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(AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 2018-02)Interventions to improve antiretroviral therapy (ART) access are urgently needed to maximize the multiple benefits from ART. This pilot study examined the effect of a conditional economic incentive on linkage to care and ...
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(International African Institute, 2017-06)There is a long history of migration among low-income families in sub-Saharan Africa, in which (usually young, often male) members leave home to seek their fortune in what are perceived to be more favourable locations. ...
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(Demographic Research, 2017-10)Background: Household trends are generally tracked by means of repeated cross-sections, such as censuses or nationally representative surveys. However, the trends may be driven either by changes within households over time ...
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(Development Southern Africa, 2012)This paper describes the changes in inequality in South Africa over the post-apartheid period, using income data from 1993 and 2008. Having shown that the data are comparable over time, it then profiles aggregate changes ...
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(Journal of African Economies, 2013)This paper investigates the changes that occurred in black South African women's labour force participation (LFP) over the 1995–2004 post-Apartheid period. Using regression analysis of individual cross-section data for ...
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(BMJ Open, 2016-07)Objectives South Africa has achieved significant success with its tobacco control policy. Between 1994 and 2012, the real price of cigarettes increased by 229%, while regular smoking prevalence decreased from about 31% to ...
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(AIDS and Behaviour, 2014)Although HIV-related stigma in general is known 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 (n = ...
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(Natural Resources Forum, 2013)Tourism in southern Africa is based on the region's wildlife and nature assets and is generally environmentally sustainable, but the extent to which it contributes to other aspects of sustainable development — overall ...
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(Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2014)The economic importance of the various attributes of dryland nature-based tourism in the Kgalagadi area is generally unknown, as is the distribution of benefits from such tourism. This study seeks to value selected attributes ...
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(Review of Income and Wealth, 2013)We analyze the role of educational opportunity in shaping inequality in the distribution of occupations in the long run. We use the timing of political events in the history of the struggle to end Apartheid to devise an ...
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(AIDS and Behaviour, 2013)Poverty may influence HIV risk by increasing vulnerability to economic shocks and thereby preventing key health investments. We explored this possibility by examining the relationship between household shocks and the timing ...
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(African Development Review, 2013)This article reviews some of the key methodological approaches available to researchers interested in identifying a causal relationship between health interventions and economic indicators of productivity. We then discuss ...
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(Natural Resource Modelling, 2013)Presently, the mountain gorilla in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo is endangered mainly by poaching and habitat loss. This paper sets out to investigate the possible resolution of poaching involving ...
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(South African Journal of Economics, 2014)In the absence of established longitudinal panel surveys in South Africa, national cross-sectional household survey data are frequently used to analyse change. When these data are stacked side by side, however, inconsistencies ...
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(Development Southern Africa, 2014)We use longitudinal data from the National Income Dynamics Study to document the extent of recent short-term residential and household compositional change in South Africa. We analyse the demographic correlates of these ...
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Evidence on the impact of minimum wage laws in an informal sector: Domestic workers in South Africa (Journal of Development Economics, 2012)What happens when a previously uncovered labor market is regulated? We exploit the introduction of a minimum wage in South Africa and variation in the intensity of this law to identify increases in wages for domestic workers ...
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(Development Southern Africa, 2012)This paper investigates the expected costs of cash transfers to children in South Africa up to 2015. The child population is not expected to grow between 2008 and 2015 and thus the fiscal cost of the Child Support Grant ...
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Getting ahead or falling behind: Findings from the second wave of the National Income Dynamics Study (Development Southern Africa, 2014)The National Income Dynamics Study is the first national panel study of South African individuals. Its objective is to track these individuals over time to study social mobility. This paper documents the survey design and ...
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(Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2018-06)Background: Evidence on the role of age-disparate partnerships in high HIV-infection rates among young women in sub-Saharan Africa remains inconclusive. This study examined the HIV-infection risk associated with age-disparate ...
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(Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics, 2013)This paper considers the ex post accuracy of two published sets of macroeconomic forecasts: the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU's) Country Report and the "Economist of the Year" consensus forecast, sponsored by Media ...
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