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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"National Income Dynamics Study"”.
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Education and labor market outcomes in South Africa: evidence from the National Income Dynamics Study
… market outcomes. Using data from South Africa's National Income Dynamics Study, this thesis explores this relationship. It does this firstly, by examining the effect of school quality measured by school inputs-pupil-teacher ratio and expenditure per pupil-on educational attainment in South …
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Estimating adult mortality in South Africa using orphanhood and year of death data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study
The overall objective of this research is to investigate whether using year of death data to produce estimates of time location is a better approach than the method developed by Brass and Bamgboye (1981) and whether estimates of mortality produced using year of death data are any better than those …
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Money does not buy happiness… or does it? An investigation of the relationship between individual income and life satisfaction in the national income dynamics study
On 1 January 2019, South Africa introduced a national minimum wage of R20 per hour. Minimum wages have been said to merely satisfy basic needs and not allow individuals to thrive; thus, not allowing for a decent life. Past research has argued for the importance of living wages, which are defined as …
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The effects of socio-demographic factors on depression and perceived health status among a cohort of young people (15-24) in South Africa: evidence from the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) waves 1-5
… level, employment status, relative household income, race, age and gender) and the modifying effect of depression on PHS have been investigated among a cohort of young adults using data from the South African National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) waves 1-5. South Africa is a middle-income …
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Gender and life-cycle differentials in the correlates of adult ill health in South Africa
This study investigates the gender and life-cycle differentials in the socio-economic co-variates of adult self-evaluated ill health in South Africa using data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study wave 1 survey.
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Measuring Wages and Inequality in South Africa Using Two Nationally Representative Data Series
The National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) and the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series (PALMS) are two data sources frequently relied upon for research into earnings in South Africa. This paper contributes to the literature in three ways. Firstly, I show how NIDS data can be adjusted to account for …
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Evaluating the impact of higher education on income poverty in South Africa
… antipoverty mechanism among South Africa. This study investigates the impact of higher education on income poverty in South Africa. To conduct this analysis, we utilized data from the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) spanning from Wave 1 to Wave 5.
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Strategies of the unemployed: does moving allow the unemployed to get ahead?
… panel sample of the first three waves of the National Income Dynamics Study (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit [SALDRU], 2013c). We find that in response to unemployment and almost no unemployment insurance, unemployed individuals look to parents, relatives and friends for …
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Financial inclusion in South Africa: a quasi-experimental approach
A regressive discontinuity was implemented on the National Income Dynamics Study data in order to assess the impact of an exogenous increase in income, simulated by pension eligibility on the composition of low-income individuals' financial portfolio composition. This was done to facilitate an …
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The Effect of Paternal Education on Child Health in South Africa: A Longitudinal Analysis
… paternal education has on child health. This study uses the first four waves of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) in order to conduct a longitudinal analysis. This dissertation uses random-effects regression to study the effect of paternal education and presence on height-for-age …
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Socioeconomics of tobacco use in the Southern African Customs Union
… for Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland; and the National Income Dynamics Study for South Africa. This paper finds that among both men and women, cigarette use is higher in urban areas, while the use of chewing tobacco, snuff, and pipes is generally higher in rural areas. Also, this paper finds …
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Investigating the relationship between social capital and self-rated health in South Africa
… relationship in developing countries. This study examined this research gap using data from the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), the first nationally representative panel study in South Africa. Information regarding social capital - norms of reciprocity, association activity, trust and …
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Analysing the socioeconomic determinants of hypertension in South Africa: A structural equation modelling approach
… North America, while research in low- and middle-income countries at an earlier stage of the epidemiological transition revealed mixed patterns. The causal mechanisms underlying these varying relationships are largely unknown. Only in recent years the pathways through which SES impacts the …
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Investigating the relationship between social capital and self-rated health in South Africa
… relationship in developing countries. This study examined this research gap using data from the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), the first nationally representative panel study in South Africa. Information regarding social capital - norms of reciprocity, association activity, trust and …
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Investigating family social capital and child health: a case study of South Africa
… well investigated in developing countries. This study assessed socioeconomic inequalities in child health and in family social capital in South Africa. It also assessed the relationship between family social capital and child health. Four waves of the National Income Dynamics Study panel data …
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Fertility, age, and the motherhood wage penalty in South Africa
… on wages for women. In this dissertation, I study the effects of fertility on wages for African women in South Africa. Using the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), I study the changes in wages experienced by mothers and non-mothers using panel data methods, as well as Ordinary Least …
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Assessing the impact of government grants on poverty and inequality: a microsimulation study in South African
… (statistics SA,2014). The main objective of this study is to critically examine the impact of selected government grant programs on poverty and inequality in South Africa. The study estimates households' consumption function using the third wave of National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) of South …
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Determinants of wealth in South Africa
… of household wealth in South Africa, using the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) Wave 2. In particular, we look at the effect s of the wealth-age profile and other household demographic variables. The hump-shaped profile of the wealth and age relationship suggested by the life-cycle …
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Testing the relationship between public and private transfers : empirical evidence from South Africa
… I use data from the first three waves of the National Income Dynamics Study, a nationally-representative panel survey from South Africa. To overcome problems of endogeneity, I use pension age-eligibility to instrument for reported pension receipt and use a sharp regression discontinuity design …
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Agricultural change and farmworker living standards in post-apartheid South Africa
… of these changes with the prospects of low-income farmworkers and farm dwellers through exploring two interlinked questions. The first of these asks whether consolidation in the industry has extended to growing firm size and in-turn, whether farmworkers in larger firms earn higher wages than …
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