1. Exploring the relationship between spatial inequality and
Persistent Inequality: Space, Education and the Labour Market Murray Leibbrandt
Exploring the relationship between spatial inequality and
attitudes to inequality in South Africa
Government Cluster Policy Workshop
10 September 2013

2. Returns to post-secondary schooling are very high and have increased over time.
Men with university have earnings about 3 times the earnings of men with grade 12.

3. NIDS Wave 2: Education
Most individuals have access to a school within 1km of their household
Majority of learners attend a school within a 2km radius of their household
For respondents who choose schools that are not the closest one:
They pick schools in higher quintiles
Hence less likely to be no-fee schools
And choose schools with lower pupil to teacher ratios
Respondents in richer households least likely to attend closest school
Higher income quintile learners have access to a wider number and range of schools, also travel the furthest to attend school of their choice

4. Spending on School by Quintiles

5. Residential change between waves 1 & 2
Race
Gender
Age group
0-5 (omitted)
13-17
***
***
18-25
0.0406***
0.0333***
26-59
***
>60
***
***
Log(income)
0.0118***
Constant
0.118***
0.0672***
Observations
22,013
21,991
*** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1

6. Educational and labour market transitions for movers aged 13-17 at wave 2
W2 Current Status
W1 Current Status
In school
Unemployed
Employed
Other
Total %
%/#
82.4
2.5
1.1
14.1
95.3
67.3
32.7
4.7
81.7
2.3 1 15
100

7. Post-secondary enrollment within two years of completing grade 12

8. Income, Matric performance and Access to Tertiary Education