Publications

Ardington, C., Wills, G. and Kotze, J. (2021) “COVID learning losses: early grade reading in South Africa” International Journal of Educational Development

Ardington, C., Wills, G., Pretorius, E., Mohohlwane, N. and Menendez, A. (2021) “Benchmarking oral reading fluency in the early grades in Nguni languages” International Journal of Educational Development 84

Moshoeshoe, R., Ardington, C. and P. Piraino (2019) “The Effect of the Free Primary Education Policy on School Enrolment and Relative Grade Attainment in Lesotho” Journal of African Economies, ejz007 https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejz007

Ardington, C., Barnighausen, T. Case, A. and A. Menendez (2016) “Social protection and labour market outcomes of youth in South Africa” ILR Review 69(2) pp. 455–470 doi: 10.1177/0019793915611411

Branson, N., Ardington, C. and M. Leibbrandt (2015) “Trends in teenage childbearing and schooling outcomes for children born to teens in South Africa” Economic Development and Cultural Change 63(3) pp. 589-616 doi: 10.1086/679737

Ardington, C., Menendez, A. and T. Mutevedzi (2015) “Early childbearing, human capital attainment and mortality risk,” Economic Development and Cultural Change 63(2) pp. 281-317 doi: 10.1086/678983

Ardington, C., Barnighausen, T. Case, A. and A. Menendez (2014) “The economic consequences of AIDS mortality in South Africa,” Journal of Development Economics 111 pp. 48-60 doi: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2014.08.001

McLaren, Z., Ardington, C. and M. Leibbrandt (2014) “Distance decay and persistent health care disparities in South Africa,” BMC Health Services Research 14:541 doi:10.1186/s12913-014-0541-1

Ardington, C. and A. Case (2014) “Health challenges past and future” in The Oxford Companion to the Economics of South Africa, Oxford University Press, Haroon Bhorat, Alan Hirsch, Ravi Kanbur and Mthuli Ncube (eds.)

Ardington, C., and B. Gasealahwe (2014) “Mortality in South Africa – socioeconomic profile and association with self-reported health,” Development Southern Africa 31(1) pp. 127–145 doi: 10.1080/0376835X.2013.853611

Ardington, C., Branson, N., Lam, D. and M. Leibbrandt (2011) “Explaining the Persistence of Racial Gaps in Schooling in South Africa,” African Population Studies 25(2) pp 509-542.

Lam, D., Ardington, C., and M. Leibbrandt (2011) “Schooling as a Lottery: Racial Differences in School Advancement in Urban South Africa,” Journal of Development Economics 95 pp. 121-136 doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2010.05.005

Ardington, C. and A. Case (2010) “Interactions between mental health and socioeconomic status in the South African National Income Dynamics Study” Studies in Economics and Econometrics 34(3) pp. 69-84

Ardington, C. and M. Leibbrandt (2010) “Orphanhood and Schooling in South Africa: Trends in the vulnerability of orphans between 1993 and 2005.” Economic Development and Cultural Change 58(3) pp. 507-536 doi:10.1086/650414

Ardington, C., A. Case, M. Islam, D. Lam, M. Leibbrandt, A. Menendez and A. Olgiati (2010) “The impact of AIDS on intergenerational support in South Africa: Evidence from the Cape Area Panel Study.” Research on Aging 32(1) pp. 97-121 doi:10.1177/0164027509348143

Ardington, C., Case, A. and V. Hosegood (2009) "Labor Supply Responses to Large Social Transfers: Longitudinal Evidence from South Africa." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 1(1) pp. 22-48 doi:10.1257/app.1.1.22

Case, A. and Ardington, C. (2006) “The Impact of Parental Death on School Enrolment and Achievement: Longitudinal Evidence from South Africa” Demography 43(3) pp. 401-420 doi:10.1353/dem.2006.0022

Ardington, C., Leibbrandt, M., Lam, D., and M. Welch (2006) “The sensitivity of estimates of post-apartheid changes in South African poverty and inequality to key data imputations” Economic Modelling (23) pp. 822-835 doi:10.1016/j.econmod.2005.10.009

Ardington, C., Leibbrandt, M., Lam, D., and J. Levinsohn (2004) “Savings, Insurance and Debt over the Post-apartheid Period: A review of Recent Research” South African Journal of Economics 72(3) pp. 604-640 doi:10.1111/j.1813-6982.2004.tb00128.x