Martin Wittenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 4197667 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Wittenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Wittenberg |
| SIGNATURE | WITTENBERG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1946-8186 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Does the choice of balance-measure matter under genetic matching
Household formation and service delivery in post-apartheid South Africa
South Africa has seen a rapid rate of new household formation since 1994. The same period has also seen an impressive roll-out of housing and services. These interact since new household formation delays the elimination of backlogs. Based on data from the Agincourt study site and a novel decomposition technique we examine the process by which household size has been reduced and suggest that service delivery may actually fuel new household formati…
Aiming for a Moving Target
Decomposing changes in household measures
Household trends are generally tracked by means of repeated cross-sections, such as censuses or nationally representative surveys. However, the trends may be driven either by changes within households over time or the way in which the processes of househol
Problems with SWIID
The Intra-Household Allocation of Work and Leisure in South Africa
Interpretation of Regressions with Multiple Proxies
Multiple proxy variables are typically available for an unobserved explanatory variable in a regression. We provide a procedure by which the coefficient of interest can be estimated from a regression in which all the proxies are included simultaneously. This estimator is superior in large samples to the common practice of creating a summary measure of the proxy variables. We examine the relationship between parents' income and children's reading …
How Young South Africans Spend their Time
South African youth are growing up in a society which is markedly different from that of their elders. The transition to democracy in 1994 has brought with it exciting opportunities and challenges, but youth unemployment has also rocketed during the 1990s. A lot of research and policy work has focused on how to improve the South African education system. The role of the learners in this process has thus far not been scrutinised. This paper examin…
Opening the City
Aiming for a Moving Target
Decomposing changes in household measures
Household trends are generally tracked by means of repeated cross-sections, such as censuses or nationally representative surveys. However, the trends may be driven either by changes within households over time or the way in which the processes of househol
Problems with SWIID
Opening the City
How Young South Africans Spend their Time
South African youth are growing up in a society which is markedly different from that of their elders. The transition to democracy in 1994 has brought with it exciting opportunities and challenges, but youth unemployment has also rocketed during the 1990s. A lot of research and policy work has focused on how to improve the South African education system. The role of the learners in this process has thus far not been scrutinised. This paper examin…
Interpretation of Regressions with Multiple Proxies
Multiple proxy variables are typically available for an unobserved explanatory variable in a regression. We provide a procedure by which the coefficient of interest can be estimated from a regression in which all the proxies are included simultaneously. This estimator is superior in large samples to the common practice of creating a summary measure of the proxy variables. We examine the relationship between parents' income and children's reading …
The Intra-Household Allocation of Work and Leisure in South Africa
Problems with SWIID
Aiming for a Moving Target
Decomposing changes in household measures
Household trends are generally tracked by means of repeated cross-sections, such as censuses or nationally representative surveys. However, the trends may be driven either by changes within households over time or the way in which the processes of househol
Household formation and service delivery in post-apartheid South Africa
South Africa has seen a rapid rate of new household formation since 1994. The same period has also seen an impressive roll-out of housing and services. These interact since new household formation delays the elimination of backlogs. Based on data from the Agincourt study site and a novel decomposition technique we examine the process by which household size has been reduced and suggest that service delivery may actually fuel new household formati…
Does the choice of balance-measure matter under genetic matching
Economics (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Econometrics (3 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)