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NIDS Discussion Papers

With each subsequent Wave, SALDRU commissioned a set of Discussion Papers; these analytical papers continue to focus on some of the important socio-economic issues in South Africa.
Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development (PSLSD)

During 1992 the World Bank approached the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), School of Economics, University of Cape Town, to coordinate a study in South Africa called the Project on Statistics ...

Understanding the National Student Financial Aid Scheme

Southern African Labour and Development Unit (2017-02)

This factsheet was developed as a compendium to the F(r)ee Higher Education sheet. Recognizing that NSFAS loans are currently the government’s key strategy to facilitate higher education access among low-income students, ...
F(r)ee Higher Education: A School of Economics engagement

School of Economics, University of Cape Town (2017-02)

In October 2016, students’ request for free higher education again dominated South Africa’s political and public agenda. In an attempt to facilitate and contribute to the much-needed conversations on the topic, students ...
The dynamics of poverty in the first four waves of NIDS

Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray (2016-08)

We analyse the determinants of South Africans moving into and out of poverty over the first four waves of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) for the years 2008 to 2014/2015. We focus on the balanced panel of NIDS ...