Maternal education and child health: Is there a strong causal relationship?
- 1 February 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Duke University Press in Demography
- Vol. 35 (1) , 71-81
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3004028
Abstract
Using data from the first round of Demographic and Health Surveys for 22 developing countries, we examine the effect of maternal education on three markers of child health: infant mortality, children...Keywords
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