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Female Schooling and Women’s Labour Market Participation in Nigeria

In: Economic Policy Options for a Prosperous Nigeria

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  • Adebayo B. Aromolaran

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Currently there are pressures on African governments by international development organizations to pursue education policies which emphasize gender balance because contemporary economic development literature strongly associates economic growth and poverty reduction with increasing investment in female education. Schultz (2002) presents a detailed argument on why governments should invest more to educate girls. Specifically, increased female schooling is believed to be associated with decline in population growth rate due to reduced fertility rate, growth in per capita income due to increased income earning opportunities for women, increase in women empowerment due to increased control over economic resources, increase in child quality/welfare due to increased bargaining power for women in the household, and increase in available public resources for development due to increased tax base.

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  • Adebayo B. Aromolaran, 2008. "Female Schooling and Women’s Labour Market Participation in Nigeria," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Paul Collier & Chukwuma C. Soludo & Catherine Pattillo (ed.), Economic Policy Options for a Prosperous Nigeria, chapter 16, pages 397-428, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-58319-1_17
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230583191_17
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