Reza Che Daniels is Associate Professor in the School of Economics, University of Cape Town. He was one of the Principal Investigators of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), South Africa's first nationally representative longitudinal household survey. He is also one of the Principal Investigators of the NIDS-Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS-CRAM), which uses a sub-sample of the NIDS to monitor the impact of COVID-19 in South Africa.