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Health seeking behaviour in northern KwaZulu-Natal

Author: Case, Anne; Menendez, Alicia; Ardington, Cally Date: 28 May 2015 We examine patterns of health seeking behaviour prior to death among 1282 individuals who lived in the Umkhanyakude District of Northern KwaZulu- Natal. Information on the health care choices of these individuals, who died between January ... Read more
Health, Health Seeking Behavior, and Health Care

Author: Ardington, Cally; Case, Anne Date: 06 Jun 2017 Health status and socioeconomic status are important determinants of individuals’ wellbeing. Information on income alone, or on health alone, provides a less complete picture. Better health can lead to higher income, and higher income can ... Read more
Health: Analysis of the NIDS Wave 1 Dataset

Author: Ardington, Cally; Case, Anne Date: 06 Jun 2017 Health status and socioeconomic status are important determinants of individuals’ wellbeing. Information on income alone, or on health alone, provides a less complete picture. Better health can lead to higher income, and higher income can ... Read more
Labor supply responses to large social transfers: Longitudinal evidence from South Africa

Author: Ardington, Cally; Case, Anne; Hosegood, Victoria Date: 28 May 2015 In many parts of the developing world, rural areas exhibit high rates of unemployment and underemployment. Understanding what prevents people living in rural areas from migrating to find better jobs is central to the development process. This ... Read more
Social protection and labour market outcomes of youth in South Africa

Author: Ardington, Cally; Barnighausen, Till; Case, Anne; Menendez, Alicia Date: 28 May 2015 An Apartheid-driven spatial mismatch between workers and jobs leads to high job search costs for people living in rural areas of South Africa—costs that many young people cannot pay. In this paper, we examine whether the arrival of a social ... Read more
The economic consequences of death in South Africa

Author: Ardington, Cally; Barnighausen, Till; Case, Anne; Menendez, Alicia Date: 28 May 2015 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 socioeconomic gradient ... Read more
The impact of AIDS on intergenerational support in South Africa: Evidence from the Cape Area Panel Study

Author: Ardington, Cally; Case, Anne; Islam, Mahnaz; Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray; Menendez, Alicia; Olgiati, Anna Date: 28 May 2015 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 adults" children ... Read more
The impact of parental death on school enrolment and achievement: Longitudinal evidence from South Africa

Author: Case, Anne; Ardington, Cally Date: 28 May 2015 We analyse longitudinal data from a demographic surveillance area (DSA) in KwaZulu-Natal, to examine the impact of parental death on children's outcomes. We find significant differences in the impact of mothers' and fathers' deaths. The loss ... Read more
Youth unemployment and social protection

Author: Ardington, Cally; Case, Anne; Menendez, Alicia; Bärnighausen, Till; Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray Date: 28 May 2015 Globally and locally, youth unemployment is on the rise, leading the ILO to warn of a “‘scarred’generation of young people” who face low rates of employment and high rates of inactivity (ILO 2013). Policymakers and researchers are exploring ... Read more

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