Religious affiliation, education, and fertility in sub-Saharan Africa

• DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106723
• Publication Date: 2024-08-07T13:01:58Z
• Authors: Hoël Berger; Aurélien Dasré
• Keywords: Secularization; Religious Education

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is a weakly secularized region, where religions play an important place in the lives of individuals and communities. In many countries, religious currents are involved structuring educational offer, while increase women's level education considered as major driver fertility decline. this article, we raise question if how far association between female depends on religion. We test interaction by using Demographic Health surveys (earliest most recent available) for corpus 23 African countries. find that does not differ groups vast majority implying globally, religion weaken negative gradient region. Our results strongly suggest takes emancipatory function modifying reproductive norms women, independent their background.