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  • Burns, Justine; Hull, George; Lefko-Everett, Kate; Njozela, Lindokuhle (2018-01)
    Promoting social cohesion is one of the most difficult, yet one of the most important, challenges facing South Africa. However, while there is a widespread agreement that social cohesion influences economic and social ...
  • Mukong, Alfred; Tingum, Ernest (2018-05)
    This paper estimates the price elasticity of demand for cigarettes in South Africa, a country that has currently experienced a transition in the cigarette market, from a near monopoly to a more competitive market structure. ...
  • Pellicer, Miquel; Wegner, Eva; Benstead, Lindsay; Kincaid, Harold; Lust, Ellen; Vasquez, Juanita (2014-11)
    Political science literature on clientelism has tended to focus primarily on the role of parties and brokers, leaving the demand side of clientelism - the choices of potential clients - relatively unexplored. This paper ...
  • Dunne, John Paul; Tian, Nan (2016-09)
    This paper considers the determinants of civil conflict, using a zero-inflated modelling approach that deals with the problem of excess zero observations, which we argue are related to two distinct data generation processes. ...
  • Biyase, Mduduzi; Tregenna, Fiona (2016-08)
    This paper analyses household‐level determinants of the probability and level of domestic remittances in South Africa over the period 2008 to 2014‐2015. We exploit all four waves of the National Income Dynamics Survey ...
  • Vellios, Nicole; van Walbeek, Corne (2014-04)
    This paper investigates the individual and household variables that influence the decision to start smoking. The data was drawn from wave 1 of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) of 2008 and the analysis was performed ...
  • Storme, Evelien; De Lannoy, Ariane; Leibbrandt, Murray; De Boeck, Filip; Mudiriza, Gibson (2019-12)
    Employability, understood as the ability to gain, sustain, and move on in employment, depends on and shapes circumstances in a young person’s lifeworld. In a Post-apartheid South Africa individual attributes as well as ...
  • Larcom, Shaun; Sarr, Mare; Willems, Tim (2016-07)
    History offers many examples of dictators who worsened their behaviour significantly over time (like Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe) as well as dictators who displayed remarkable improvements (like Jerry Rawlings of Ghana). We ...
  • McLaren, Zoe; Ardington, Cally; Leibbrandt, Murray (2013-06)
    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 ...
  • Magadla, Sibahle Siphokazi; Leibbrandt, Murray; Mlatsheni, Cecil (2019-01)
    Do working mothers earn less than non-mothers in the South African labour market? This study examines whether there exists a motherhood (or child) penalty for Black African female employees in post-apartheid South Africa ...
  • Shifa, Muna; Leibbrandt, Murray; Wittenberg, Martin (2015-07)
    We examine the relationship between land tenure security and land-related investments in rural Ethiopia. We control for both household heterogeneity and possible endogeneity of tenure security in estimating the impact of ...
  • Hundenborn, Janina; Woolard, Ingrid; Leibbrandt, Murray (2016-11)
    The first democratic elections in 1994 brought about the promise for equal opportunity and an overall improvement of living standards for the majority of the South African population. The newly elected government promised ...
  • Mlatsheni, Cecil; Leibbrandt, Murray (2015-11)
    The transition from school to work marks the beginning of the labour market experience of youth. If smooth and efficient, it can be a springboard to a successful career. However, it often is not a smooth transition and ...
  • Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray (2017-10)
    We analyse the determinants of South Africans moving into and out of poverty over the first four waves of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) for the years 2008 to 2014/2015. The first descriptive sections of the ...
  • Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray (2013-12)
    We use the first three waves of data from the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) to analyse poverty dynamics in South Africa between 2008 and 2012. Restricting ourselves to the sub-sample of balanced panel respondents, ...
  • Ardington, Cally; Menendez, Alicia; Mutevedzi, Tinofa (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2011-03)
    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 ...
  • Ranchhod, Vimal (2013-12)
    How much volatility is there in earnings in South Africa? The South African labour market has been shown to be a key determinant of welfare, both in terms of poverty and inequality. These are a function of both the high ...
  • Muller, Sean (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2012)
    Reichenbach's 'principle of the common cause' is a foundational assumption of some important recent contributions to quantitative social science methodology but no similar principle appears in econometrics. Reiss (2005) ...
  • Ardington, Cally; Barnighausen, Till; Case, Anne; Menendez, Alicia (2012-12)
    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 ...
  • Wittenberg, Martin (2017-09)
    SALDRU and DataFirst have been at the forefront of measuring poverty and inequality in South Africa. We don’t however often enough try to sketch out the “big picture” as to why we do this and what we may have learned. Five ...

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