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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
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
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
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
Social protection and labour market outcomes of youth in South Africa

Author: Ardington, Cally; Barnighausen, Till; Case, Anne; Menendez, Alicia Date: 28 May 2015 An Apartheid-driven spatial mismatch between workers and jobs leads to high job search costs for people living in rural areas of South Africa—costs that many young people cannot pay. In this paper, we examine whether the arrival of a social ... Read more
The economic consequences of death in South Africa

Author: Ardington, Cally; Barnighausen, Till; Case, Anne; Menendez, Alicia Date: 28 May 2015 Using a large longitudinal dataset, we quantify the impact of adult deaths on household economic wellbeing. The timing of lower socioeconomic status observed for households in which members die of AIDS suggests that the socioeconomic gradient ... 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
Youth unemployment and social protection

Author: Ardington, Cally; Case, Anne; Menendez, Alicia; Bärnighausen, Till; Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray Date: 28 May 2015 Globally and locally, youth unemployment is on the rise, leading the ILO to warn of a “‘scarred’generation of young people” who face low rates of employment and high rates of inactivity (ILO 2013). Policymakers and researchers are exploring ... Read more

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