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Fenske, James and Zurimendi, Igor (2017) Oil and ethnic inequality in Nigeria. Journal of Economic Growth, 22 (4). pp. 397-420. doi:10.1007/s10887-017-9149-8 ISSN 1381-4338.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10887-017-9149-8
Abstract
Although it is known that ethnic biases exist in Africa, less is known about how these respond to natural resource prices. Many ethnically fragmented African countries depend on a small number commodities for their export base. Oil prices experienced in early life predict differential adult outcomes across Nigerian ethnic groups. Our difference-in-difference approach compares members of southern ethnicities to other Nigerians from the same birth cohort. This North-South distinction mirrors several economic, political, and religious cleavages in the country. Greater prices in a southern individual’s birth year predict several relative outcomes, including reduced fertility, delayed marriage, higher probabilities of working and having a skilled occupation, greater schooling, lower height, and greater BMI. These microeconomic impacts are explained by macroeconomic responses to oil prices; relatively, urban incomes increase, food production declines, and maternal labor intensifies in the South.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Petroleum -- Prices -- Nigeria, Nigeria -- Economic conditions -- 20th century, Nigeria -- Social conditions -- 20th century | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Economic Growth | ||||||||
Publisher: | Springer | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1381-4338 | ||||||||
Official Date: | December 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 22 | ||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 397-420 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s10887-017-9149-8 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 November 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 November 2017 |
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