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Title: | Does mother's education matter in child's health? Evidence from South Africa |
Authors: | Medrano, Patricia Rodríguez, Catherine Villa, Edgar |
Year: | 2008 |
Periodical: | South African Journal of Economics |
Volume: | 76 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 612-627 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | child health women's education |
External link: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1813-6982.2008.00210.x/pdf |
Abstract: | Using the 1993 South Africa Integrated Household Survey, the authors study the effect that mother's education through the knowledge channel has on children's health using height for age Z-scores as health measure. Under a two-stage least square methodology they find that an increase in 4 years on mother's education (approximately 1 standard deviation) will lead to an increase of 0.6 standard deviations on her child's height for age Z-score. They also find, as the medical literature suggests, support for the hypothesis that mother's education is more important for children older than 24 months of age. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |