The effect of household characteristics on living standards in South Africa 1993-1998: a quantile regression analysis with sample attrition

Farshid Vahid and Pushkar Maitra

Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2006, vol. 21, issue 7, 999-1018

Abstract: This paper examines whether the dismantling of apartheid has resulted in an improvement in the standard of living for the vast majority of South Africans. The study is based on a panel data set from the Kwazulu-Natal province. We use weighted quantile regressions to examine the distribution of standards of living, which corrects for the potential bias arising from non-random sample attrition. Our results show that there has been a significant increase in the spread of the distribution of household expenditure of the non-white households residing in Kwazulu-Natal province. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Date: 2006
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