# GreyScienx research index 29 published studies. Each entry is a modelled, exploratory research object. Claim-level conclusions are not included in this index. ## The Economics of Living Together - Identifier: GSX:HH-001 - Question: How do early cohabitation, delayed cohabitation, and separate households compare in a Gauteng lifetime scenario? - Summary: A Gauteng lifetime scenario comparing early cohabitation, delayed cohabitation and separate households. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/economics-of-living-together - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/household-economics/economics-of-living-together/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/household-economics/economics-of-living-together ## The First Three Years Advantage - Identifier: GSX:HH-002 - Question: How can delaying rent and car ownership at the start of a career alter lifetime wealth? - Summary: How delaying rent and car ownership at the start of a career can alter lifetime wealth. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/the-first-three-years-advantage - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/household-economics/the-first-three-years-advantage/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/household-economics/the-first-three-years-advantage ## When Retirement Becomes Impossible - Identifier: GSX:POP-001 - Question: What are the demographic and financial limits of retirement at 60? - Summary: The demographic and financial limits of retirement at 60. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/when-retirement-becomes-impossible - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/population-futures/when-retirement-becomes-impossible/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/population-futures/when-retirement-becomes-impossible ## Today’s Unemployment Is Tomorrow’s Pension Crisis - Identifier: GSX:POP-002 - Question: How does youth unemployment, followed across a lifetime, become old-age dependence? - Summary: Youth unemployment followed across a lifetime and into old-age dependence. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/todays-unemployment-is-tomorrows-pension-crisis - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/population-futures/todays-unemployment-is-tomorrows-pension-crisis/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/population-futures/todays-unemployment-is-tomorrows-pension-crisis ## Does Raising the Retirement Age Actually Work? - Identifier: GSX:POP-003 - Question: Does raising the retirement age still work once youth unemployment, productivity, and disability are taken into account? - Summary: Later retirement tested against youth unemployment, productivity and disability. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/does-raising-the-retirement-age-actually-work - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/population-futures/does-raising-the-retirement-age-actually-work/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/population-futures/does-raising-the-retirement-age-actually-work ## The Politics of an Ageing Electorate - Identifier: GSX:POP-004 - Question: How can voter age structure redirect spending and intergenerational transfers? - Summary: How voter age structure can redirect spending and intergenerational transfers. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/the-politics-of-an-ageing-electorate - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/population-futures/the-politics-of-an-ageing-electorate/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/population-futures/the-politics-of-an-ageing-electorate ## Emergency Ageing Austerity - Identifier: GSX:POP-005 - Question: Which policy packages for closing an ageing-related fiscal deficit are examined for lower welfare loss? - Summary: Policy packages for closing an ageing-related fiscal deficit with lower welfare loss. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/emergency-ageing-austerity - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/population-futures/emergency-ageing-austerity/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/population-futures/emergency-ageing-austerity ## The Price of Another Child - Identifier: GSX:POP-006 - Question: When does fertility support become cheaper than financing demographic decline? - Summary: When fertility support becomes cheaper than financing demographic decline. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/the-price-of-another-child - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/population-futures/the-price-of-another-child/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/population-futures/the-price-of-another-child ## The Hundred-Year Life - Identifier: GSX:POP-007 - Question: How would education, work, housing, and family life be redesigned for lives of 100 to 120 years? - Summary: Education, work, housing and family life redesigned for 100–120 year lives. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/the-hundred-year-life - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/population-futures/the-hundred-year-life/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/population-futures/the-hundred-year-life ## Inheritance After Retirement - Identifier: GSX:POP-008 - Question: What is the economic difference when inheritance arrives at 40, 55, 70, or 85? - Summary: The economic value of inheritance arriving at 40, 55, 70 or 85. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/inheritance-after-retirement - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/population-futures/inheritance-after-retirement/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/population-futures/inheritance-after-retirement ## How to Shrink a Country Without Breaking It - Identifier: GSX:POP-009 - Question: What happens to housing, cities, and public infrastructure under population contraction? - Summary: Housing, cities and public infrastructure under population contraction. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/how-to-shrink-a-country-without-breaking-it - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/population-futures/how-to-shrink-a-country-without-breaking-it/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/population-futures/how-to-shrink-a-country-without-breaking-it ## The Scarce-Worker Economy - Identifier: GSX:POP-010 - Question: Can automation, productivity, and immigration substitute for missing workers? - Summary: Automation, productivity and immigration as substitutes for missing workers. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/the-scarce-worker-economy - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/population-futures/the-scarce-worker-economy/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/population-futures/the-scarce-worker-economy ## The Population System - Identifier: GSX:POP-011 - Question: How do the population studies connect as one policy system? - Summary: A synthesis of the ten population studies as one connected policy system. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/the-population-system - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/population-futures/the-population-system/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/population-futures/the-population-system ## Extreme Fiscal Pressure - Identifier: GSX:POP-012 - Question: How could emergency government measures introduced in 2050 alter the population system? - Summary: How emergency government measures introduced in 2050 could alter the population system. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/extreme-fiscal-pressure - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/population-futures/extreme-fiscal-pressure/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/population-futures/extreme-fiscal-pressure ## The R350 Industrialisation Counterfactual - Identifier: GSX:SRD-001 - Question: What productive-capital alternative to repeated emergency cash transfers does the R350 counterfactual examine? - Summary: The productive-capital alternative to repeated emergency cash transfers. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/the-r350-industrialisation-counterfactual - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/r350-counterfactual/the-r350-industrialisation-counterfactual/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/r350-counterfactual/the-r350-industrialisation-counterfactual ## The Welfare Cost of Not Paying the Grant - Identifier: GSX:SRD-002 - Question: What poverty, consumption, and social costs does the industrialisation counterfactual leave out when the grant is not paid? - Summary: The poverty, consumption and social cost omitted from the industrialisation counterfactual. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/the-welfare-cost-of-not-paying-the-grant - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/r350-counterfactual/the-welfare-cost-of-not-paying-the-grant/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/r350-counterfactual/the-welfare-cost-of-not-paying-the-grant ## Consumption Today or Productive Capital Tomorrow? - Identifier: GSX:SRD-003 - Question: What is the timing and distributional trade-off between relief today and productive capital tomorrow? - Summary: The timing and distributional trade-off between relief and investment. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/consumption-today-or-productive-capital-tomorrow - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/r350-counterfactual/consumption-today-or-productive-capital-tomorrow/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/r350-counterfactual/consumption-today-or-productive-capital-tomorrow ## The Public-Capital Multiplier - Identifier: GSX:SRD-004 - Question: When do state-financed productive assets generate durable economic capacity? - Summary: When state-financed productive assets generate durable economic capacity. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/the-public-capital-multiplier - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/r350-counterfactual/the-public-capital-multiplier/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/r350-counterfactual/the-public-capital-multiplier ## The R200 Billion Factory - Identifier: GSX:SRD-005 - Question: What industrial deployment does a scenario at the scale of the grant programme describe? - Summary: A concrete industrial deployment scenario at the scale of the grant programme. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/the-r200-billion-factory - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/r350-counterfactual/the-r200-billion-factory/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/r350-counterfactual/the-r200-billion-factory ## The South African Critical Minerals Industrial Complex - Identifier: GSX:IND-001 - Question: How could South African mineral endowment be converted into industrial depth? - Summary: An integrated strategy for converting mineral endowment into industrial depth. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/the-south-african-critical-minerals-industrial-complex - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/strategic-industrialisation/the-south-african-critical-minerals-industrial-complex/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/strategic-industrialisation/the-south-african-critical-minerals-industrial-complex ## The Platinum-to-Hydrogen Economy - Identifier: GSX:IND-002 - Question: How can platinum reserves connect to a hydrogen industrial base? - Summary: A value-chain model connecting platinum reserves to a hydrogen industrial base. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/the-platinum-to-hydrogen-economy - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/strategic-industrialisation/the-platinum-to-hydrogen-economy/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/strategic-industrialisation/the-platinum-to-hydrogen-economy ## The Manganese-to-Battery Economy - Identifier: GSX:IND-003 - Question: What route runs from manganese extraction to higher-value battery production? - Summary: A route from mineral extraction to higher-value battery production. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/the-manganese-to-battery-economy - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/strategic-industrialisation/the-manganese-to-battery-economy/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/strategic-industrialisation/the-manganese-to-battery-economy ## The Vanadium Grid-Storage Economy - Identifier: GSX:IND-004 - Question: Can domestic grid storage anchor a vanadium industry? - Summary: Domestic grid storage as an anchor market for vanadium industrialisation. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/the-vanadium-grid-storage-economy - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/strategic-industrialisation/the-vanadium-grid-storage-economy/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/strategic-industrialisation/the-vanadium-grid-storage-economy ## The Capital-Goods Economy - Identifier: GSX:IND-005 - Question: What equipment, capabilities, and supplier networks sit behind durable industrialisation? - Summary: The equipment, capabilities and supplier networks behind durable industrialisation. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/the-capital-goods-economy - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/strategic-industrialisation/the-capital-goods-economy/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/strategic-industrialisation/the-capital-goods-economy ## The Mineral Sovereign Wealth Fund - Identifier: GSX:IND-006 - Question: What fiscal architecture converts exhaustible mineral resources into permanent public wealth? - Summary: A fiscal architecture for converting exhaustible resources into permanent public wealth. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/the-mineral-sovereign-wealth-fund - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/strategic-industrialisation/the-mineral-sovereign-wealth-fund/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/strategic-industrialisation/the-mineral-sovereign-wealth-fund ## South Africa in a Richer Africa - Identifier: GSX:AFR-001 - Question: What are the macroeconomic consequences for South Africa of broad African income convergence? - Summary: The macroeconomic consequences of broad African income convergence. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/south-africa-in-a-richer-africa - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/african-convergence/south-africa-in-a-richer-africa/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/african-convergence/south-africa-in-a-richer-africa ## Johannesburg as Africa’s Financial Capital - Identifier: GSX:AFR-002 - Question: Under what conditions could Johannesburg finance a continent-scale economy? - Summary: The conditions under which Johannesburg could finance a continent-scale economy. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/johannesburg-as-africas-financial-capital - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/african-convergence/johannesburg-as-africas-financial-capital/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/african-convergence/johannesburg-as-africas-financial-capital ## The Factory for African Urbanisation - Identifier: GSX:AFR-003 - Question: How can South African production serve the infrastructure of African city growth? - Summary: South African production positioned around the infrastructure of African city growth. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/the-factory-for-african-urbanisation - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/african-convergence/the-factory-for-african-urbanisation/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/african-convergence/the-factory-for-african-urbanisation ## Inherited Geography - Identifier: GSX:WPL-001 - Question: How does South Africa's unequal property geography continue to compound into differences in wealth? - Summary: How South Africa’s unequal property geography continues to compound into differences in wealth. - Evidence status: Modelled - JSON: https://greyscienx.com/api/v1/research/inherited-geography - Markdown: https://greyscienx.com/research/wealth-and-place/inherited-geography/markdown - Page: https://greyscienx.com/research/wealth-and-place/inherited-geography