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    Female Labour Force Participation Rate and Uganda's Economic Growth.
    (2023) Apire, John Paul
    The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of selected female labor force participation indicators on Uganda’s economic growth. The study focused on the effect of female labor force participation rate, the level of education of females in labor force and fertility rate on Uganda’s economic growth. The study adopted a causal relationship research design and utilized time series quarterly data for the period 1990 -2021 obtained from World Bank development indicators and the Uganda Bureau of Statistics in the analysis. Estimation of the empirical model was achieved by employing the ARDL (3, 3, 1, 1, 1, 2) model. Estimates indicated that, over the period of analysis, female labor force participation rate had a significant negative causal effect on Uganda’s economic growth in the short run but did not show any causal influence in the long run, which supported the postulates of the U-shape hypothesis. Estimates further showed that female labor force with basic education had no short run and long run causal effect on Uganda’s economic growth while the female fertility rate had negative short run causal influence on Uganda’s economic growth but showed no long run causal effect. Results from this study give a precursor that policy focusing on skills acquisition of female in labor force, scaling up of birth control measures as well as enacting policies that increase physical capital stocks may be lucrative policy options to boost Uganda’s economic growth. The study contributes to existing body of literature by adopting and modifying the Solow-style neoclassical model in combination of the U-shape development hypothesis by disaggregating the labor input by gender and analyzing its contribution to growth in Uganda’s economic growth.