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An analysis of out of school youth who have not completed matric: what can available data tell us? (2018-11)This short report, commissioned by the IPSS Youth Focus Project funded by the Ford Foundation, investigates the extent to which available public data can inform trajectories of post-school youth and the critical gaps that ...
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(2012)This paper provides a brief summary of some key descriptive findings about child grants from the first two waves of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS). Wave 1 was conducted in 2008 and Wave 2 in 2010/11. The paper ...
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(2013-12)How much volatility is there in earnings in South Africa? The South African labour market has been shown to be a key determinant of welfare, both in terms of poverty and inequality. These are a function of both the high ...
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(2013-12)Differential education expenditure by racial group was a pillar in the architecture of apartheid. School systems diverged by racial group, with large funding and curriculum differences (Fiske and Ladd, 2004). In 1994, ...
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(2013-12)This study evaluates food expenditure patterns in South Africa using the Engel framework which states that proportions spent on food fall with income. Non-parametric methods are used to estimate Engel curves, and regression ...
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(2006-12)Health status and socioeconomic status are important determinants of individuals’ wellbeing. Information on income alone, or on health alone, provides a less complete picture. Better health can lead to higher income, and ...
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(2009-07)Health status and socioeconomic status are important determinants of individuals’ wellbeing. Information on income alone, or on health alone, provides a less complete picture. Better health can lead to higher income, and ...
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(2015-04)Background: HIV counselling and testing (HCT) is a critical component of HIV prevention and treatment efforts. Between April 2010 and June 2011 South Africa ran an ambitious, multi-sector, campaign aiming to test 15 million ...
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(2018-08)PLEASE NOTE: This paper has been updated. Background: Mental health data is seldom available in low-income countries in Africa, and estimates of the size of the intergenerational transmission of depression in these ...
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(2009-07)This paper investigates measures of migration captured in the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), and it compares these measures, and how information is collected, with other household surveys conducted in South Africa. ...
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(2013-12)How much income mobility was there in South Africa between 2008 and 2012? Did this mobility serve to equalise or disequalise longer-term measures of income? In this paper we address the first question by assessing the ...
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(2018-08)Please note: This paper has been updated. Cash transfers are a well-known tool in the developing world to alleviate poverty. However, much of the research evaluating these programs has focussed on short term outcomes, ...
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(2015-11)It is well established that household food security is a complex phenomenon with numerous indicators and outcomes, the measurement of which is yet to be adequately captured by a single measure. We propose the adoption of ...
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The parent trap: Cash transfers and the intergenerational transmission of depression in South Africa (2018-08)Please Note: This paper has been updated. Mental illness and substance abuse make up the leading cause of disability among adolescents around the world, and yet adolescent mental health is an understudied area in developing ...
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(2019-09)While there are 11 official languages in South Africa, English remains the dominant language in the country’s economic and political sphere. Internationally, there is a large body of research providing evidence that ...
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(2019-02)This policy brief provides an overview of the evidence on the precarious connection between youth and the labour market in South Africa. Drawing on almost 10 years of data collected by the National Income Dynamics Study ...
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(2013-12)This paper discusses the changing profile of rural livelihoods in South Africa using the National Income Dynamics Study Waves 1 – 3 data (Southern Africa Labour & Development Research Unit (SALDRU), 2013a, 2013b, 2013c). ...
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(2015-10)This paper examines the survival strategies of the unemployed using the balanced panel of the first three waves of the National Income Dynamics Study. We find that in response to unemployment and almost no unemployment ...
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(2013-12)In comparison to other continents, Africa has received little scholarly attention with regard to household composition. Household composition is endogenous to a variety of welfare issues and little is understood about the ...
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