Presentations

Recovering School Value-Added from School-Set Marks: How Lenient Grading Hides Learning Inequality
Peter Courtney
2026/10/14
QER Conference
Stellenbosch

Making School-Set Marks Comparable: Does Lenient Grading Buy a Better Secondary School?
Peter Courtney
2026/09/30
Economics Lunch Seminar
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Common Currency: Making school-set grades comparable, and sorting on the exchange rate of learning
Peter Courtney
2026/09/01
RESEP Brown Bag Lunch
Stellenbosch University

Smaller Classes with Fewer Teachers: Identifying the costs of teacher misallocation in South Africa
Peter Courtney
2026/04/08
FAIR Coffee Meeting
NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen

Education Policy for Inclusive Economic Growth During Fiscal Consolidation
Peter Courtney
2026/03/23
SSA-TIED Phase II Close-Out Conference

Smaller Classes with Fewer Teachers: Identifying the costs of teacher misallocation in South Africa
Peter Courtney
2026/03/11
DPhil Research Development Seminar
Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford

Invisible Borders — Persisting Scars: How the Former Bantustans Reproduce Learning Inequality
Peter Courtney
2026/03/04
Oxford South Africa Discussion Group

Smaller Classes with Fewer Teachers: Teacher Misallocation in South African Primary Schools
Peter Courtney
2026/02/03
Oxford CSAE workshop

Smaller Classes, Fewer Teachers: Quantifying the Cost of Teacher Misallocation
Peter Courtney
2025/11/26
SALDRU UCT

Smaller Classes, Fewer Teachers: Quantifying the Cost of Teacher Misallocation
Peter Courtney
2025/11/25
RESEP Brown Bag Lunch
Stellenbosch University
Smaller Classes, Fewer Teachers: Quantifying the Cost of Teacher Misallocation
Peter Courtney
2025/10/15
Economics Lunch Seminar
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Invisible Borders—Persisting Scars: How the Apartheid Bantustans Define Contemporary South Africa
Peter Courtney
2025/07/28
World Economic History Congress, session “Unearthing the Roots of Inequality”
Lund University
Education Policy for Inclusive Economic Growth During Fiscal Consolidation
Peter Courtney
2025/06/12
Research, Monitoring and Evaluation
Department of Basic Education
Education Policy for Inclusive Economic Growth During Fiscal Consolidation
Peter Courtney
2025/05/09
SA-TIED – Operation Vulindlela
Government Technical Advisory Centre Webinar

Education Policy for Inclusive Economic Growth During Fiscal Consolidation
Peter Courtney
2024/10/03
SA-TIED – Operation Vulindlela
SA Treasury – Economic Policy Staff Seminars

Education Policy Towards Inclusive Economic Growth During Fiscal Consolidation: Reflections on a Report Produced for National Treasury’s Operation Vulindlela
Peter Courtney
2024/07/30
RESEP Brown Bag Lunch
Stellenbosch University
Land Value Tax and a Land Reparations Dividend for South Africa (workshop)
Peter Courtney
2024/06
Geoist Institute Summer Conference
Château de Villers, France
Invisible Borders—Persisting Scars: How the Apartheid Bantustans Define Contemporary South Africa
Peter Courtney
2024/03/20
VU Seminar

Invisible Borders—Persisting Scars: How the Apartheid Homelands Define Contemporary South Africa
Peter Courtney
2023/09/29
15th Swedish Economic History Meeting
Lund University
Invisible Borders—Persisting Scars: How the Apartheid Homelands Define Contemporary South Africa
Peter Courtney
2023/07/19
3rd Pretoria–Stellenbosch PhD Workshop in Economics
Stellenbosch University
Class Sizes and Learner–Educator Ratios: Descriptive Statistics of Student–Teacher Allocation Efficiency Ratios
Peter Courtney
2023/05/09
RESEP Brown Bag Lunch
Stellenbosch University
Mathematical Stunting in South Africa: An Analysis of Grade 5 Mathematics Outcomes in TIMSS 2015 and 2019
Nic Spaull, Peter Courtney, Jess Qvist
2022/10/18
RESEP Brown Bag Lunch
Stellenbosch University
Spatial Inequality and the Former Homelands: An Application of Administrative Education Data
Peter Courtney
2022/05/27
Spatial Economics Workshop
Stellenbosch University