Mapping local variation in educational attainment across Africa

Mapping local variation in educational attainment across Africa Nature 555, 7694 (2018). doi:10.1038/nature25761 Authors: Nicholas Graetz, Joseph Friedman, Aaron Osgood-Zimmerman, Roy Burstein, Molly H. Biehl, Chloe Shields, Jonathan F. Mosser, Daniel C. Casey, Aniruddha Deshpande, Lucas Earl, Robert C. Reiner, Sarah E. Ray, Nancy Fullman, Aubrey J. Levine, Rebecca W. Stubbs, Benjamin K. Mayala, Joshua Longbottom, Annie J. Browne, Samir Bhatt, Daniel J. Weiss, Peter W. Gething, Ali H. Mokdad, Stephen S. Lim, Christopher J. L. Murray, Emmanuela Gakidou & Simon I. Hay Educational attainment for women of reproductive age is linked to reduced child and maternal mortality, lower fertility and improved reproductive health. Comparable analyses of attainment exist only at the national level, potentially obscuring patterns in subnational inequality. Evidence suggests that wide disparities between urban and
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