Maternal education and child mortality in Zimbabwe
Maternal education and child mortality in Zimbabwe
复制标题
DOI：
10.1016/j.jhealeco.2015.08.003
复制
发表时间：
2015-12-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Bharadwaj, Prashant
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Grepin, Karen A.;Bharadwaj, Prashant
1980年，津巴布韦迅速扩大了接受中学教育的机会，提供了一个自然实验，以评估增加母亲中学教育对儿童死亡率的影响。利用这些改革的特定年龄暴露，我们发现，最有可能从这些政策中受益的母亲所生的孩子比稍年长的母亲所生的孩子死亡的可能性低21%。我们还发现，教育程度的提高会导致结婚年龄、初次性行为和第一次生育年龄的推迟，教育程度的提高会为妇女带来更好的经济机会。我们发现几乎没有证据支持增加教育可能影响儿童死亡率的其他渠道。在当今发展中世界，扩大中学入学机会可能会大大加快儿童死亡率的下降。(C)2015 Elsevier B.V.版权所有。
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. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.