Browsing WORKING PAPERS by Subject "NIDS"

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  • The dynamics of poverty in the first three waves of NIDS 
    Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray (2013-12)
    We use the first three waves of data from the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) to analyse poverty dynamics in South Africa between 2008 and 2012. Restricting ourselves to the sub-sample of balanced panel respondents, ...
  • Earnings volatility in South Africa 
    Ranchhod, Vimal (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 ...
  • Educational expenditure in South Africa: Evidence from the National Income Dynamics Study 
    Branson, Nicola; Kekana, Dineo; Lam, David (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, ...
  • Food expenditure patterns in South Africa: Evidence from the NIDS 
    Mhlongo, Vukile; Daniels, Reza Che (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 ...
  • Health: Analysis of the NIDS Wave 1 and 2 Datasets 
    Ardington, Cally; Gasealahwe, Boingotlo (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2012-05)
    This report examines the health data from the second wave of the NIDS with a view to assessing the strengths and weakness of the data and highlighting the potential of the NIDS panel for the analysis of the relationship ...
  • Income mobility in South Africa: Evidence from the first two waves of the National Income Dynamics Study 
    Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray; Levinsohn, James (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2012-05)
    As is clear from the title of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), one of the major reasons for undertaking South Africa's first national panel study has been to gain an understanding of income mobility. In 2008, a ...
  • Increasing access to HIV testing: Impacts on equity of coverage and uptake from a national campaign in South Africa 
    Maughan-Brown, Brendan; Lloyd, Neil; Bor, Jacob; Venkataramani, Atheendar (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 ...
  • Labour market: Analysis of the NIDS wave 1 and 2 datasets 
    Cichello, Paul; Leibbrandt, Murray; Woolard, Ingrid (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2012)
    This paper provides a brief summary of key labour market outcomes in Wave 2 of NIDS and also examines labour market transitions that occurred between Wave 1 and Wave 2. This corresponds approximately to changes between ...
  • Mobility and Inequality in the First Three Waves of NIDS 
    Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray (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 ...
  • More than just a black-board: Cash transfers and adolescent education in South Africa 
    Eyal, Katherine; Woolard, Ingrid; Burns, Justine (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, ...
  • Moving out and moving in: Evidence of short-term household change in South Africa from the National Income Dynamics Study 
    Grieger, Lloyd; Williamson, April; Leibbrandt, Murray; Levinsohn, James (2013-08)
    We use longitudinal data from the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) to document the extent of recent short-term residential and household compositional change in South Africa. We analyze the demographic correlates of ...
  • New evidence on subjective wellbeing and the definition of unemployment in South Africa 
    Lloyd, Neil; Leibbrandt, Murray (2013-05)
    Access to new nationally-representative, individual-level panel data from South Africa has allowed for the revalidation of Kingdon and Knight’s (2006) discussion on the definition of unemployment. This paper investigates ...
  • Returns to English skills in the South African labour market 
    Kahn, Amy; Branson, Nicola; Leibbrandt, Murray (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 ...
  • Rural Livelihoods in South Africa 
    Daniels, Reza Che; Partridge, Andrew; Kekana, Dineo; Musundwa, Sibongile (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). ...
  • Unemployment and Household formation 
    Ebrahim, Amina; Woolard, Ingrid; Leibbrandt, Murray (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 ...
  • Wealth in the National Income Dynamics Study Wave 2 
    Daniels, Reza Che; Finn, Arden; Musundwa, Sibongile (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2012-05)
    This document investigates the composition and distribution of individual and household wealth in the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) Wave 2 dataset (SALDRU, 2010-2011). The NIDS Wave 2 instrument marks the first ...

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