RESEP working papers completed in the year 2021. Papers are freely available in electronic format (PDF) on this website for downloading, and interested researchers are encouraged to make use of this facility. Note: If you have trouble viewing any of the PDF files, your PDF viewer software may need to be updated.
Three international testing programmes, including PIRLS, point to educational quality improvements in South Africa during the period 2002 to 2019. The gains were substantial, relative to the steepness of improvements seen in other countries. What lay behind these trends? National education quality trends are not easy to explain, and this is seldom attempted in a systematic manner.
An emerging interdisciplinary literature explores how kinship practices affect household resource allocation through efficiency of production and consumption. This paper focuses on a key gender norm – how a resource transfer to households affects school drop out of girls relative to boys, under different kinship practices.
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