The Centre for Social Sciences Research (CSSR) and the  Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa  (IDCPPA) at the University of Cape Town invite you to join us for a lunchtime seminar on 10 March 2026 at 12:45pm. The seminar will be presented by Dr. Robin Richardson.

About the Seminar:

Disentangling links between South Africa's child support grant, women's decision-making power, and children's

The presentation will discuss works-in-progress related to evaluating the impact of South Africa's child support grant on women's household decision-making power. This work utilizes longitudinal information from the National Income Dynamics Survey, a large population-based survey conducted throughout South Africa, and applies advanced epidemiologic methods such as mediation analyses and inverse probability of treatment weighting to disentangle relationships. The presentation will also share work exploring downstream impacts on children's educational and health outcomes. Additional future directions will be discussed.

Speakers

Dr. Robin Richardson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

Dr. Richardson's work examines the social, contextual, and structural causes of poor mental health, intimate partner violence, and low empowerment. Her work is conducted in low-resource settings, including Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as among people experiencing social and economic disadvantage in high- resource settings. The over-arching focus of her research is to inform the design of programs and policies through the generation of high-quality evidence on the underlying causes of these health conditions.

  10 March 2026
  12:45 - 14:00 SAST
   CSSR Seminar Room, 4.29 Robert Leslie Social Science Building, UCT

Hosted by the Centre for Social Science Research and the Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa