SALDRU Working Papers

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160: Multidimensional Food Insecurity Measurement

Joanna Ryan and Murray Leibbrandt

159: Duration of unemployment in youth transitions from schooling to work in Cape Town

Cecil Mlatsheni and Murray Leibbrandt

158: Accents, Race and Discrimination: Evidence from a Trust Game

Ece Yagman and Malcolm Keswell

157: Strategies of the unemployed in South Africa: Does moving allow the unemployed to get ahead?

Amina Ebrahim, Murray Leibbrandt and Ingrid Woolard

156: Tax(i)ing the poor? Commuting costs in South Africa

Andrew Kerr

155: Gender and Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Africa: New Evidence from Swaziland

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski and Thierry Kangoye

154: Can Intra-Regional Trade Act as a Global Shock Absorber in Africa?

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski, Qingwei Meng and Mthuli Ncube

153: A National Minimum Wage in the Context of the South African Labour Market

Arden Finn

152: Estimating the Effects of South Africa's Youth Employment Tax Incentive – An Update

Vimal Ranchhod and Arden Finn

151: South African poverty lines: a review and two new money-metric thresholds

Josh Budlender, Murray Leibbrandt and Ingrid Woolard

150: Does tenure insecurity explain the variations in land-related investment decisions in rural Ethiopia?

Muna Shifa, Murray Leibbrandt and Martin Wittenberg

149: Fertility and mother's labour market behaviour: Evidence from the 2011 South African Census

Cally Ardington, David Lam, Murray Leibbrandt and Alicia Menendez

148: Problems with SWIID: the case of South Africa

Martin Wittenberg

147: Unconditional cash transfers and children's educational outcomes: Evidence from the old-age pension programme in South Africa

Jessica Standish-White and Arden Finn

146: Entrepreneurship and the Business Environment in Africa: An Application to Ethiopia

Zuzana Brixiová Schwidrowski and Mthuli Ncube

145: Increasing access to HIV testing: Impacts on equity of coverage and uptake from a national campaign in South Africa

Brendan Maughan-Brown, Neil D. Lloyd, Jacob Bor and Atheendar Venkataramani

144: The effect of non-personnel resources on educational outcomes: Evidence from South Africa

Miquel Pellicer and Patrizio Piraino

143: Quality Healthcare and Health Insurance Retention: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in the Kolkata Slums

Clara Delavallade

142: Managing Risk with Insurance and Savings: Experimental Evidence for Male and Female Farm Managers in the Sahel

Clara Delavallade, Felipe Dizon, Ruth Hill and Jean Paul Petraud

141: Measuring Inequality by Asset Indices: A general approach with application to South Africa

Martin Wittenberg and Murray Leibbrandt

140: The demand side of clientelism: The role of client's perceptions and values

Miquel Pellicer, Eva Wegner, Lindsay Benstead, Harold Kincaid, Ellen Lust and Juanita Vasquez

139: Information, mobilization, and demand for redistribution: A survey experiment in South Africa

Miquel Pellicer, Patrizio Piraino and Eva Wegner

138: South Africa's evolving political settlement in comparative perspective

Brian Levy, Alan Hirsch and Ingrid Woolard

137: Skills mismatch and informal sector participation among educated immigrants: Evidence from South Africa

Alexandra Doyle, Amos Peters and Asha Sundaram

136: Country of origin and employment prospects among immigrants: An analysis of south-south and north-south migrants to South Africa

Amos Peters and Asha Sundaram

135: Wages and wage inequality in South Africa 1994-2011: The evidence from household survey data

Martin Wittenberg

134: Estimating the short run effects of South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive on youth employment probabilities using a difference-in-differences approach

Vimal Ranchhod and Arden Finn

133: Union selection effects - some inconsistent models

Martin Wittenberg

132: gpsbound: Routine for importing and verifying geographical information from a user provided shapefile

Tim Brophy, Reza Daniels and Sibongile Musundwa

131: Intergenerational earnings mobility and equality of opportunity in South Africa

Patrizio Piraino

130: The impact of Cigarette Excise Tax Increases and Harmonisation in the East African Community

Jodie Posen and Corne Van Walbeek

129: Are the tobacco industry's claims about illicit trade credible?

Corne Van Walbeek and Lerato Shai

128: Determinants of smoking initiation in South Africa

Nicole Vellios and Corne Van Walbeek

127: Randomised trials for policy: a review of the external validity of treatment effects

Sean Muller

126: Unemployment and Household formation

Amina Ebrahim, Ingrid Woolard and Murray Leibbrandt

125: School Enrolment and the Child Support Grant: Evidence from South Africa

Katherine Eyal and Ingrid Woolard

124: Educational expenditure in South Africa: Evidence from the National Income Dynamics Study

Nicola Branson, Dineo Kekana and David Lam

123: Food expenditure patterns in South Africa: Evidence from the NIDS

Vukile Mhlongo and Reza Daniels

122: Rural Livelihoods in South Africa

Reza Daniels, Andrew Partridge, Dineo Kekana and Sibongile Musundwa

121: Earnings volatility in South Africa

Vimal Ranchhod

120: Mobility and Inequality in the First Three Waves of NIDS

Arden Finn and Murray Leibbrandt

119: The dynamics of poverty in the first three waves of NIDS

Arden Finn and Murray Leibbrandt

118: Effects of Objective and Subjective Income Comparisons on Subjective Wellbeing

Brennan Hodkinson and Martine Visser

117: Inequality, Social Sanctions and Cooperation within South African Fishing

Martine Visser and Justine Burns

116: Fairness and Accountability: Testing Models of Social Norms in Unequal

Martine Visser

115: Genuine Fakes: The prevalence and implications of fieldworker fraud in a large South African survey

Arden Finn and Vimal Ranchhod

114: Unintended labour supply effects of cash transfer programmes: Evidence from South Africa's old age pension

Martin Abel

113: The transmission of longevity across generations: The case of the settler Cape Colony

Patrizio Piraino, Sean Muller, Jeanne Cilliers and Johan Fourie

112: The influence of social transfers on labour supply: A South African and international review

Murray Leibbrandt, Kezia Lilenstein, Callie Shenker and Ingrid Woolard

111: Credit constraints and the racial gap in post-secondary education in South Africa

David Lam, Cally Ardington, Nicola Branson and Murray Leibbrandt