Religion and educational mobility in Africa | Nature

Religion-specific measures of intergenerational mobility in education using census data for 21 African countries indicate that Christians have fared considerably better than their Muslim or Animist peers even when comparing individuals residing in the same district born to households with similar characteristics.

Download PDF Subjects Economics Society An Author Correction to this article was published on 12 December 2023 This article has been updated Abstract The African people and leaders 1 , 2 have long seen education as a driving force of development and liberation, a view shared by international institutions 3 , 4 , as schooling has large economic and non-economic returns, particularly in low-income settings 5 . In this study, we examine the educational progress across faiths throughout postcolonial Africa, home to some of the world’s largest Christian and Muslim communities. We construct comprehe

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