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| Title: | Social capital and human capital in the colonies: a study of cocoa farmers in Western Nigeria |
| Author: | Obikili, Nonso |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Periodical: | Economic history of developing regions (ISSN 2078-0397) |
| Volume: | 30 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 1-22 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Nigeria |
| Subjects: | household expenditure farmers cocoa economic history |
| External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2015.1012712 |
| Abstract: | The author examines the relationship between social and human capital in colonial Western Nigeria. Using data on expenditure of cocoa farmers in 1952, he shows that farmers in towns with higher social spending individually spend more on education. The relationship holds after controlling for various characteristics of the farmers and the towns. Thus the author highlights the importance of social capital in generating human capital. He also shows that this relationship is not limited to contemporary African development but was already present during the colonial era. Bibliogr., note, sum. [Journal abstract] |
