SALDRU Working Papers

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260: Urban inequality and protests in Ecuador and Chile

María Gabriela Palacio Ludeña and Fabio Díaz Pabón

259: Estimating the effect of racial classification on labour market outcomes: A case study from Apartheid South Africa

Miquel Pellicer and Vimal Ranchhod

258: Enterprising women in Southern Africa: When does land ownership matter?

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski, Thierry Kangoye and Fiona Tregenna

257: Networks, start-up capital and women's entrepreneurial performance in Africa: Evidence from Eswatini

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski and Thierry Kangoye

256: Training, Human Capital, and Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurial Performance

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski, Thierry Kangoye and Mona Said

255: Developing a Multidimensional Youth Employability Index to unpack vulnerabilities in the lived realities of youth in Post-apartheid South Africa

Evelien Storme, Ariane De Lannoy, Murray Leibbrandt, Filip De Boeck and Gibson Mudiriza

254: Towards a basic package of support for youth in South Africa

Lauren Graham, Ariane De Lannoy, Solange Rosa and Jessica Breakey

253: The agency and resilience of NEET youth and what we can do to support them. Evidence from a synthesis of qualitative research with young people in South Africa

Kim Baldry, Lauren Graham and Ariane De Lannoy

252: Changes in South African well-being between 2008/9 and 2014/15: The evidence from expenditure and asset data

Motshidisi Nthatisi and Martin Wittenberg

251: Returns to English skills in the South African labour market

Amy Kahn, Nicola Branson and Murray Leibbrandt

250: The labour market for minibus taxi drivers in South Africa

Lauren Antrobus and Andrew Kerr

249: A profile of young NEETs: Unpacking the heterogeneous nature of young people not in employment, education or training in South Africa

Ariane De Lannoy and Gibson Mudiriza

248: Household Balance Sheets in South Africa

Reza Daniels and Safia Khan

247: Does a Motherhood Penalty Exist in the Post-apartheid South African Labour Market?

Sibahle Siphokazi Magadla, Murray Leibbrandt and Cecil Mlatsheni

246: Measuring employment volitility in South Africa using NIDS: 2008 - 2017

Rocco Zizzamia and Vimal Ranchhod

245: Realising a demographic dividend? A panel analysis to assess the outcomes of post-CSG beneficiaries

Lauren Graham, Talita Greyling and Natalia Kopylova

244: Exploring the transitions and well-being of young people who leave school before completing secondary education in South Africa

Nicola Branson, Ariane De Lannoy and Amy Kahn

243: Unpacking Grade Repitition Patterns in Light of the Progression Policy in the Further Education and Training Phase

Jesal Kika and Janeli Kotze

242: Financial Literacy in South Africa

Lwanga Elizabeth Nanziri and Matthew Olckers

241: The complementarity between cash transfers and financial literacy for child growth

Dieter von Fintel, Marisa von Fintel and Thabani Buthelezi

240: Exploring psychological well-being and poverty dynamics in South-Africa: evidence from NIDS waves 1-5

Nik Stoop, Murray Leibbrandt and Rocco Zizzamia

239: An Analysis of Cheap Cigarettes in South Africa

Kirsten van der Zee, Sibahle Magadla and Corne Van Walbeek

238: Factors influencing grant continuity and well-being outcomes for child grant beneficiaries

Debbie Budlender

237: Building social cohesion in South Africa

Lindokuhle Njozela and Justine Burns

236: Recovery from stunting in early childhood and subsequent schooling outcomes: Evidence from NIDS Waves 1-5

Daniela Casale

235: Snakes and Ladders and Loaded Dice: Poverty dynamics and inequality in South Africa between 2008-2017

Rocco Zizzamia, Simone Schotte and Murray Leibbrandt

234: Changes in the care burden over the transition to adulthood

Debbie Budlender

233: Identity, inequality and social contestation in the Post-Apartheid South Africa

Hino Hiroyuki, Murray Leibbrandt, Ratjomose Machema, Muna Shifa and Crain Soudien

232: An analysis of out of school youth who have not completed matric: what can available data tell us?

Nicola Branson

231: More Legislation, More Violence? The Impact of Dodd-Frank in the DRC

Nik Stoop, Marijke Verpoorten and Peter van der Windt

230: Household formation and service delivery in post-apartheid South Africa: Evidence from the Agincourt sub-district 1992-2012

Martin Wittenberg and Mark Collinson

229: Is employment a panacea for poverty in South Africa? A mixed-methods investigation

Rocco Zizzamia

228: Nurture surpasses nature: The intergenerational transmission of depression from African mothers to their adolescent children

Simeme Mthembu and Katherine Eyal

227: The Demand for Cigarettes: New Evidence from South Africa

Alfred Mukong and Ernest Tingum

226: Handwashing behaviour and habit formation in the household: evidence of spillovers from a pilot randomised evaluation in South Africa

Abigail Sellman, Justine Burns and Brendan Maughan-Brown

225: Tobacco Industry Strategies to Reduce Tax Liability

Hana Ross

224: The top tail of South Africa's earnings distribution 1993-2014: Evidence from the Pareto distribution

Martin Wittenberg

223: Preferences for the scope of protests

Miquel Pellicer, Eva Wegner and Alexander De Juan

222: Preschool attendance, school progression, and cognitive skills in East Africa

Jan Bietenbeck, Sanna Ericsson and Fredrick M. Wamalwa

221: Spatial poverty and inequality in South Africa: A municipality level analysis

Anda David, Nathalie Guilbert, Nobuaki Hamaguchi, Yudai Higashi, Hino Hiroyuki, Murray Leibbrandt and Muna Shifa

220: The gap between rich and poor: South African society's biggest divide depends on where you think you fit in

Tiaan Meiring, Catherine Kannemeyer and Elnari Potgieter

219: Social cohesion and inequality in South Africa

Anda David, Nathalie Guilbert, Hino Hiroyuki, Murray Leibbrandt, Elnari Potgieter and Muna Shifa

218: Exploring South Africans' Understanding of Social Cohesion

Kate Lefko-Everett, Justine Burns, Sihle Nontshokweni and Lindokuhle Njozela

217: From definition to measurement: constructing a social cohesion index for South Africa

Justine Burns, Kate Lefko-Everett and Lindokuhle Njozela

216: Defining Social Cohesion

Justine Burns:, George Hull, Kate Lefko-Everett and Lindokuhle Njozela

215: Exploring a negative income tax for South Africa: impacts on income inequality and poverty

Emma Helen Rasmussen

214: Public sector wages and employment in South Africa

Andrew Kerr and Martin Wittenberg

213: Household responses to the cessation of grant income: The case of South Africa's Old Age Pension

Vimal Ranchhod

212: Measurement of earnings: Comparing South African tax and survey data

Martin Wittenberg

211: Economics and Transformation: Measurements, Models, Maths and Myths

Martin Wittenberg