Professor Miracle Benhura

Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Her research interests are in applied micro-econometrics with a special focus on labour and development economics. She has done work on (i) income distribution and the potential of redistributive systems in Africa, (ii) intra-household resource allocation, (iii) gender differentials in health and labour market outcomes, (iv the economics of education, (v) crime and subjective well-being, (vi) multidimensional poverty and spatial heterogeneity in well-being.