Socio-economic status of women and fertility outcome in Benue State, North-Central, Nigeria

Atama, Chiemezie S.; Ebimgbo, Samuel O.; Uzoma, C. C.; Iwuagwu, Tochi Emmanuel; Asadu, Ngozi

doi:10.1080/07399332.2021.1929990

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“…Although the magnitude of the relationship is small, it however has statistical significance in both countries. The reducing effect of income on women decision to give birth is corroborated in the findings of Atama et al (2021) which argue that as the economy develops women tend to move to the secondary sector with lesser compatibility with child rearing. The long-run coefficients for infant mortality in both models reveal that infant mortality contributes to increasing fertility in both countries.…”

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A Comparative Assessment of the Urbanization – Fertility Nexus in Most Urbanized Countries of Sub-Saharan Africa

Jemiluyi

Jeke

2023

Zagreb International Review of Economics and Business

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There is a near-consensus in the literature that urbanization is incompatible with large family size owing to factors such as high cost of urban living, opportunity cost of having children in urban centers and increasing awareness of benefits of small family size. However, a cursory glance at the data on sub-Saharan Africa cast doubt on the incompatibility of urbanization with high fertility rate. Hence, this paper investigates the urbanization-fertility nexus in the two most urbanized countries of SSA – Nigeria and South Africa. Exploiting time series data for both countries within a Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square (FMOLS) framework, the incompatibility hypothesis is refuted in both countries. Specifically, the analysis suggests that in Nigeria and South Africa, increasing degree of urbanization is positively related with fertility rate with the magnitude of the relationship being higher in Nigeria than South Africa. These findings imply that policies aimed at improving urbanization process and reducing fertility rates are crucial in both countries.

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Section: Fully Modified Ols (Fmols) Estimation and Discussion Of Resultsmentioning

confidence: 85%

A Comparative Assessment of the Urbanization – Fertility Nexus in Most Urbanized Countries of Sub-Saharan Africa

Jemiluyi

Jeke

2023

Zagreb International Review of Economics and Business

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Socio-economic status of women and fertility outcome in Benue State, North-Central, Nigeria

Cited by 1 publication

References 33 publications

A Comparative Assessment of the Urbanization – Fertility Nexus in Most Urbanized Countries of Sub-Saharan Africa

A Comparative Assessment of the Urbanization – Fertility Nexus in Most Urbanized Countries of Sub-Saharan Africa

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