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  • Child Grants: Analysis of the NIDS Wave 1 and 2 Datasets 
    Woolard, Ingrid; Buthelezi, Thabani; Bertsher, Jonathan (2012)
    This paper provides a brief summary of some key descriptive findings about child grants from the first two waves of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS). Wave 1 was conducted in 2008 and Wave 2 in 2010/11. The paper ...
  • The Evolution and Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers in South Africa 
    Woolard, Ingrid; Leibbrandt, Murray (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2010-10)
    At the time of the transition to democracy in 1994, the South African social security system was already notably well developed for a middle income country (Lund 1993; Van der Berg 1997; Case and Deaton 1998). This fact ...
  • The fiscal cost of child grants in the context of high adult mortality in South Africa: A simulation to 2015 
    McEwen, Hayley; Woolard, Ingrid (Development Southern Africa, 2012)
    This paper investigates the expected costs of cash transfers to children in South Africa up to 2015. The child population is not expected to grow between 2008 and 2015 and thus the fiscal cost of the Child Support Grant ...
  • Household responses to adverse income shocks: Pensioner out-migration and mortality in South Africa 
    Ranchhod, Vimal (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2009-07)
    How do poor households respond to the cessation of cash transfers in developing countries? South Africa"s generous social pension system results in most of the poor elderly being the primary "breadwinner" in the household. ...
  • The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Nutrition: The South African Child Support Grant 
    Aguero, Jorge; Carter, Michael; Woolard, Ingrid (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2006-10)
    Cash transfer programs are used as new policies to increase nutrition and human capital of children from poor families. We evaluate South Africa's unconditional Child Support Grant (CSG) in which cash grants are made to ...
  • Social programs and transfers: Are we learning? 
    Leibbrandt, Murray; Woolard, Ingrid (2010 Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, 2013)
    Documents the historical context for the current cash transfer programs in South Africa, examines evidence concerning the aggregate impact of these cash transfers on poverty levels, and argues for a stronger focus on active ...

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