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Stalls in Africa’s fertility decline partly result from disruptions in female education
Endale Kebede, Anne Goujon, and Wolfgang Lutz
PNAS February 19, 2019 116 (8) 2891-2896; first published February 4, 2019; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1717288116
Endale Kebede
aWittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/OeAW, WU), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 2361 Laxenburg, Austria
Anne Goujon
aWittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/OeAW, WU), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 2361 Laxenburg, Austria
Wolfgang Lutz
aWittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/OeAW, WU), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 2361 Laxenburg, Austria
Contributed by Wolfgang Lutz, October 18, 2018 (sent for review October 3, 2017; reviewed by John Casterline and Alex C. Ezeh)

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- ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: lutz{at}iiasa.ac.at.
Author contributions: E.K., A.G., and W.L. designed research, performed research, contributed new reagents/analytic tools, analyzed data, and wrote the paper.
Reviewers: J.C., Ohio State University; and A.C.E., Center for Global Development.
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Stalls in Africa’s fertility decline partly result from disruptions in female education
Endale Kebede, Anne Goujon, Wolfgang Lutz
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Feb 2019, 116 (8) 2891-2896; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1717288116
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