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  • Concurrent sexual partnerships and sexually transmitted diseases among African men in Cape Town, South Africa 
    Maughan-Brown, Brendan (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2011-11)
    Background: Most studies that assess the relationship between concurrent sexual partnerships and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) use dichotomous measures of whether concurrency was reported or not. However, different ...
  • Evaluating the Impact of Health Programmes 
    Burns, Justine; Keswell, Malcolm; Thornton, Rebecca (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2009-10)
    This paper has two broad objectives. The first objective is broadly methodological and deals with some of the more pertinent estimation issues one should be aware of when studying the impact of health status on economic ...
  • Health seeking behaviour in northern KwaZulu-Natal 
    Case, Anne; Menendez, Alicia; Ardington, Cally (CSSR and SALDRU, 2005-05)
    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 ...
  • Health, Health Seeking Behavior, and Health Care 
    Ardington, Cally; Case, Anne (2006-12)
    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 ...
  • Health: Analysis of the NIDS Wave 1 and 2 Datasets 
    Ardington, Cally; Gasealahwe, Boingotlo (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2012-05)
    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 ...
  • The impact of AIDS on intergenerational support in South Africa: Evidence from the Cape Area Panel Study 
    Ardington, Cally; Case, Anne; Islam, Mahnaz; Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray; Menendez, Alicia; Olgiati, Anna (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2009-02)
    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 ...
  • The impact of health on poverty: Evidence from the South African integrated family survey 
    Godlonton, Susan; Keswell, Malcolm (CSSR and SALDRU, 2004-10)
    This paper examines the impact of health status on poverty status, accounting for the endogeneity of health status. Using exogenous measures of health status from the South African Integrated Health Survey, we instrument ...
  • 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 ...
  • The Links Between Migration, Poverty and Health: Evidence From Khayelitsha and Mitchell's Plain 
    Ndegwa, David; Horner, Dudley; Esau, Faldie (CSSR and SALDRU, 2004-08)
    In the mid-1950s, the City of Cape Town was part of a wider area demarcated as a Coloured Labour Preference Area. The free movement of African people into the city was strictly controlled and the residential areas were ...
  • Revisiting the ‘crisis’ in teen births: What is the impact of teen births on young mothers and their children? 
    Menendez, Alicia; Branson, Nicola; Lam, David; Ardington, Cally; Leibbrandt, Murray (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2011-12)
    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 ...

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