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Justine Burns
Justine Burns
Occupation	Professor at the University 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 and prosocial behaviour, labour markets, inequality and intergenerational mobility

Justine Burns is a South African economist who is director of the School of Economics at the University 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]

Burns's research interests, primarily in behavioural economics, include discrimination, trust and social capital, social networks and labour markets, and intergenerational mobility. She has also published research about social assistance programmes. She received UCT's Distinguished Teacher Award in 2006^[2] and was admitted to the Academy of Science of South Africa in October 2021.^[3]

References

^ "Justine Burns". SALDRU. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
^ "Distinguished Teacher Award". University of Cape Town. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
^ "Top Scholars in South Africa Honoured". ASSAf. 21 October 2021. Retrieved 27 May 2023.