CURRICULUM VITAE – CALLY ARDINGTON

CONTACT INFORMATION

Office Address: Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU)

New Economics Building

University of Cape Town

Private Bag x03 Rondebosch, 7701

South Africa

Phone: +27 (0) 21 650 2749

Fax: +27 (0) 21 650 5697

Email:

EDUCATION

2009 PhD in Economics, University of Cape Town

1997 MSc in Operations Research, University of Cape Town.

1995 BSc (Hons) in Operations Research, University of Cape Town

Awarded in the first class.

1994 BSc, University of Cape Town

Degree awarded with distinction and with distinction in Computer Science and Mathematics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2011- Associate Professor, Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), University of Cape Town

2007-2010 Senior Research Officer, SALDRU, University of Cape Town

2005-2008 Survey Manager, Cape Area Panel Study, SALDRU, University of Cape Town

2002-2007 Lecturer, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town.

1999-2001 Structured Debt and Equity Solutions Specialist, African Harvest, Cape Town

1997-1998 Market Risk Analyst, NatWest Markets, London

SELECTED PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Ardington, C., and B. Gasealahwe (forthcoming) “Mortality in South Africa – socio-economic profile and association with self-reported health,” Development Southern Africa

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

WORKING PAPERS

Ardington, C., Barnighausen, T. Case, A. and A. Menendez (2012) “Economic consequences of death in South Africa” SALDRU Working Paper No. 91

Ardington, C., and Gasealahwe, B (2012). “Health Analysis of the NIDS Wave1 and 2 Datasets.” SALDRU Working Paper Number 80/ NIDS Discussion Paper 2012/3

Ardington, C., Menendez, A. And T. Mutevedzi (2011) “Early childbearing, human capital attainment and mortality risk.” SALDRU Working Paper 56


Branson, N., C. Ardington and M. Leibbrandt (2011) “Health outcomes for children born to teen mothers in Cape Town, South Africa.” SALDRU Working Paper 55


Ardington, C. and M. Leibbrandt (2009) “Parental Loss and Schooling: Evidence from Metropolitan Cape Town.” SALDRU Working Paper 42

Ardington, C. and Case, A. (2009) “Health: Analysis of the NIDS Wave 1 Dataset” NiDS Discussion Paper No.2

Ardington, C. (2007) "Orphanhood and Schooling in South Africa: Trends in the vulnerability of orphans between 1993 and 2005." ERSA Working Paper 76 and SALDRU Working Paper 16

Ardington, C., Case, A. and V. Hosegood (2007) "Labor Supply Responses to Large Social Transfers: Longitudinal Evidence from South Africa." ERSA Working Paper 59, NBER Working Paper 13442 and SALDRU Working Paper 17

Lam, D., Ardington, C., and M. Leibbrandt (2007) “Schooling as a Lottery: Racial Differences in School Advancement in Urban South Africa.” ERSA Working Paper 56 and SALDRU Working Paper 18

Lacerda, M., Ardington, C. and M. Leibbrandt (2007) “Sequential Regression Multiple Imputation for Incomplete Multivariate Data using Markov Chain Monte Carlo.” SALDRU Working Paper 13

Lund, F. and Ardington, C. (2006) “Employment status, security, and the management of risk: a study of workers in Kwamsane, KwaZulu-Natal” School of Development Studies Working Paper 45, University of KwaZulu-Natal and Southern African Labour Development Research Unit Working Paper 06/02, University of Cape Town

Ardington, C., Leibbrandt, M., Lam, D., and M. Welch (2005) “The sensitivity of estimates of post-apartheid changes in South African poverty and inequality to key data imputations” CSSR Working Paper 05/106

Case, A., Menendez, A. and Ardington, C. (2005) “Health seeking behaviour in Northern KwaZulu-Natal” CSSR Working Paper 05/116

Case, A. and Ardington, C. (2004) “The Impact of Parental Death on School Enrolment and Achievement: Longitudinal Evidence from South Africa” CSSR Working Paper 04/97

Ardington, C. and Leibbrandt, M. (2004) “Financial Services and the Informal Economy” CSSR Working Paper 04/66

Ardington, C., Leibbrandt, M., Lam, D., and J. Levinsohn (2004) “Savings, Insurance and Debt over the Post-apartheid Period: A review of Recent Research” CSSR Working Paper 04/65

Ardington, C. and Case, A. (2003) “Socio-economic events” in “Africa Centre-Population Studies Group. Socio-demographic and health events 2000.” Monograph Series No. 1. Chiweni E Chimbwete, AJ Herbst (eds), Mtubatuba, South Africa.

Ardington, C., Leibbrandt, M., Lam, D., and J. Levinsohn (2003) “Savings, Insurance and Debt over the Post-apartheid Period” Report for the Office of the Presidency

RESARCH SUPPORT

2012-2014 South Africa's Unfolding Human and Social Dynamics: Evidence from Longitudinal Data (National Research Foundation/Department of Science and Technology: Human and Social Dynamics in Development Grand Challenge)

Role: Co-Investigator

2011-2013 Social Protection and Labour Market Outcomes of the Youth in South Africa (International Development Research Centre: Supporting Inclusive Growth Program, Project No. 106670-001)

Role: Co-Investigator

2010-2015 Malnutrition and socioeconomic status of South African children (R01TW008661-01 Ardington(PI) FIC/NIH)

Role: Principal Investigator

2008-2010 Fertility, Intergenerational Transfers, and Economic Development in South Africa (Hewlett/PRB Global Teams of Research Excellence)

Role: Researcher

2005-2008 Family Support and Rapid Social Change in South Africa (R01 HD045581-01 Lam (PI) NICH)

Role: Researcher and CAPS Survey Manager

2003-2004 Risk, Vulnerability and Poverty in the Informal Economy (Andrew W. Mellon Award through the SALDRU Poverty Node)

Role: Co-investigator

REFEREE FOR

Contemporary Economic Policy, Demography, Economic Development and Cultural Change, European Journal of Development Research, Global Public Health, Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Economic Inequality, Population Studies, Population Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics of the Household, South African Journal of Economics, World Development