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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
Dietary diversity and food security in South Africa: an application using NIDS Wave 1

Author: Thornton, Amy Julia Date: 2016 South Africa is food secure at the national level; however widespread food insecurity persists at the household level. To understand the dynamics of micro-level food insecurity this dissertation investigates how two different aspects of 'food ... Read more
Distance as a barrier to health care access in South Africa

Author: McLaren, Zoe; Ardington, Cally; Leibbrandt, Murray Date: 28 May 2015 Access to health care is a particular concern given the centrality of poor access in perpetuating poverty and inequality. South Africa’s apartheid history leaves large racial disparities in access despite post-apartheid health policy to ... Read more
Early childbearing, human capital attainment and mortality risk

Author: Ardington, Cally; Menendez, Alicia; Mutevedzi, Tinofa Date: 28 May 2015 This paper uses a rich longitudinal dataset to examine the relationship between teen fertility and both subsequent educational outcomes and mortality risk in rural South Africa. Human capital deficits among teen mothers are large and significant, ... Read more
Employment status, security, and the management of risk: a study of workers in Kwamsane, KwaZulu-Natal

Author: Lund, Francis; Ardington, Cally Date: 28 May 2015 The study investigates the concept of security in relationship to work and employment. Work has conventionally been seen as the pathway to economic security; however, the growth in the numbers of people in the informal economy and in atypical ... Read more
Essays in economics of education: free primary education, birth order and human capital development in Lesotho

Author: Moshoeshoe, Ramaele Elias Date: 2015 Given the low levels of educational standards in the developing world, the World Education Forum adopted the Dakar Framework for Action (DFA) in 2000, calling for quality 'Education for All' children of school-going age. Heeding to this call, ... 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
Financial services and the informal economy

Author: Ardington, Cally; Leibbrandt, Murray Date: 28 May 2015 This paper examines the impact of formality of employment on the utilisation of financial services, using data from the October 2000 Income and Expenditure Survey and the September 2000 Labour Force Survey. The presence of an employed member ... 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
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
Health: Analysis of the NIDS Wave 1 and 2 Datasets

Author: Ardington, Cally; Gasealahwe, Boingotlo Date: 28 May 2015 This report examines the health data from the second wave of the NIDS with a view to assessing the strengths and weakness of the data and highlighting the potential of the NIDS panel for the analysis of the relationship between health status ... Read more
How does the process of educational attainment differ between Africans and Coloureds in the Western Cape?

Author: Hofmeyr, Clare Date: 2011 More than a decade after the end of apartheid, inequality along racial lines is widely apparent. While the greatest disparity exists between Whites and non-Whites, inequality also persists among non-Whites. With reference to the youth of the ... Read more
How the old age pension is helping young people from rural areas find jobs

Author: Ardington, Cally; Hofmeyr, Clare Date: It is important to know whether a social grant such as the old age pension eases financial constraints in rural areas, thereby allowing young men to migrate to urban areas for work – or whether these grants encourage idleness and dependency. ... Read more
Impact evaluation of Funda Wande in-service teacher coaching intervention: Findings from the first year

Author: Meiring, Christiaan Date: 2021 Acknowledging the limited opportunities for South African teachers to acquire specialized knowledge in teaching reading, particularly in African Languages, the Non-Governmental Organisation Funda Wande is providing an integrated package of ... 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
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
Mortality in South Africa: Socio-economic profile and association with self-reported health

Author: Ardington, Cally; Gasealahwe, Boingotlo Date: 28 May 2015 This paper exploits the first two waves of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) to describe the socio-economic profile of mortality and to assess whether self-rated health status is predictive of mortality between waves. Mortality rates ... Read more

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