The Effect of Maternal Education on Child Mortality in Bangladesh
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5151992 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hanbo Wu (0000-0001-5135-1298, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 475-503 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population and Development Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/padr.12467 |
| OpenAlex | W4213213287 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 47 |
This paper examines the effect of maternal education on child mortality in Bangladesh by exploiting quasi-experimental variations in the duration of exposure to a school stipend project for identification. Results from the instrumental variable estimation indicate that an additional year of maternal schooling reduces both under-five and infant mortality by about 20 percent. The findings are statistically significant and robust to a number of model specifications, including survival models controlling for right censoring of child mortality. Analysis of potential mechanisms suggests that maternal education reduces child mortality through greater wealth and literacy, positive assortative mating, lower fertility, delayed marriage and childbearing, greater health-related knowledge, better health-seeking behaviors, and female empowerment, but not through female employment
Censoring (clinical trials · Child mortality · Econometrics · Economic growth · Economics · Empowerment · Estimation · Fertility · Infant mortality · Instrumental variable · Literacy · Political science · Population · Sociology · Stipend · Demography · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology
The relationship between healthcare professionals and under-five mortality
Survival analysis of under-five mortality and associated risk factors using survival analysis approaches
Survival probability and under-five mortality predictors in Western Kenya between 2015 and 2020
From parental education to under-5 mortality
Determinants of under-five mortality in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya from 2002 to 2018
Determinants of household well-being and mapping vulnerability in Bangladesh
Contextualizing Maternal Education and Child Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
Inequality of Opportunity in Early-childhood Deprivations in Ghana
Differential impact of maternal education on under-five mortality in rural and urban India
Maternal education and child mortality
Global Inequality of Opportunity in Education Decreased During the 20th Century
Intergenerational effects of education on child mortality
Global, regional, and national levels and trends in under-5 mortality between 1990 and 2015, with scenario-based projections to 2030
Increased educational attainment and its effect on child mortality in 175 countries between 1970 and 2009
The Impact of Education on Fertility and Child Mortality
Two-stage residual inclusion estimation
Why Does Mother's Schooling Raise Child Health in Developing Countries? Evidence from Morocco
Evidence for causal links between education and maternal and child health
Maternal education and child mortality in Zimbabwe
Women Empowerment and Economic Development
Reverse Gender Gap in Schooling in Bangladesh
United Nations Millennium Declaration
The Effect of Female Education on Fertility and Infant Health
Does Increasing Women's Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation
Risk factors of neonatal mortality and child mortality in Bangladesh
The importance of intersectoral factors in promoting equity-oriented universal health coverage
Fine and Gray competing risk regression model to study the cause-specific under-five child mortality in Bangladesh
Socioeconomic inequalities in under-five mortality in rural Bangladesh
How and why studies disagree about the effects of education on health
Social determinants of under-five mortality in urban Bangladesh
The effect of female education on marital matches and child health in Bangladesh
Does a Food for Education Program Affect School Outcomes? The Bangladesh Case
Enrolment at primary level
Do crowded classrooms crowd out learning? Evidence from the food for education program in Bangladesh
Women’s Education
Women's schooling, fertility, and child health outcomes
Maternal education and child health
The Causal Effect of Maternal Education on Child Mortality
Do Targeted Stipend Programs Reduce Gender and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Schooling Attainment? Insights From Rural Bangladesh
Maternal Reading Skills and Child Mortality in Nigeria
Education Policy and Under-Five Survival in Uganda
Five Decades of Educational Assortative Mating
The causal effect of increased primary schooling on child mortality in Malawi
Maternal education and child survival
Maternal education and child survival in developing countries
Education, Marriage, and Fertility
Demographic Determinants of Infant and Early Child Mortality
Education as a Factor in Mortality Decline An Examination of Nigerian Data
Effects of Family Composition on Mortality Differentials by Sex Among Children in Matlab, Bangladesh
Routes to Low Mortality in Poor Countries
An Analytical Framework for the Study of Child Survival in Developing Countries
Maternal education and child nutritional status in Bolivia
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |