interested in attending in-person or online: go.unu.edu/9zq7Q

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Tim Köhler @timkohler.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Excited to be joining @unu-wider.bsky.social in Helsinki 🇫🇮 as a Visiting Scholar for 3 months starting in April! While there, my work will focus on social protection policy & labor market inequality in lower-income countries, with a particular focus on South Africa. Very much looking forward to it!

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Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) @dpru-uct.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

In the News: 'Noncompliance with minimum wage rising, study finds' New Business Day article referencing Haroon Bhorat, @timkohler.bsky.social, and Ben Stanwix's evaluation of the labour market effects of the 2024 ⬆️ in South Africa’s🇿🇦 National Minimum Wage. www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/...

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Noncompliance with minimum wage rising, study finds

National minimum wage is a theoretical exercise that does not take cognisance of stakeholder inputs, says Neasa

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Tim Köhler @timkohler.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

🚨New paper!🚨 Now published in Energy Economics, we (w/ @HaroonBhorat) provide the 1st estimates of the labour market effects of frequent & severe power outages (known as “load shedding”) in South Africa 🇿🇦 Full (OA) paper available here: doi.org/10.1016/j.en... 🧵 below! 1/n

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Tim Köhler @timkohler.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

A great way to end the year 🎉 My paper, co-authored w/ Haroon Bhorat, on the labour market effects of SA’s🇿🇦 SRD grant is now published in World Development. We began this work back in 2020. So happy it found a good home! Full (OA) paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #EconSky

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Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) @dpru-uct.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Commissioned by SA's🇿🇦 Department of Employment and Labour, DPRU Director Prof. Haroon Bhorat, Senior Research Officer Ben Stanwix, & Junior Research Fellow Dr. @timkohler.bsky.social conducted an econometric evaluation of the labour market effects of the 2024 ⬆️ in the National Minimum Wage (NMW).

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