Author:Delavallade, ClaraDate:28 May 2015Health care in developing countries is often unreliable and of poor quality, reducing incentives to use quality health services. Using data from a field experiment in India, I show that providing initial quality care improves the demand for ...Read more
Author:Maughan-Brown, BrendanDate:2006This paper builds on previous analyses of HIV/AIDS-related stigma among young adults (aged 15-23) in the Cape Metropolitan Area by using a representative sample of adults from the same area. It compares the findings from both surveys, and ...Read morecbnd
Author:Schenk, JanDate:2009Recent studies suggest that young South Africans increasingly use references to popular culture, such as music and fashion, in making racial distinctions. This leads to a reinterpretation of race categories but not to the demise of the ...Read morecbnd
Author:Daniels, Reza CheDate:28 May 2015The design of the income question in household surveys usually includes response options for actual income, bracketed values, "Don't Know" and "Refuse" responses. This paper conducts an analysis of these response types using sequential response ...Read more
Author:Moultrie, TomDate:06 Jun 2017This briefing paper sets out proposed questions for the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) that will ensure that the study will be able to answer questions relating to the intersection between demographic variables and the key foci of NIDS. ...Read more
Author:Smith, KarenDate:Mar 2015This briefing provides an overview of the South African government’s position on the protection of civilians within the context of the ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P) framework. As South Africa lacks a clearly articulated policy on R2P, any ...Read more
Author:Burns, JustineDate:28 May 2015I examine the impact of racial identity on behavior in trust games played by White, Black and Colored high school students in South Africa. There is a systematic pattern of distrust towards Black partners, even by Black proposers, partially ...Read more
Author:Seekings, JeremyDate:2010The 'apartheid city' in South Africa stands out as an extreme example of urban social engineering. Urban segregation was pervasive across the colonial world, some other cities in colonial and even post-colonial Africa were subject to massive ...Read morecbnd
Author:Seekings, JeremyDate:2007The end of apartheid has brought a resurgence of research into racial identities, attitudes and behaviour in South Africa.? The legacy of systematic racial ordering and discrimination under apartheid is that South Africa remains deeply ...Read morecbnd
Author:Burns, JustineDate:28 May 2015This paper examines the impact of racial identity on behavior in trust games played by public high school students in South Africa. There is a systematic pattern of distrust towards Black partners, even by Black proposers, partially attributable ...Read more
Author:Crankshaw, Owen; Parnell, SusanDate:2002The city of Johannesburg lies at the heart of a sprawling metropolis. This metropolis, which we shall call the Johannesburg region, roughly corresponds with the boundaries of Gauteng Province.1 It stretches from Soshanguve in the north to ...Read morecbnd
Author:Crankshaw, Owen; Parnell, SusanDate:2002The city of Johannesburg lies at the heart of a sprawling metropolis. This metropolis, which we shall call the Johannesburg region, roughly corresponds with the boundaries of Gauteng Province.1 It stretches from Soshanguve in the north to ...Read morecbnd
Author:Seekings, JeremyDate:2007In multi-racial or otherwise multi-cultural societies, people may discriminate in the allocation of scarce resources against members of particular racial or cultural groups. This paper examines how people in post-apartheid Cape Town – a city ...Read morecbnd