Urban‐Rural Literacy Gaps in Sub‐Saharan Africa: The Roles of Socioeconomic Status and School Quality

By Yanhong Zhang. Comparative Education Review, 2006

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The Agricultural Productivity Gap in Developing Countries (2011, unknown): “For example Williams (2005) and Zhang (2006) provide evidence that literacy rates and test scores in mathematics and reading are most often lower in rural schools than urban ones.”
Using the Results of a National Assessment of Educational Achievement (2009, methodology): “Examples of thematic reports that incorporate advanced statistical methods and present results in an accessible, policy-relevant way can be found in studies using data from the Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality, or SACMEQ, and the Programme d’Analyse des Systè”
Socioeconomic Status and Academic Outcomes in Developing Countries: A Meta-Analysis (2019, background): “This has been accompanied by a growing number of empirical studies seeking to assess the role of family background and school factors on educational attainment and achievement in a wide range of developing countries (i.e., Abuya et al., 2016; Aturupane, Glewwe, & Wisniewski, 2013; Edet & Ekegre, 201”