Justine Burns is a South Africaneconomist who is director of the School of Economics at theUniversity of Cape Town (UCT), where she is also a professor. She is a research associate at the university's Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) and Research Unit in Behavioural Economics and Neuroeconomics (RUBEN).[1]
Justine Burns | |
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| Occupation | Professor at theUniversity of Cape Town |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Massachusetts at Amherst(PhD, 2004) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Economics |
| Sub-discipline | Behavioural economics |
| Main interests | Experimental economics,social trust andprosocial behaviour,labour markets,inequality andintergenerational mobility |
Burns's research interests, primarily inbehavioural economics, includediscrimination,trust andsocial capital,social networks andlabour markets, andintergenerational mobility. She has also published research aboutsocial assistance programmes. She received UCT's Distinguished Teacher Award in 2006[2] and was admitted to theAcademy of Science of South Africa in October 2021.[3]
References
edit- ^"Justine Burns".SALDRU. Retrieved27 May 2023.
- ^"Distinguished Teacher Award".University of Cape Town. Retrieved27 May 2023.
- ^"Top Scholars in South Africa Honoured".ASSAf. 21 October 2021. Retrieved27 May 2023.
External links
edit- Justine Burns publications indexed byGoogle Scholar
- Prof Justine Burns at University of Cape Town