HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY IN NIGERIA

📄 Project Abstract

This study investigated human capital development and poverty in Nigeria. The analysis was base on panel data regression model using National Living Standard Survey 2008. The results obtained indicate that the apriori expectation of the variables which are sex, age in years, mother education, total expenditure on education, quintile, and school enrollment were positive to the dependent variable which is poverty proxy by total expenditure of the house hold while father education, house hold size, educational group were negative in the first model. In the second model, the apriori expectations also indicates that consultation on health, transportation, hospitalization, medication, total expenditure on health were positive while mother and farther education were negative to the dependent variable which is poverty proxy by total expenditure of the house hold. The implication for this sign for model one is that A unit increase in poverty will reduce the sex, age in years, mother education, ...