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Quality healthcare and health insurance retention: Evidence from a randomized experiment in the Kolkata Slums

Author: Delavallade, Clara Date: 28 May 2015 Health 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
Questionnaire Design and Response Propensities for Employee Income Micro Data

Author: Daniels, Reza Che Date: 28 May 2015 The 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
Questionnaires are no short cut

Author: Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit Date: 28 May 2015 Social surveys, research methods, questionnaires Read more
Questions on Demography for the National Income Dynamic Study

Author: Moultrie, Tom Date: 06 Jun 2017 This 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
Quiet desperation: The poverty of Calitzdorp

Author: Horner, D.; van Wyk, G. Date: 28 May 2015 Poverty, Calitzdorp Read more
Race and trust in post-apartheid South Africa

Author: Burns, Justine Date: 28 May 2015 I 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
Race, diversity and pro-social behaviour in a segmented society

Author: Burns, Justine Date: 28 May 2015 This 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
Raising electricity service levels in the national infrastructure plan: Financial and economic implications

Author: van Horen, Clive ; Davis, Mark Date: 1996 Read more
Randomised trials for policy: a review of the external validity of treatment effects

Author: Muller, Sean Date: 28 May 2015 The paper provides a first survey of the literature on external validity. The starting point for this are debates regarding the use of randomised evaluations to inform policy. Besides synthesising contributions to the programme evaluation ... Read more
Rapid appraisal of primary level health care services for HIV-positive children at public sector clinics in South Africa

Author: Giese, Sonja ; Hussey, Greg Date: Mar 2002 Read more c b n d
Rapid Assessment: The situation of children in South Africa

Author: Berry, Lizette ; Guthrie, Teresa Date: Nov 2003 Read more c b n d
RAPS component characterisation: Phase II

Author: deV Purcell, C J Date: 1993 Read more
Rarer Actions: Giving and Taking in Third-Party Punishment Games

Author: Halliday, S. Date: 28 May 2015 In attempting to understand cooperation, economists have used the methods of experimental economics to focus on spheres of human behavior in which humans display altruism, reciprocity, or other social preferences through giving and through ... Read more
Re-analysis of the island closure experiment results to implement the suggestions of the December 2020 International Panel

Author: Ross-Gillespie, Andrea ; Butterworth, Doug Date: 2021 The suggestions of the December 2020 International Panel for further analysis of the results from the island closure experiment, in particular to use the same data within a common framework to facilitate comparisons, and to include month as ... Read more
Re-weighting South African national Household survey data to create a consistent series over time: A cross entropy estimation approach

Author: Branson, Nicola; Wittenberg, Martin Date: 28 May 2015 In the absence of established longitudinal panel surveys in South African, national cross-sectional household survey data are frequently used to analyse change. When these data are stacked side-byside, however, inconsistencies both in time ... Read more
Re-weighting the OHS and LFS national household survey data to create a consistent series over time: A cross entropy estimation approach

Author: Branson, Nicola Date: 28 May 2015 In the absence of South African longitudinal data for the ten years post apartheid, national cross-sectional household survey data is frequently used to analyse change over time. When these data are stacked side-by-side however, they reveal ... Read more
Recent assessment and projection sensitivities pursued for west cost rock lobster

Author: Johnston, Susan ; Butterworth, Doug S Date: 2019 This document investigates the implications for assessments and projections for super-area A8+ for various sensitivity tests which include a square root relationship of CPUE to biomass, and different approaches to estimating recent recruitments ... Read more
Recent statistics in agriculture

Author: Hendrie, D. Date: 28 May 2015 Agriculture Read more
Recognising Heterogeneity: A Proposed Typology for Public Works Programmes

Author: McCord, A. Date: 28 May 2015 Read more
Recommendations for child-centred changes to the budget

Author: Proudlock, Paula ; Budlender, Debbie Date: Oct 2010 Read more c b n d