Browsing 2000 - 2009 by Author "Leibbrandt, Murray"

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Browsing 2000 - 2009 by Author "Leibbrandt, Murray"

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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 impact of AIDS on intergenerational support in South Africa: Evidence from the Cape Area Panel Study 
    Ardington, Cally; Case, Anne; Islam, Mahnaz; Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray; Menendez, Alicia; Olgiati, Anna (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2009-02)
    We use panel data collected in metropolitan Cape Town to document the role played by aging parents in caring for the children of children who die. In addition, we quantify the probabilities that older adults and the older ...
  • 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 ...
  • Sequential regression multiple imputation for incomplete multivariate data using Markov Chain Monte Carlo 
    Lacerda, M.; Ardington, Cally; Leibbrandt, Murray (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2007-12)
    This paper discusses the theoretical background to handling missing data in a multivariate context. Earlier methods for dealing with item non-response are reviewed, followed by an examination of some of the more modern ...
  • 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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