Jacobus Cilliers

New Resources

Can rural public works affect agricultural wages? Evidence from India, CSAE working paper
The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities: Panel data evidence from South Africa, CSAE working paper
CSAE Research Summary 2012
Financial Architecture and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism in Tanzania, CSAE working paper
Media Freedom and Democracy: Complements or Substitutes in the Fight against Corruption?, CSAE working paper
Market Integration and Border Effects in Eastern Africa, CSAE working paper
How to improve knowledge and take-up of public services by the poor: The case of the RSBY National Health Insurance in India, iiG Briefing Paper 20

CSAE and Balliol College

Biography

Jacobus Cilliers is currently a DPhil candidate in Economics at the University of Oxford, where he passed the MPhil in Economics (with distinction) in 2010. He is teaching an applied game theory course for graduate students in Ethiopia.

His doctoral research is on the political economy of conflict, with a geographic focus on central and western Africa. In an empirical paper he looks at the effects of exposure to violence on network formation, trust and public goods provision in local communities in Sierra Leone. In a theoretical paper, he looks at the coercive relationship between armed groups and civilians in a state of anarchy, with specific focus on the civil war in Sierra Leone; and the ongoing conflict in the Kivu provinces, DRC.