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

Maughan-Brown, Brendan Geoffrey; Venkataramani, Atheendar; … - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2015

and socioeconomically vulnerable populations. Methods: We used data from the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS, n=18 …

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

Branson, Nicola; Kekana, Dineo; Lam, David - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2013

low income households and grant recipients access to free education. Little is however known about how these policies have …

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

Woolard, Ingrid; Eyal, Katherine - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2013

The extension of the Child Support Grant in South Africa to all children aged 17 or under gives the opportunity to evaluate this type of social transfer and its effect on school enrolment. Using exogenous variation in the fraction of life exposed to the grant, we find the grant is associated...

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Earnings volatility in South Africa

Ranchhod, Vimal - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2013

determinant of welfare, both in terms of poverty and inequality. These are a function of both the high levels of unemployment as …

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Rural Livelihoods in South Africa

Daniels, Reza Che; Partridge, Andrew; Kekana, Dineo; … - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2013

as households become more dependent on government grants while moving away from agricultural-based activities … sector; and finally that there is indeed evidence that de-agrarianisation is taking place in the NIDS rural sample, with …

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Unemployment and Household formation

Woolard, Ingrid; Leibbrandt, Murray; Ebrahim, Amina - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2013

In comparison to other continents, Africa has received little scholarly attention with regard to household composition. Household composition is endogenous to a variety of welfare issues and little is understood about the determinants of this composition. Understanding the household composition...

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Food expenditure patterns in South Africa: Evidence from the NIDS

Daniels, Reza Che; Mhlongo, Vukile - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2013

used to compare the exposure and sensitivity to changing expenditure capacity between waves. We find that households were … in most households by looking at budget shares. The sensitivity of the share of total expenditure dedicated to food … varies with expenditure capacity. The effect of food price inflation on all households in South Africa is conjectured to …

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

Abel, Martin - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2013

Employing South Africa's first nationally representative panel data set, I find that having old age pension recipients in the household adversely affects employment outcomes of prime-aged adults both by reducing the probability that the unemployed find work and by increasing the likelihood that...

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

Finn, Arden; Ranchhod, Vimal - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2013

We document how we diagnosed data fabrication in the National Income Dynamics Study. Since the fabrication was detected while fieldwork was still on-going, the relevant interviews were re-conducted and the fabricated data were replaced with authentic data. To the best of our knowledge, this is...

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Poverty and inequality estimates of National Income Dynamics Study revisited

Yu, Derek - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2013

African poverty and inequality analyses. In addition to the fact that NIDS is the first national panel study of individuals in …The National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), introduced since 2008, has become an alternative data source for the South …, after imputations, was the preferred variable for deriving the poverty and inequality estimates. This paper examines if the …

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