This paper tests, using data from South Africa and Pakistan, two major implications of the unitary household model, namely, that (a) each individual pools the various components of her/his non labour earnings, and (b) men and women pool their non labour earnings between themselves. The study...

This paper investigates the changes to health care facilities and the nutritional status of Black children during the first 5 years of democratic rule in South Africa.

This paper uses data from Peru, Pakistan and Ghana to simultaneously analyse child labour and child schooling, and compares them between these countries. We use a multinomial logit estimation procedure that analyses the participation and non participation of children in schooling and in...

Fertility and child mortality are supposed to have a two-way relationship. First, woment who experience more child deaths go on to bear more children compared to women whose children survive. Second, the risk of children ying is higher among women who have been pregnant more times. Using a unit...

This paper examines optimal investment in children's schooling using a two-period model. Children are assumed to contribute in an economic sense through child labour when they are young and through old-age security as adults. Parents therefore face a trade-off between current and future returns...

This paper examines the patterns of inter-household transfers using a national survey data from South Africa. Compared to an African household, a non-African is less likely to receive and send private transfers. Further the amount of transfers sent and received is also lower for White, Indian...

This paper examines the effects of individual, household and community characteristics on two aspects of fertility among South African women the age at first conception and the number of pregnancies. We find that education has a significant effect in pushing back the age at first conception and...