Religion and educational mobility in Africa.

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 settings⁵. 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 comprehensive religion-specific measures of intergenerational mobility in education using census data from 2,286 districts in 21 countries and document the following. First, Christians have better mobility outcomes than Traditionalists and Muslims. Second, differences in intergenerational mobility between Christians and Muslims pers

SUBMITTER: Alesina A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10232358 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature