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60: The Labour Supply of Sex Workers in Cape Town

Matthew Butler-Adams and Justine Burns

59: Estimating the effect of adolescent fertility on educational attainment in Cape Town using a propensity score weighted regression

Vimal Ranchhod, David Lam, Murray Leibbrandt and Leticia Marteleto

58: Employer of Last Resort? South Africa’s Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP)

Charles Meth

57: Inequality Traps in South Africa: An overview and research agenda

Miquel Pellicer, Vimal Ranchhod, Mare Sarr and Eva Wegner

56: Early childbearing, human capital attainment and mortality risk

Cally Ardington, Alicia Menendez and Tinofa Mutevedzi

55: Health outcomes for children born to teen mothers in Cape Town, South Africa

Nicola Branson, Cally Ardington and Murray Leibbrandt

54: Re-weighting South African National Household Survey Data to create a consistent series over time: A cross entropy estimation approach

Nicola Branson and Martin Wittenberg

53: Throwing the Book at the CSG

Katherine Eyal and Ingrid Woolard

52: Key Issues in the Assessment of Seta Performance in South Africa’s National Skills Development Strategy

Sean Archer

51: The Evolution and Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers in South Africa

Ingrid Woolard and Murray Leibbrandt

50: Impact of Fertility on Objective and Subjective Poverty in Malawi

Richard Mussa

49: Rural-Urban Differences in Parental Spending on Children’s Primary Education in Malawi

Richard Mussa

48: Household Economic Status, Schooling Costs, and Schooling Bias Against Non-biological Children in Malawi

Richard Mussa

47: Population growth, migration, economic growth and poverty in Gauteng since 1970

Charles Simkins

46: Measuring the impact of Educational Interventions on the Academic Performance of Academic Development Students in Second-Year Microeconomics

Leonard Smith and Vimal Ranchhod

45: Wage Subsidies to Combat Unemployment and Poverty: Assessing South Africa’s Options

Justine Burns, Lawrence Edwards and Karl Pauw

44: Evidence on the impact of minimum wage laws in an informal sector: Domestic workers in South Africa

Taryn Dinkelman and Vimal Ranchhod

43: Sexual Risk Taking Among Young Adults in Cape Town: Effects of Expected Health and Income

Mintewab Bezabih, Andrea Mannberg and Martine Visser

42: Parental Loss and Schooling: Evidence from Metropolitan Cape Town

Cally Ardington and Murray Leibbrandt

41: Sample Survey Calibration: An Informationtheoretic perspective

Martin Wittenberg

40: Evaluating the Impact of Health Programmes

Justine Burns, Malcolm Keswell and Rebecca Thornton

39: Weighing the value of Asset Proxies: The case of the Body Mass Index in South Africa

Martin Wittenberg

38: Re-weighting the OHS and LFS National household Survey Data to create a consistent series over time: A Cross Entropy Estimation Approach

Nicola Branson

37: UPE and Social Inequality in Uganda: A Step Backward or a Step in the Right Direction?

Tia L. Zuze and Murray Leibbrandt

36: Finite-Sample Bias and Inconsistency in the Estimation of Poverty Maps

Jesse Naidoo

35: Household responses to adverse income shocks: Pensioner out-migration and mortality in South Africa

Vimal Ranchhod

34: The Effects of the Kalamazoo Promise on College Choice

Rodney Andrews, Stephen DesJardins and Vimal Ranchhod

33: Estimating the Responsiveness of College Applications to the Likelihood of Acceptance and Financial Assistance: Evidence from Texas

Rodney Andrews, Vimal Ranchhod and Vijay Sathy

32: Migration from the Northern Cape

Eldridge Moses and Derek Yu

31: Assessing the Incidence of Public Works Programmes: Using Propensity Score Matching Techniques to Assess the Poverty Targeting of Employment in Two Public Works Programmes in South Africa

Anna McCord and Kate Wilkinson

30: Internal Migration and Poverty in KwaZulu-Natal: Findings from Censuses, Labour Force Surveys and Panel Data

Michael Rogan, Likani Lebani and Nompumelelo Nzimande

29: Estimating expenditure impacts without expenditure data using asset proxies

Martin Wittenberg

28: Lazy Rotten Sons? Relatedness, gender and the intra-household allocation of work and leisure in South Africa

Martin Wittenberg

27: The impact of AIDS on intergenerational support in South Africa: Evidence from the Cape Area Panel Study

Cally Ardington, Anne Case, Mahnaz Islam, David Lam, Murray Leibbrandt, Alicia Menendez and Analia Olgiati

26: Recognising Heterogeneity: A Proposed Typology for Public Works Programmes

Anna McCord

25: The Car Guards of Cape Town: A Public Good Analysis

Hayley McEwen and Anthony Leiman

24: What's in a name? Racial identity and altruism in post-apartheid South Africa

Wilhelm Gerhard van der Merwe and Justine Burns

23: Income Inequality, Reciprocity and Public Good Provision: An Experimental Analysis

Andre Hofmeyr, Justine Burns and Martine Visser

22: Education and Youth Unemployment in South Africa

David Lam, Murray Leibbrandt and Cecil Mlatsheni

21: A Tapestry of People: The Growth of Population in the Province of the Western Cape

Dudley Horner and Francis Wilson

20: The Labour Supply Effects of the South African State Old Age Pension: Theory, Evidence and Implications

Alexis Sienaert

19: Identfying Pure-Income Effects in an Empirical Model of Labour Supply: the case of the South African Social Pension

Katherine Eyal and Malcolm Keswell

18: Schooling as a Lottery: Racial Differences in School Advancement in Urban South Africa

David Lam, Cally Ardington and Murray Leibbrandt

17: Labor supply responses to large social transfers: Longitudinal evidence from South Africa

Cally Ardington, Anne Case and Victoria Hosegood

16: Orphanhood and Schooling in South Africa: Trends in the vulnerability of orphans between 1993 and 2005

Cally Ardington

15: Gender Equity in Mathematics Achievement in East African Primary Schools: Context Counts

Tia Zuze and Valerie Lee

14: Labour Market Transitions in South Africa: What can we learn from matched Labour Force Survey data?

Vimal Ranchhod and Taryn Dinkelman

13: Sequential Regression Multiple Imputation for Incomplete Multivariate Data using Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Miguel Lacerda, Cally Ardington and Murray Leibbrandt

12: Restructuring of Households in Rural South Africa: Reflections on Average Household Size in the Agincourt Sub-district 1992-2003

Martin Wittenberg and Mark Collinson

11: Poverty and Migration: Evidence from the Khayelitsha/Mitchell's Plain Area

Derek Yu and Sihaam Nieftagodien

10: Examining the Degree of Duration Dependence in the Western Cape Labour Market

Kerri Brick and Cecil Mlatsheni

9: Flogging a dead horse: Attempts by van der Berg et al to measure changes in poverty and inequality

Charles Meth

8: The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Nutrition: The South African Child Support Grant

Jorge Agüero, Michael Carter and Ingrid Woolard

7: The South African Labour Market 1995-2004: A Cohort Analysis

Nicola Branson

6: Social Networks, Employment and Worker Discouragement: Evidence from South Africa

Susan Godlonton and Justine Burns

5: The Free Rider Problem in Community-Based Rural Water Supply: A Game Theoretic Analysis

Matthew Breier and Martine Visser

4: Utilisation of Commonages for Sustainable Tourism Opportunities for the Poor in Namaqualand, South Africa

Sharmla Govender-van Wyk and Deon Wilson

3: Assimilation of Immigrants to the Cape Town Labour Market

Jasmin Jakoet

2: Employment status, security, and the management of risk: a study of workers in Kwamsane, KwaZulu-Natal

Francie Lund and Cally Ardington

1: What was the poverty headcount in 2004 and how does it compare to recent estimates by van der Berg et al?

Charles Meth