Historical Origins of Uneven Service Supply in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Role of Non-State Providers
研究利用马达加斯加的历史数据，发现19世纪传教士教育与当代私立学校供给之间存在长期关联，揭示了非国家教育提供在地区层面的持续性及其对宗教差异的影响。
Variations in non-state service provision are a relatively understudied dimension of wellbeing inequality in sub-Saharan Africa. This study from Madagascar documents long-term associations between nineteenth-century missionary education and the availability of private schools today. The article exploits an original data set with unusually detailed information on missionary education and contemporary local private school supply. The results indicate high levels of persistence in non-state schooling at the geographic level. The long tradition of faith-based education appears to contribute to religious differences that overlap only imperfectly with more widely studied ethnic divides.