Browsing 2000 - 2009 by Subject "Education"

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Browsing 2000 - 2009 by Subject "Education"

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  • Education and youth unemployment in South Africa 
    Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray; Mlatsheni, Cecil (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2008-09)
    The problem of high youth unemployment is a global phenomenon. According to an International Labour Office study in 2004, youth (15-24) make up nearly half (47%) of the world"s unemployed, 88 million out of 186 million, ...
  • The effects of the Kalamazoo Promise on college choice 
    Andrews, Rodney; DesJardins, Stephen; Ranchhod, Vimal (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2009-06)
    To the surprise of the residents of Kalamazoo, Michigan, the Kalamazoo Promise was announced on November 10, 2005. Fully funded by anonymous donors, the Kalamazoo Promise offers to pay both the tuition and mandatory fees ...
  • Orphanhood and schooling in South Africa: Trends in the vulnerability of orphans between 1993 and 2005 
    Ardington, Cally (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2008-06)
    Using 11 nationally representative surveys conducted between 1993 and 2005 this paper assesses the extent to which the vulnerability of orphans to poorer educational outcomes has changed over time as the AIDS crisis deepens ...
  • Parental loss and schooling: Evidence from metropolitan Cape Town 
    Ardington, Cally; Leibbrandt, Murray (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2009-11)
    This paper makes use of the Cape Area Panel study (CAPS), a longitudinal study of youth and their families in metropolitan Cape Town in order to broaden the empirical body of evidence of the causal impact of parental death ...
  • Schooling as a lottery: Racial differences in school advancement in urban South Africa 
    Lam, David; Ardington, Cally; Leibbrandt, Murray (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2007-11)
    This paper develops a stochastic model of grade repetition to analyze the large racial differences in progress through secondary school in South Africa. The model predicts that a larger stochastic component in the link ...
  • UPE and social inequality in Uganda: A step backward or a step in the right direction? 
    Zuze, Tia Linda; Leibbrandt, Murray (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2009-09)
    It is widely agreed that studying the relationship between school quality and academic achievement will benefit public investment in education. This is particularly true in Africa where, the 1990 World Conference on Education ...

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