Fathers' employment and sons' stature: The long-run effects of a positive regional employment shock in South Africa's mining industry

Martine Mariotti from Australian National University and Stellenbosch University examines the long-run effects of a positive regional employment shock in South Africa's mining industry in this article. The article uses the 2008 wave of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) to determine the impact of an unexpected shock to the labor supply of the South African mining industry between 1975 and 1978 on living standards in the South African homelands. The NIDS data improve on other post-apartheid survey data by documenting where and when a person was born.