"This paper examines the effects of early childhood nutrition on schooling inputs and outcomes to assess the dynamic nature of human capital production, using panel data from South Africa.

"To examine how local income distribution affects both a community’s ability to pay for schooling and the quality of that schooling, this research merges household and school census data from South Africa. Empirical results are twofold.

"This paper examines dynamic changes in educational quality and equity differences in the public school system between Black and other racial groups in post-apartheid South Africa, using the ratio of learners to educators in each school, avai

"This paper assesses the economy-wide impact of implementing and financing a universal or basic income grant (BIG) in South Africa.

This paper explores the relationship between group membership and trust.

South African households live in an environment characterized by risks, and many face a significant probability of experiencing economic losses that threaten their daily subsistence.

This paper examines the relationship between community participation and the efficacy of interventions designed to reduce poverty.

This paper uses project and household data to examine the ability of 100 or so public works projects in Western Cape Province, South Africa, to target benefits—both direct and indirect—to those living below the poverty line.

The paper reviews recent theory and empirical evidence testing unitary versus collective models of the household.

Longitudinal household data can have considerable advantages over much more widely used cross-sectional data. The collection of longitudinal data, however, may be difficult and expensive.

This paper examines attrition in the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study (1993–1998) and assesses the extent of attrition bias for a specific empirical example.

The goal of this paper is to determine the nature of the causal relationship between social capital, as measured by household membership in formal and informal groups and household welfare in South Africa.