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ERIC ED292726: Female Labor Force Participation and Fertility in Nigeria.

The two major objectives of this study are: (1) to identify the crucial factors affecting fertility behavior among working and non-working women in Nigeria; and (2) to examine the extent to which the "role incompatibility" and "opportunity cost" hypotheses of fertility behavior are supported by empirical facts in Nigeria. Two major orientations have guided studies in fertility behavior among working women. One is sociological, the other economic. The sociological hypothesis maintains that the more incompatible the role of mother and worker are, the more negative the relationship between employ…