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Labor market discrimination and sorting: Evidence from South Africa

Abel, Martin (2017-05)

Using a unique data set of classified ads in South Africa, I explore whether employers discriminate against immigrants in the hiring process. I develop a quasi-experimental method to estimate discrimination exploiting ...
Public pensions and elderly informal employment: Evidence from a change in retirement age in South Africa

Tondini, Alessandro; Ardington, Cally; Woolard, Ingrid (2017-05)

We investigate the impact of a reform of the public, non-contributory pension system in South Africa, which lowered the age of retirement from 65 to 60 for men only. Despite no explicit requirement to stop working when ...
Gender and birth order effects on intra-household schooling choices and education attainments in Kenya

Wamalwa, Fredrick; Burns, Justine (2017-04)

In this paper, we investigate the effect of two important family characteristics - gender and birth order- on intra-household investments in, and educational outcomes of, children in Kenya. We measure intra-household ...