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SALDRU Working Papers / Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town

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5 Years IF
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IF AIF CIF IF5 DOC CDO CIT NCI CCU D2Y C2Y D5Y C5Y SC %SC CiY II AII
2006 0 0.58 0.75 0 8 8 93 6 7 0 0 5 83.3 6 0.75 0.34
2007 0.5 0.52 0.28 0.5 10 18 49 5 12 8 4 8 4 1 20 1 0.1 0.29
2008 0.78 0.58 0.54 0.78 8 26 52 14 26 18 14 18 14 2 14.3 0 0.29
2009 0.17 0.58 0.14 0.23 16 42 45 6 32 18 3 26 6 0 0 0.33
2010 0.42 0.53 0.35 0.38 10 52 62 18 50 24 10 42 16 1 5.6 0 0.3
2011 0.23 0.61 0.38 0.38 21 73 69 26 78 26 6 52 20 9 34.6 2 0.1 0.37
2012 0.35 0.67 0.38 0.34 18 91 68 33 113 31 11 65 22 6 18.2 1 0.06 0.36
2013 0.56 0.65 0.46 0.48 43 134 226 62 175 39 22 73 35 25 40.3 9 0.21 0.34
2014 0.36 0.67 0.45 0.36 14 148 31 67 242 61 22 108 39 6 9 5 0.36 0.34
2015 0.4 0.65 0.33 0.36 21 169 102 56 298 57 23 106 38 8 14.3 3 0.14 0.36
2016 0.54 0.63 0.64 0.49 35 204 95 128 429 35 19 117 57 29 22.7 8 0.23 0.34
2017 0.48 0.61 0.47 0.44 19 223 66 104 533 56 27 131 57 15 14.4 8 0.42 0.34
2018 0.44 0.6 0.38 0.38 18 241 73 91 624 54 24 132 50 0 9 0.5 0.34
2019 0.65 0.61 0.38 0.5 24 265 22 100 724 37 24 107 54 0 0 0.35
2020 0.21 0.68 0.36 0.36 17 282 36 102 826 42 9 117 42 0 2 0.12 0.72
2021 0.51 0.87 0.37 0.42 13 295 2 110 936 41 21 113 48 0 0 0.36
2022 0.3 0.66 0.35 0.38 3 298 0 105 1041 30 9 91 35 0 0 0.21
2023 0 0.48 0.16 0.19 13 311 4 50 1091 16 75 14 0 2 0.15 0.16
2024 0.06 0.47 0.19 0.1 7 318 0 59 1150 16 1 70 7 0 0 0.18
IF: Two years Impact Factor: C2Y / D2Y
AIF: Average Impact Factor for all series in RePEc in year y
CIF: Cumulative impact factor
IF5: Five years Impact Factor: C5Y / D5Y
DOC: Number of documents published in year y
CDO: Cumulative number of documents published until year y
CIT: Number of citations to papers published in year y
NCI: Number of citations in year y
CCU: Cumulative number of citations to papers published until year y
D2Y: Number of articles published in y-1 plus y-2
C2Y: Cites in y to articles published in y-1 plus y-2
D5Y: Number of articles published in y-1 until y-5
C5Y: Cites in y to articles published in y-1 until y-5
SC: selft citations in y to articles published in y-1 plus y-2
%SC: Percentage of selft citations in y to articles published in y-1 plus y-2
CiY: Cites in year y to documents published in year y
II: Immediacy Index: CiY / Documents.
AII: Average Immediacy Index for series in RePEc in year y
50 most cited documents in this series
#YearTitleCited
12013Military Expenditure, Economic Growth and Heterogeneity. (2013). Tian, Nan ; Dunne, John. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:095.

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22006The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Nutrition: The South African Child Support Grant. (2006). Woolard, Ingrid ; Carter, Michael ; Agüero, Jorge ; Aguero, Jorge M.. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:8.

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32010The Evolution and Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers in South Africa. (2010). Woolard, Ingrid ; Leibbrandt, Murray. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:51.

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42018Spatial poverty and inequality in South Africa: A municipality level analysis. (2018). Shifa, Muna ; Leibbrandt, Murray ; Hiroyuki, Hino ; Hamaguchi, Nobuaki ; Guilbert, Nathalie ; David, Anda ; Higashi, Yudai. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:221.

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52018More Legislation, More Violence? The Impact of Dodd-Frank in the DRC. (2018). Verpoorten, Marijke ; Stoop, Nik ; van der Windt, Peter. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:231.

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62007Labor supply responses to large social transfers: Longitudinal evidence from South Africa. (2007). Case, Anne ; Ardington, Cally ; Hosegood, Victoria. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:17.

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22
72013What happened to multidimensional poverty in South Africa between 1993 and 2010?. (2013). Woolard, Ingrid ; Leibbrandt, Murray ; Finn, Arden. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:099.

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82015South African poverty lines: a review and two new money-metric thresholds. (2015). Woolard, Ingrid ; Leibbrandt, Murray ; Budlender, Josh . In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:151.

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20
92015Managing Risk with Insurance and Savings: Experimental Evidence for Male and Female Farm Managers in the Sahel. (2015). Petraud, Jean Paul ; Hill, Ruth ; Delavallade, Clara ; Dizon, Felipe. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:142.

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102016Capital Flight and Foreign Direct Investment in Africa: An Investigation of the Role of Natural Resource Endowment. (2016). Sarr, Mare ; NDIKUMANA, LEONCE. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:167.

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112013Unintended labour supply effects of cash transfer programmes: Evidence from South Africas old age pension. (2013). Abel, Martin. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:114.

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122017The value of reference letters. (2017). Piraino, Patrizio ; Burger, Rulof ; Abel, Martin. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:207.

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132008Education and Youth Unemployment in South Africa. (2008). Leibbrandt, Murray ; Lam, David ; Mlatsheni, Cecil. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:22.

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142015A National Minimum Wage in the Context of the South African Labour Market. (2015). Finn, Arden. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:153.

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152010Evidence on the impact of minimum wage laws in an informal sector: Domestic workers in South Africa. (2010). Ranchhod, Vimal ; Dinkelman, Taryn. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:44.

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162011Estimating the effect of adolescent fertility on educational attainment in Cape Town using a propensity score weighted regression. (2011). Ranchhod, Vimal ; Marteleto, Leticia ; Leibbrandt, Murray ; Lam, David. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:59.

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15
172017Measurement of earnings: Comparing South African tax and survey data. (2017). Wittenberg, Martin. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:212.

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15
182013Progress through school and the determinants of school dropout in South Africa. (2013). Lam, David ; Branson, Nicola ; Hofmeyr, Clare . In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:100.

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15
192009Re-weighting the OHS and LFS National household Survey Data to create a consistent series over time: A Cross Entropy Estimation Approach. (2009). Branson, Nicola. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:38.

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14
202015Problems with SWIID: the case of South Africa. (2015). Wittenberg, Martin. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:148.

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13
212007Schooling as a Lottery: Racial Differences in School Advancement in Urban South Africa. (2007). Leibbrandt, Murray ; Lam, David ; Ardington, Cally. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:18.

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13
222011Throwing the Book at the CSG. (2011). Woolard, Ingrid ; Eyal, Katherine. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:53.

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13
232012Education and Inequality: The South African Case. (2012). Leibbrandt, Murray ; Lam, David ; Branson, Nicola ; Garlick, Julia . In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:75.

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13
242013The influence of social transfers on labour supply: A South African and international review. (2013). Woolard, Ingrid ; Lilenstein, Kezia ; Leibbrandt, Murray ; Shenker, Callie . In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:112.

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12
252008The Labour Supply Effects of the South African State Old Age Pension: Theory, Evidence and Implications. (2008). Sienaert, Alexis. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:20.

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12
262016Measuring multidimensional poverty among youth in South Africa at the sub-national level. (2016). Leibbrandt, Murray ; Frame, Emily ; de Lannoy, Ariane. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:169.

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11
272010Wage Subsidies to Combat Unemployment and Poverty: Assessing South Africa’s Options. (2010). Pauw, Karl ; Edwards, Lawrence ; Burns, Justine. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:45.

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282011Early childbearing, human capital attainment and mortality risk. (2011). Menendez, Alicia ; Ardington, Cally ; Mutevedzi, Tinofa. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:56.

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10
292020Enterprising women in Southern Africa: When does land ownership matter?. (2020). Tregenna, Fiona ; Brixiová Schwidrowski, Zuzana ; Kangoye, Thierry. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:258.

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302008Whats in a name? Racial identity and altruism in post-apartheid South Africa. (2008). van der Merwe, Wilhelm Gerhard ; Burns, Justine. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:24.

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312020Locked down and locked out: Repurposing social assistance as emergency relief to informal workers. (2020). Jain, Ronak ; Zizzamia, Rocco ; Budlender, Joshua ; Bassier, Ihsaan. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:264.

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322012Income Mobility in South Africa: Evidence from the First Two Waves of the National Income Dynamics Study. (2012). Leibbrandt, Murray ; Finn, Arden ; Levinsohn, James. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:82.

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332016Drivers of Inequality in South Africa. (2016). Woolard, Ingrid ; Leibbrandt, Murray ; Hundenborn, Janina. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:194.

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342006What was the poverty headcount in 2004 and how does it compare to recent estimates by van der Berg et al?. (2006). Meth, Charles. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:1.

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352020Labour market dynamics in South Africa in the time of COVID-19: Evidence from wave 1 of the NIDS-CRAM survey. (2020). Ranchhod, Vimal ; Daniels, Reza. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:265.

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9
362010Impact of Fertility on Objective and Subjective Poverty in Malawi. (2010). Mussa, Richard. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:50.

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372011The Policies for Reducing Income Inequality and Poverty in South Africa. (2011). Leibbrandt, Murray ; Finn, Arden ; Wegner, Eva. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:64.

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382020Locked down and locked out: Repurposing social assistance as emergency relief to informal workers. (2020). Ranchhod, Vimal ; Leibbrandt, Murray ; Zizzamia, Rocco ; Budlender, Joshua ; Bassier, Ihsaan. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:261.

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392012Government spending, corruption and economic growth. (2012). Pieroni, Luca ; Dunne, John ; d'Agostino, Giorgio ; J. P Dunne, . In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:74.

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402013The dynamics of poverty in the first three waves of NIDS. (2013). Leibbrandt, Murray ; Finn, Arden. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:119.

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8
412016Patterns of persistence: Intergenerational mobility and education in South Africa. (2016). Ranchhod, Vimal ; Leibbrandt, Murray ; Finn, Arden. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:175.

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422016Vulnerability and the Middle Class in South Africa. (2016). Ranchhod, Vimal ; Leibbrandt, Murray ; Schotte, Simone ; Zizzamia, Rocco. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:188.

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8
432015Estimating the Effects of South Africas Youth Employment Tax Incentive – An Update. (2015). Ranchhod, Vimal ; Finn, Arden. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:152.

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8
442017Public pensions and elderly informal employment: Evidence from a change in retirement age in South Africa. (2017). Woolard, Ingrid ; Ardington, Cally ; Tondini, Alessandro. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:206.

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452012Education: Analysis of the NIDS Wave 1 and 2 Datasets. (2012). Lam, David ; Branson, Nicola ; Zuze, Linda. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:81.

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8
462013Social protection and labour market outcomes of youth in South Africa. (2013). Menendez, Alicia ; Case, Anne ; Ardington, Cally ; Barnighausen, Till. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:096.

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472014Estimating the short run effects of South Africas Employment Tax Incentive on youth employment probabilities using a difference-in-differences approach. (2014). Ranchhod, Vimal ; Finn, Arden. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:134.

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7
482017Public sector wages and employment in South Africa. (2017). Wittenberg, Martin ; Kerr, Andrew. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:214.

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492015Measuring Inequality by Asset Indices: A general approach with application to South Africa. (2015). Wittenberg, Martin ; Leibbrandt, Murray. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:141.

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7
502013The impact of chinese import penetration on the south african manufacturing sector. (2013). Edwards, Lawrence ; Jenkins, Rhys. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:102.

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50 most relevant documents in this series (papers most cited in the last two years)
#YearTitleCited
12013Military Expenditure, Economic Growth and Heterogeneity. (2013). Tian, Nan ; Dunne, John. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:095.

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19
22020Enterprising women in Southern Africa: When does land ownership matter?. (2020). Tregenna, Fiona ; Brixiová Schwidrowski, Zuzana ; Kangoye, Thierry. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:258.

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4
32015Managing Risk with Insurance and Savings: Experimental Evidence for Male and Female Farm Managers in the Sahel. (2015). Petraud, Jean Paul ; Hill, Ruth ; Delavallade, Clara ; Dizon, Felipe. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:142.

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4
42018Spatial poverty and inequality in South Africa: A municipality level analysis. (2018). Shifa, Muna ; Leibbrandt, Murray ; Hiroyuki, Hino ; Hamaguchi, Nobuaki ; Guilbert, Nathalie ; David, Anda ; Higashi, Yudai. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:221.

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4
52011Throwing the Book at the CSG. (2011). Woolard, Ingrid ; Eyal, Katherine. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:53.

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4
62018More Legislation, More Violence? The Impact of Dodd-Frank in the DRC. (2018). Verpoorten, Marijke ; Stoop, Nik ; van der Windt, Peter. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:231.

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4
72009Household responses to adverse income shocks: Pensioner out-migration and mortality in South Africa. (2009). Ranchhod, Vimal. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:35.

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3
82017Measurement of earnings: Comparing South African tax and survey data. (2017). Wittenberg, Martin. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:212.

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3
92006The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Nutrition: The South African Child Support Grant. (2006). Woolard, Ingrid ; Carter, Michael ; Agüero, Jorge ; Aguero, Jorge M.. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:8.

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3
102008The Labour Supply Effects of the South African State Old Age Pension: Theory, Evidence and Implications. (2008). Sienaert, Alexis. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:20.

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3
112013The influence of social transfers on labour supply: A South African and international review. (2013). Woolard, Ingrid ; Lilenstein, Kezia ; Leibbrandt, Murray ; Shenker, Callie . In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:112.

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3
122012Contribution Norms in Heterogeneous Groups: A Climate Change Framing. (2012). Visser, Martine ; Van der Hoven, Zoe ; Brick, Kerri. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:77.

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2
132018Social cohesion and inequality in South Africa. (2018). Shifa, Muna ; Leibbrandt, Murray ; Hiroyuki, Hino ; Guilbert, Nathalie ; David, Anda ; Potgieter, Elnari. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:219.

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2
142018From definition to measurement: constructing a social cohesion index for South Africa. (2018). Njozela, Lindokuhle ; Lefko-Everett, Kate ; Burns, Justine. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:217.

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2
152015Estimating the Effects of South Africas Youth Employment Tax Incentive – An Update. (2015). Ranchhod, Vimal ; Finn, Arden. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:152.

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2
162016Analysing the links between child health and education outcomes: Evidence from NIDS Waves 1 – 4. (2016). Casale, Daniela. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:179.

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2
172018Identity, inequality and social contestation in the Post-Apartheid South Africa. (2018). Machema, Ratjomose ; Leibbrandt, Murray ; Hiroyuki, Hino ; Shifa, Muna ; Soudien, Crain. In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:233.

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2
182016Cross-Sectional Features of Wealth Inequality in South Africa: Evidence from the National Income Dynamics Study. (2016). Woolard, Ingrid ; Mbewe, Samson . In: SALDRU Working Papers. RePEc:ldr:wpaper:185.

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Citing documents used to compute impact factor: 1
YearTitle
2025Harnessing the Direct and Indirect Effects of Agriculture on Health and Nutrition to Accelerate Human Capital Development in Kenya: Evidence from Household Surveys. (2025). Wambugu, Anthony ; Mwabu, Germano. In: Economies. RePEc:gam:jecomi:v:13:y:2025:i:9:p:266-:d:1746140.

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Recent citations
Recent citations received in 2023
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2023Fiscal policy and dimensions of inequality in South Africa: A time-varying coefficient approach. (2023). Hollander, Hylton ; Terblanche, Jeanne ; van Lill, Dawie. In: Working Papers. RePEc:sza:wpaper:wpapers381.

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2023Exploring options to deepen and broaden the personal income tax base in South Africa. (2023). Pirttilä, Jukka ; Ollonqvist, Joonas ; Barnes, Helen ; Wright, Gemma ; McLennan, David ; Jansen, Ada ; Steyn, Wynnona ; Ngobeni, Winile ; Noble, Michael ; Gasior, Katrin ; Pirttila, Jukka. In: WIDER Working Paper Series. RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2023-147.

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