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