SALDRU Working Papers

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210: Mobile Money and Household Consumption Patterns in Uganda

John Dunne and Elizabeth Kasekende

209: Profiling Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality in Kenya and Zambia at Sub-National Levels

Muna Shifa and Murray Leibbrandt

208: Social stratification, life chances and vulnerability to poverty in South Africa

Simone Schotte, Rocco Zizzamia and Murray Leibbrandt

207: The value of reference letters

Martin Abel, Rulof Burger and Patrizio Piraino

206: Public pensions and elderly informal employment: Evidence from a change in retirement age in South Africa

Alessandro Tondini, Cally Ardington and Ingrid Woolard

205: Labor market discrimination and sorting: Evidence from South Africa

Martin Abel

204: Entrepreneurship, institutions and skills in low-income countries

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski and Balázs Égert

203: Gender and Birth Order Effects on Intra-household Schooling Choices and Education Attainments in Kenya

Fredrick Wamalwa and Justine Burns

202: Private Schools and Student Learning Achievements in Kenya

Fredrick Wamalwa and Justine Burns

201: The extent of churn in the South African youth labour market: Evidence from NIDS 2008-2015

Kim Engle and Cecil Mlatsheni

200: The Intergenerational Transmission of Depression in South African Adolescents

Katherine Eyal and Justine Burns

199: Washing with Hope: Evidence from a hand-washing pilot study among children in South Africa

Justine Burns, Brendan Maughan-Brown and Âurea Mouzinho

198: Assessing the usability of the Western Cape Graduate Destination Survey for the analysis of labour market outcomes

Nicola Branson and Murray Leibbrandt

197: The impact of the no-fee school policy on enrolment and school performance: Evidence from NIDS Waves 1-3

Nicola Branson and David Lam

196: How much does military spending affect growth? Causal estimates from the World's non-rich countries

Giorgio d'Agostino, John Dunne and Luca Pieroni

195: Aiming for a moving target: The dynamics of household electricity access in a developing context

Tom Harris, Mark Collinson and Martin Wittenberg

194: Drivers of Inequality in South Africa

Janina Hundenborn, Ingrid Woolard and Murray Leibbrandt

193: In-Work Poverty in South Africa: The Impact of Income Sharing in the Presence of High Unemployment

Kezia Lilenstein, Ingrid Woolard and Murray Leibbrandt

192: Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Swaziland

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski and Thierry Kangoye

191: Determinants of Civil War and Excess Zeroes

John Dunne and Nan Tian

190: Pathways to food security in South Africa: Food quality and quantity in NIDS Wave 1

Amy Thornton, Murray Leibbrandt and Cally Ardington

189: Multidimensional Youth Poverty: Estimating the Youth MPI in South Africa at ward level

Emily Frame, Ariane de Lannoy, Patricia Koka and Murray Leibbrandt

188: Vulnerability and the Middle Class in South Africa

Rocco Zizzamia, Simone Schotte, Murray Leibbrandt and Vimal Ranchhod

187: Towards measuring social cohesion in South Africa

Lindokuhle Njozela, Ingrid Shaw and Justine Burns

186: What Difference Does A Year Make? The Cumulative Effect of Missing Cash Transfers on Schooling Attainment

Katherine Eyal and Lindokuhle Njozela

185: Cross-Sectional Features of Wealth Inequality in South Africa: Evidence from the National Income Dynamics Study

Samson Mbewe and Ingrid Woolard

184: The Impact of Maternal Death on Children's Health and Education Outcomes

Cally Ardington and Megan Little

183: The Measurement and Distribution of Household Wealth in South Africa using the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) Wave 4

Reza Daniels and Taryn Augustine

182: The Post Matriculation Enrolment Decision: Do Public Colleges Provide Students with a Viable Alternative? Evidence from the First Four Waves of the National Income Dynamics Study

Nicola Branson and Amy Kahn

181: Socio-economic correlates with the prevalence and onset of diabetes in South Africa: Evidence from the first four waves of the National Income Dynamics Study

Velenkosini Matsebula and Vimal Ranchhod

180: Inter-household transfers in South Africa: prevalence, patterns and poverty

Dorrit Posel

179: Analysing the links between child health and education outcomes: Evidence from NIDS Waves 1 – 4

Daniela Casale

178: Maternal and child migration in post-apartheid South Africa: evidence from the NIDS panel study

Katharine Hall

177: Subjective Well-Being Adult South Africans' Life Satisfaction (2008 - 2014)

Catherine Kannermeyer

176: Determinants of remittances in South Africa

Mduduzi Biyase and Fiona Tregenna

175: Patterns of persistence: Intergenerational mobility and education in South Africa

Arden Finn, Murray Leibbrandt and Vimal Ranchhod

174: The dynamics of poverty in the first four waves of NIDS

Arden Finn and Murray Leibbrandt

173: Changes in self-employment in the agricultural sector, South Africa: 1994-2012

Liz Neyens and Martin Wittenberg

172: Estimating the size and impact of Affirmative Action at the University of Cape Town

Andrew Kerr, Patrizio Piraino and Vimal Ranchhod

171: Measuring and profiling financial literacy in South Africa

Elizabeth Lwanga Nanziri and Murray Leibbrandt

170: Eliminating Extreme Poverty in Africa: Trends, Policies and the Role of International Organizations

Zorobabel Bicaba, Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski and Mthuli Ncube

169: Measuring multidimensional poverty among youth in South Africa at the sub-national level

Emily Frame, Ariane de Lannoy and Murray Leibbrandt

168: Dictators Walking the Mogadishu Line: How Men Become Monsters and Monsters Become Men

Shaun Larcom, Mare Sarr and Tim Willems

167: Capital Flight and Foreign Direct Investment in Africa: An Investigation of the Role of Natural Resource Endowment

Leonce Ndikumana and Mare Sarr

166: Causes and Consequences of Teen Childbearing: Evidence from a Reproductive Health Intervention in South Africa

Nicola Branson and Tanya Byker

165: Up or Down? Intergenerational Mental Health Transmission and Cash Transfers in South Africa

Katherine Eyal and Justine Burns

164: Tracking and Tracing Tobacco Products in Kenya

Hana Ross

163: Undermining Government Tax Policies: Common strategies employed by the tobacco industry in response to tobacco tax increases

Hana Ross, Jean Tesche and Nicole Vellios

162: How does a change in the excise tax on beer impact beer retail prices in South Africa?

Caitlan Russell and Corne van Walbeek

161: Some determinants of Academic Exclusion and Graduation in three faculties at UCT

Chris Rooney and Corne van Walbeek