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Analysing the role of language in the context of education, employment and income in South Africa

Author: Kahn,Amy Date: 2020 Although most of the South African population speak an African language as their home language, English remains the lingua franca and continues to dominate economic and political life. This thesis explores the role of language in the context ... Read more
Causes and Consequences of Teen Childbearing: Evidence from a Reproductive Health Intervention in South Africa

Author: Branson, Nicola; Byker, Tanya Date: 06 Jun 2017 The rollout of the National Adolescent Friendly Clinic Initiative (NAFCI) serves as a natural experiment to study the causes and consequences of early teen child bearing. Geolinking residence histories to the rollout, we estimate that living ... Read more
Changes in education, employment and earnings in South Africa: A cohort analysis

Author: Branson, Nicola; Ardington, Cally; Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray Date: 28 May 2015 Rapid increases in educational attainment and the massification of secondary education in South Africa resulted in substantial differences in the supply and quality of educated workers across generations. This paper describes changes in the ... Read more
Credit constraints and the racial gap in post-secondary education in South Africa

Author: Lam, David; Ardington, Cally; Branson, Nicola; Leibbrandt, Murray Date: 28 May 2015 This paper analyzes the impact of high school household income and scholastic ability on post-secondary enrollment in South Africa. Using longitudinal data from the Cape Area Panel Study (CAPS), we analyze the large racial gaps in the proportion ... Read more
Education and inequality: The South African case

Author: Branson, Nicola; Garlick, Julia; Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray Date: 28 May 2015 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 the channels driving ... Read more
Educational expenditure in South Africa: Evidence from the National Income Dynamics Study

Author: Branson, Nicola; Kekana, Dineo; Lam, David Date: 28 May 2015 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, spending on white learners ... Read more
Health outcomes for children born to teen mothers in Cape Town, South Africa

Author: Branson, Nicola; Ardington, Cally; Leibbrandt, Murray Date: This paper analyzes the effect of being born to a teen mother on child health outcomes in South Africa using propensity score reweighting. Exploiting the longitudinal nature of the Cape Area Panel Study, we estimate the probability of being ... Read more
More financial aid is not the best way to close the racial gap in tertiary education

Author: Lam, David; Ardington, Cally; Branson, Nicola; Leibbrandt, Murray Date: 28 May 2015 South Africa’s large racial gap in enrolment in tertiary education can be attributed to the widely varying quality of primary and secondary education rather than to the low incomes of most black and coloured households. Thus, easing credit ... Read more
Progress through school and the determinants of school dropout in South Africa

Author: Branson, Nicola; Hofmeyr, Clare; Lam, David Date: The release of the National Income Dynamics Study Wave 2 provides the first nationally representative longitudinal data collected in South Africa. This makes it possible to study transitions in and out of school, across grades and into work ... Read more
Progress through school and the determinants of school dropout in South Africa

Author: Branson, Nicola; Hofmeyr, Clare; Lam, David Date: 28 May 2015 The release of the National Income Dynamics Study Wave 2 provides the first nationally representative longitudinal data collected in South Africa, making it possible to study transitions in and out of school, across grades and into work, in ... 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
Revisiting the ‘crisis’ in teen births: What is the impact of teen births on young mothers and their children?

Author: Menendez, Alicia; Branson, Nicola; Lam, David; Ardington, Cally; Leibbrandt, Murray Date: 28 May 2015 Reports in the South African media consistently describe an explosion of teenage pregnancies. Yet studies by the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) at the University of Cape Town show that teen childbearing in the ... Read more
Reweighting South African national household survey data to create a consistent series over time: A cross-entropy approach

Author: Branson, Nicola; Wittenberg, Martin Date: 28 May 2015 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 both in time ... Read more
The matric certificate is still valuable in the labour market

Author: Hofmeyr, Clare; Branson, Nicola; Leibbrandt, Murray; Ardington, Cally; Lam, David Date: 28 May 2015 Increasing levels of youth unemployment and learners’ poor performance at school have led to claims that the matric certificate no longer has much value in the labour market. However, the evidence does not support this claim. While the labour ... Read more
The measurement of employment status in South Africa using cohort analysis, 1994-2004

Author: Branson, Nicola ; Wittenberg, Martin Date: 2007 We analyse trends in employment, unemployment and labour force participation by simple graphical techniques, using all the October Household Surveys and the September Labour Force Surveys. We show that African male employment in 1995 seems ... Read more
The South African labour market 1995-2004: A cohort analysis

Author: Branson, Nicola Date: 28 May 2015 This paper constructs a ‘synthetic panel’ from successive years of the October Household Surveys and Labour Force Surveys, and shows that new insights into the South African labour market are revealed when groups of individuals, defined by ... Read more
Trends in teenage childbearing and schooling outcomes for children born to teens in South Africa

Author: Branson, Nicola; Ardington, Cally; Leibbrandt, Murray Date: 28 May 2015 Teenage childbearing is considered a social problem with costs to the teenage mother, her child and society at large. In South Africa, media attention suggests a contemporary crisis in teen childbearing; often linking this to a fear that the ... Read more
Using Census, Institutional and Geospatial Data to Estimate the Socio-Economic Profile of Post-School Students by Institutional Type

Author: Culligan, Samantha Date: 2022 The socio-economic profile of students who are participating in post-school education; and the distribution of their socio-economic characteristics between universities and colleges, between institutions of a similar type, and within particular ... Read more
Youth friendly clinics make inroads in reducing unintended teen births in South Africa

Author: Branson, Nicola; Byker, Tanya Date: 06 Jun 2017 Despite widespread, freely available contraception and progressive reproductive health laws, most teen mothers report their last pregnancy as unintended or unplanned. This begs the question: Why are many sexually active teens failing to use ... Read more

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