Completed Projects

A network of young leaders equipped to drive change for the public good across South Africa. The project aims to connect youth who have the skills, sense of self and spark to address tough challenges ...

SALDRU has done a range of work on social grants over the last few years, resulting in the production of four papers on the child support grant and cash transfers in relation to schooling and nutrition.

Three reports compiled for the OECD on youth unemployment in SA, trends in income distribution and poverty as well as labour markets, poverty and inequality since the fall of apartheid.

In September 2012, over 500 people gathered for a five-day conference entitled, “Towards Carnegie3: Strategies to Overcome Poverty & Inequality” and launched the Carnegie3 Inquiry, at the request of the National Planning Commission.

This project analyses the impact of Chinese competition on South African manufacturing, including the impacts of bilateral trade and Chinese competition.

The COVID-19 Vaccine Survey (CVACS) aimed to collect high quality, timely information to inform the development of campaigns and programmes to improve COVID-19 vaccination uptake in South Africa.

The Data Quality Project was a joint project between SALDRU and DataFirst intended to improve the quality of the analyses produced in South African household studies.

This project was undertaken for CHET Trust. The major aim of this research project was to see what South African household surveys

The study aims to provide the WHO with a deeper understanding of the relationship between alcohol excise taxes, alcohol prices and alcohol consumption, for various categories.

The Economics of Tobacco Control Project (ECTP) aimed to expand current research efforts in the economics of tobacco control and to enhance the knowledge of economic and tax issues among tobacco control advocates and policymakers

REDI3x3 is a national research programme aimed at deepening understanding of the dynamics of employment, incomes and economic trends.

The developmental goal of EPRU will be to bring about poverty reduction through sustainable development. EPRU's immediate goal will be to promote quality and innovation in the teaching, research and advisory services on environmental policy

This research focuses on the question of state intervention to promote employment and reduce poverty through public works, and encompasses three strands of work. It examines the nature and impact of public works programmes in Africa ...

This project brought together researchers from the United States and South Africa to analyze patterns of family support and intergenerational transfers in South Africa.

Building on 15 years of collaboration between the principal investigators, this project uses unique longitudinal data to analyse the impact of fertility timing on women’s long-run economic outcomes in South Africa.

This project brought together economists and demographers from the University of Cape Town and the University of Michigan to analyse the links between fertility, intergenerational transfers and economic development in South Africa.

The objective of the financial diaries was to develop a multi-dimensional, comprehensive set of data on household financial management that was both qualitative and quantitative.

Novel interventions are urgently needed to improve linkage to HIV treatment and care post-diagnosis, as increased ART coverage will reduce AIDS-related morbidity and mortality, and HIV incidence.

SALDRU was commissioned by the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) and the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) to undertake a comprehensive evaluation of the impacts of the Land Restitution Programme ...

This project will take advantage of the new longitudinal National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) together with other South African datasets to investigate a range of issues around the links between malnutrition and socioeconomic status.

This initiative enables a new body of evidence on how past structural changes in the Zimbabwean economy during the period of economic crisis affected labour markets, as well as how future growth and structural change link ...

The National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) is the first national household panel study in South Africa, which started in 2008 with a sample of 28000 people. The first five iterations or "waves" of NIDS were implemented by SALDRU.

NOPOOR aims to build new knowledge on the nature and extent of poverty in developing countries to provide policymakers with a broader understanding of poverty. The project identifies key mechanisms...

This project seeks to understand the causes of structural poverty as opposed to transitory poverty or increased vulnerability to becoming poor, the role of access to social networks or social capital, migration and inter-generational ...

Most land reforms occur during epochs of social strife and political upheaval, and in countries where land reforms are undertaken during periods of relative normality, participation by the beneficiaries is often selective.

The Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme (SCAP) was a three-year initiative aimed at increasing the publication and visibility of African research through harnessing the potential for scholarly communication in the digital age.

Little is known about whether each rand of social grant receipt generates more than immediate income relief. Specifically, do these income flows help vulnerable individuals and households successfully integrate into the labour market ...

South Africa Persistent Inequality Research (SAPIR) seeks to shed light on the factors that account for persistently high inequality. Its goal is to build an integrated body of research on the mechanisms underlying the persistence of ...

This project aims to ensure that the rich panel data available in CAPS and NIDS are used to their best advantage by putting in place and building the capacity of a core group of senior, middle and emerging researchers to undertake the ...

Prof. Murray Leibbrandt was the South African Research Chair in Poverty and Inequality Research. The work of this Chair was focused on a sustained programme of research to measure and analyse the unfolding social dynamics within ...

A project examining the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for inequalities in the post-school system.

The Trade and Poverty project was a research project which studied the effect of international trade on poverty in Africa. The project focussed on two key channels through which international trade affects poverty...

his project for the Department of Social Development evaluated the merits of a wage subsidy programme to promote employment in SA. A primary intention was to provide a framework that could be used to evaluate the appropriateness of ...