Reproductive Behavior among Nigerian Women

From a paper by Annamaria Milazzo: 

The findings indicate that women make fertility decisions that are motivated by the desire for giving birth to sons in Nigeria. Compared to women with a first-born son, women with a first-born daughter have and desire significantly more children, and use less contraceptives. Women with daughters among earlier-born children are also more likely to reduce the spacing between births, thereby increasing the risk of child and maternal mortality. Results suggest that son preference also has significant impacts on other aspects of women’s well-being. Women with first-born daughters are significantly more likely to end up in a polygynous union, to be divorced, and to be heads of the household. p. 34.

HT: Viviana Di Giovinazzo

How to Improve the Nigerian Economy

Directly distributing the oil revenues to the public. 

According a paper by Sala-i-Martin & Subramanian (2013). 

Stock market and economic growth (Ghana & Nigeria)

. . . [T]he nature of stock markets and the economies in Africa revealed the reasons for non-causal relationships between stock markets and economic growth in Ghana and Nigeria. The problem of African stock markets is the domination by a single sector, and the often monoproduct economy. Often, the stocks of this sector that account for the greater percent of the GDP are not listed in the domestic stock market, hence, a divorce between the actual performance of the stock market and economic growth. In Ghana, only AngloGold Ashanti, accounts for 70% of market capitalization (Osaze, 2007) while in Nigeria, over 60% of the total market capitalization is accounted for by the Banking sector. The oil and gas sector of the economy of Nigeria and the agricultural sector (cocoa) of that of Ghana are not in their stock markets.

From a paper by Osamwonyi & Kasimu, "Stock Market and Economic Growth in Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria" (International Journal of Financial Research, April 2013).