Impact of Female Education on Poverty Reduction: An Evidence From Pakistan

The objective of this research paper is to measure the impact of female education on poverty in Pakistan. Female are half of the population and their education is necessary to enhance their role in national development. In order to measure the impact of female education on poverty we collected data from World Development indicators and Pakistan Economic Survey for the period from 1996 to 2016. Our dependent variable is poverty while population, female literacy rate, household income and GDP are independent variables. We used ARDL approach to analyze data and draw results. We found that there is negative relation between female education and poverty, which means increase in female education will decrease level of poverty.