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Rocco Zizzamia
Departmental Lecturer (ODID) and Research Fellow (Department of Economics)
Rocco Zizzamia is a Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at the Oxford Department of International Development and a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the Department of Economics. His research focuses on social protection and labour markets, with a particular emphasis on using experimental methods to explore how innovations in the design and delivery of social protection systems can strengthen household resilience to poverty and to extreme climate events such as droughts and floods.
Quantitative Methods (convenor)
Economics (MPhil foundation course)
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Journal articles and special issues( ) The labour market and poverty impacts of COVID-19 in South Africa . South African Journal of Economics 91(4) 419–445( ) The livelihood impacts of COVID-19 in urban South Africa: A view from below . Social Indicators Research 165 1–30( ) Snakes and Ladders and Loaded Dice: Poverty Dynamics and Inequality in South Africa, 2008 to 2017 . South African Journal of Economics 214–242( ) Are We Really Painting the Devil on the Walls? Polarization and its Drivers in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Past Two Decades . Journal of African Economies 31 (2) 124–146( ) Locked down and locked out: Repurposing social assistance as emergency relief to informal workers . World Development 139 105271( ) Is employment a panacea for poverty? A mixed-methods investigation into employment decisions in South Africa . World Development 130 104938( ) A poverty dynamics approach to social stratification: The South African case . World Development 110 88–103
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