We investigate household electricity access in a poor rural setting in South Africa, showing that the acquisition of connections is not the simple monotonic process often assumed in the literature. We argue that changes ...

This paper explores the relationship between child nutrition and schooling outcomes using data from the National Income Dynamics Survey (NIDS) panel data. The recent release of the NIDS panel data from 2008-2015 presents ...

Although poverty may be most extreme among those without formal sector employment and hence incomes, it also extends to large numbers of wage earners. Thus attempts to alleviate poverty usually emphasize employment generation ...

The threat of climate change and the resultant catastrophic weather events across the globe underpin the need for a shift away from carbon-intensive modes of production. In South Africa, where the generation of electricity ...

Background The tobacco industry claims that illicit cigarette trade in South Africa is high and rising. This is often used as an argument not to increase the tobacco excise tax. Objectives To determine how the industry’s ...

Graduate Destination Studies have the potential to provide detailed information about graduate transitions to work that cannot easily be collected in household surveys. However, response rates are typically very low and ...

This paper uses data collected across the five waves of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), covering 2008-2017, to update a measure of social cohesion for South Africa. This updating exercise is important in validating ...