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  • Determinants of smoking initiation in South Africa 
    Vellios, Nicole; van Walbeek, Corne (2014-04)
    This paper investigates the individual and household variables that influence the decision to start smoking. The data was drawn from wave 1 of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) of 2008 and the analysis was performed ...
  • Developing a Multidimensional Youth Employability Index to unpack vulnerabilities in the lived realities of youth in Post-apartheid South Africa 
    Storme, Evelien; De Lannoy, Ariane; Leibbrandt, Murray; De Boeck, Filip; Mudiriza, Gibson (2019-12)
    Employability, understood as the ability to gain, sustain, and move on in employment, depends on and shapes circumstances in a young person’s lifeworld. In a Post-apartheid South Africa individual attributes as well as ...
  • Dictators Walking the Mogadishu Line: How Men Become Monsters and Monsters Become Men 
    Larcom, Shaun; Sarr, Mare; Willems, Tim (2016-07)
    History offers many examples of dictators who worsened their behaviour significantly over time (like Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe) as well as dictators who displayed remarkable improvements (like Jerry Rawlings of Ghana). We ...
  • Distance as a barrier to health care access in South Africa 
    McLaren, Zoe; Ardington, Cally; Leibbrandt, Murray (2013-06)
    Access to health care is a particular concern given the centrality of poor access in perpetuating poverty and inequality. South Africa’s apartheid history leaves large racial disparities in access despite post-apartheid ...
  • Does a motherhood penalty exist in the post-apartheid South African labour market? 
    Magadla, Sibahle Siphokazi; Leibbrandt, Murray; Mlatsheni, Cecil (2019-01)
    Do working mothers earn less than non-mothers in the South African labour market? This study examines whether there exists a motherhood (or child) penalty for Black African female employees in post-apartheid South Africa ...
  • Does tenure insecurity explain the variations in land-related investment decisions in rural Ethiopia? 
    Shifa, Muna; Leibbrandt, Murray; Wittenberg, Martin (2015-07)
    We examine the relationship between land tenure security and land-related investments in rural Ethiopia. We control for both household heterogeneity and possible endogeneity of tenure security in estimating the impact of ...
  • Drivers of Inequality in South Africa 
    Hundenborn, Janina; Woolard, Ingrid; Leibbrandt, Murray (2016-11)
    The first democratic elections in 1994 brought about the promise for equal opportunity and an overall improvement of living standards for the majority of the South African population. The newly elected government promised ...
  • Duration of unemployment in youth transitions from schooling to work in Cape Town 
    Mlatsheni, Cecil; Leibbrandt, Murray (2015-11)
    The transition from school to work marks the beginning of the labour market experience of youth. If smooth and efficient, it can be a springboard to a successful career. However, it often is not a smooth transition and ...
  • The dynamics of poverty in South Africa (updated, version 3) 
    Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray (2017-10)
    We analyse the determinants of South Africans moving into and out of poverty over the first four waves of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) for the years 2008 to 2014/2015. The first descriptive sections of the ...
  • 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, ...
  • Early childbearing, human capital attainment and mortality risk 
    Ardington, Cally; Menendez, Alicia; Mutevedzi, Tinofa (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2011-03)
    This paper uses a rich longitudinal dataset to examine the relationship between teen fertility and both subsequent educational outcomes and mortality risk in rural South Africa. Human capital deficits among teen mothers ...
  • 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 ...
  • Econometric methods and Reichenbach's principle 
    Muller, Sean (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2012)
    Reichenbach's 'principle of the common cause' is a foundational assumption of some important recent contributions to quantitative social science methodology but no similar principle appears in econometrics. Reiss (2005) ...
  • The economic consequences of death in South Africa 
    Ardington, Cally; Barnighausen, Till; Case, Anne; Menendez, Alicia (2012-12)
    Using a large longitudinal dataset, we quantify the impact of adult deaths on household economic wellbeing. The timing of lower socioeconomic status observed for households in which members die of AIDS suggests that the ...
  • Economics and Transformation: Measurements, Models, Maths and Myths 
    Wittenberg, Martin (2017-09)
    SALDRU and DataFirst have been at the forefront of measuring poverty and inequality in South Africa. We don’t however often enough try to sketch out the “big picture” as to why we do this and what we may have learned. Five ...
  • Education and inequality: The South African case 
    Branson, Nicola; Garlick, Julia; Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2012)
    Following the international literature, income inequality decompositions on data from contemporary South Africa show that the labour market is the key driver of overall household inequality. In order to understand one of ...
  • 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, ...
  • Educational inheritance and the distribution of occupations: Evidence from South Africa 
    Keswell, Malcolm; Girdwood, Sarah; Leibbrandt, Murray (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2011)
    We analyse the role of educational opportunity in shaping inequality in the distribution of occupations in the long-run. We start by modelling the probability that a child occupies the same or a different rung on the ...
  • The effect of non-personnel resources on educational outcomes: Evidence from South Africa 
    Pellicer, Miquel; Piraino, Patrizio (2015-04)
    Little credible evidence exists on the effect of material resources on school quality in developing countries. This paper studies the impact of non-personnel funding on educational outcomes exploiting the peculiar way in ...
  • The effects of different dimensions of HIV-related stigma on HIV testing uptake among young men and women in Cape Town, South Africa 
    Maughan-Brown, Brendan; Nyblade, Laura (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2013-10)
    Although HIV-related stigma is known, in general, to deter HIV-testing, the extent to which different dimensions of stigma independently influence testing behaviour is poorly understood. We used data on young black men ...

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