Abstract
Aims: This article measures educational inequalities between Northern and Southern regions of Nigeria and compare it with the educational distribution within regions.Study Design: A cross sectional study.Place and Duration of Study: Nigeria, 2012.Methodology: Theil Index and Decomposition Analysis.Results: Educational inequality is higher in the North than in the South as 17 out of 19 states of northern Nigeria have higher Theil index than the national Theil index. However, educational attainment and inequality are found to have a negative relationship.Conclusion: Within regions inequality rather than between regions is the main source of education inequality in Nigeria. There is a negative relationship between educational attainment and inequality. It implies that states with higher educational attainment are more likely to achieve more equitable distributions of education.
Highlights
The importance of education in both individual wellbeing and national economic life has been well recognised in the economic literature both old and new
We proceed for the two main regions- Northern Region and Southern Region - which are, mainly, the focus of this study
We estimated the extent of education inequality in Nigeria
Summary
The importance of education in both individual wellbeing and national economic life has been well recognised in the economic literature both old and new. A measure of the education dispersion within a country appears very useful both for analytical purpose and for necessary policy actions This is our major motivation on this paper. It has been found that income inequality in Nigeria is very high- with a Gini coefficient that ranges between .46 to .60, despite the expansion of the economy in terms of government revenue and GDP growth [13]. Based on this backdrop, our aim in this paper is to measure the educational attainment and its distribution within and between regions in Nigeria.
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