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Article: Maternal education and child mortality in Zimbabwe
Title | Maternal education and child mortality in Zimbabwe |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Maternal education Child mortality Returns to education Natural experiment Fertility |
Issue Date | 2015 |
Citation | Journal of Health Economics, 2015, v. 44, p. 97-117 How to Cite? |
Abstract | © 2015 Elsevier B.V.. In 1980, Zimbabwe rapidly expanded access to secondary schools, providing a natural experiment to estimate the impact of increased maternal secondary education on child mortality. Exploiting age specific exposure to these reforms, we find that children born to mothers most likely to have benefited from the policies were about 21% less likely to die than children born to slightly older mothers. We also find that increased education leads to delayed age at marriage, sexual debut, and first birth and that increased education leads to better economic opportunities for women. We find little evidence supporting other channels through which increased education might affect child mortality. Expanding access to secondary schools may greatly accelerate declines in child mortality in the developing world today. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/280569 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 3.4 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 2.444 |
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dc.contributor.author | Grépin, Karen A. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Bharadwaj, Prashant | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-02-17T14:34:22Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-02-17T14:34:22Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Health Economics, 2015, v. 44, p. 97-117 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0167-6296 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/280569 | - |
dc.description.abstract | © 2015 Elsevier B.V.. In 1980, Zimbabwe rapidly expanded access to secondary schools, providing a natural experiment to estimate the impact of increased maternal secondary education on child mortality. Exploiting age specific exposure to these reforms, we find that children born to mothers most likely to have benefited from the policies were about 21% less likely to die than children born to slightly older mothers. We also find that increased education leads to delayed age at marriage, sexual debut, and first birth and that increased education leads to better economic opportunities for women. We find little evidence supporting other channels through which increased education might affect child mortality. Expanding access to secondary schools may greatly accelerate declines in child mortality in the developing world today. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Health Economics | - |
dc.subject | Maternal education | - |
dc.subject | Child mortality | - |
dc.subject | Returns to education | - |
dc.subject | Natural experiment | - |
dc.subject | Fertility | - |
dc.title | Maternal education and child mortality in Zimbabwe | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2015.08.003 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 26569469 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84946738012 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 44 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 97 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 117 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1879-1646 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000367408200008 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0167-6296 | - |