Browsing by Author "Marteleto, Letitia"

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Estimating the effect of adolescent fertility on educational attainment in Cape Town using a propensity score weighted regression

Ranchhod, Vimal; Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray; Marteleto, Letitia (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2011-03)

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 ...
The influence of older classmates on adolescent sexual behavior in Cape Town, South Africa

Lam, David; Marteleto, Letitia; Ranchhod, Vimal (Studies in Family Planning, 2013)

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 ...

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