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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
Education and youth unemployment in South Africa

Author: Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray; Mlatsheni, Cecil Date: 28 May 2015 The problem of high youth unemployment is a global phenomenon. According to an International Labour Office study in 2004, youth (15-24) make up nearly half (47%) of the world"s unemployed, 88 million out of 186 million, even though youth are ... 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
Estimating the effect of adolescent fertility on educational attainment in Cape Town using a propensity score weighted regression

Author: Ranchhod, Vimal; Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray; Marteleto, Letitia Date: 28 May 2015 We estimate the effect of a teenage birth on the educational attainment of young mothers in Cape Town, South Africa. Longitudinal and retrospective data on youth from the CAPS dataset are used. We control for a number of early life and ... Read more
Fertility and mother's labour market behaviour: Evidence from the 2011 South African Census

Author: Ardington, Cally; Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray; Menendez, Alicia Date: 06 Jun 2017 The relationship between fertility and female labour force participation has been a subject of attention for several decades. Most of the literature focuses on developed countries and responds to the interest in understanding the evolution ... Read more
Labour force withdrawal of the elderly in South Africa

Author: Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray; Ranchhod, Vimal Date: 28 May 2015 This paper analyses labour market behaviour of the elderly in South Africa, focusing on the Black/African population group. The analysis uses data from the 2001 census and 1996 census, the Labour Force Surveys for September 2000 and 2001, and ... Read more
Linking poverty and income shocks to risky sexual behaviour: evidence from a panel study of young adults in Cape Town

Author: Dinkelman, Taryn ; Lam, David ; Leibbrandt, Murray Date: 2008 Is there a link between household income and income stress, and risky sexual behaviour of young people? Anecdotal and qualitative evidence suggests this may be the case, but there is little quantitative research measuring this relationship. ... 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
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
Savings, Insurance and Debt over the Post-Apartheid Period: A Review of Recent Research

Author: Ardington, Cally; Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray; Levinsohn, James Date: 28 May 2015 Sustainable poverty reduction requires that poor households effectively manage risk. The absence of basic financial services is a major obstacle to poverty reduction in South Africa. This paper reviews available South African literature on ... Read more
Schooling as a lottery: Racial differences in school advancement in urban South Africa

Author: Lam, David; Ardington, Cally; Leibbrandt, Murray Date: 28 May 2015 This paper develops a stochastic model of grade repetition to analyze the large racial differences in progress through secondary school in South Africa. The model predicts that a larger stochastic component in the link between learning and ... Read more
Schooling as a lottery: Racial differences in school advancement in urban South Africa

Author: Lam, David ; Ardington, Cally ; Leibbrandt, Murray Date: 28 May 2015 This paper analyzes the large racial differences in progress through secondary school in South Africa. Using recently collected longitudinal data we find that grade advancement is strongly associated with scores on a baseline literacy and ... Read more
Suggestions for the Education Module of the South Africa National Income Dynamics Study

Author: Ardington, Cally; Lam, David Date: 06 Jun 2017 There can be little question that education plays a fundamental role in income dynamics, and that it should be an important focus of the National Income Dynamics Study. In preparing this document, we have been motivated by two basic questions. ... 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 influence of older classmates on adolescent sexual behavior in Cape Town, South Africa

Author: Lam, David; Marteleto, Letitia; Ranchhod, Vimal Date: 28 May 2015 This study examines the influence of exposure to older within-grade peers on sexual behavior among students in urban South Africa. Data are drawn from the Cape Area Panel Study, a longitudinal survey of young people conducted in metropolitan ... 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

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