The Impact of Maternal Education on Child Health; Evidence from Bangladesh
Journal Title: Asian Journal Social Sciences & Humanities - Year 2014, Vol 3, Issue 4
Abstract
A mother’s education is widely posited to affect positively her own and her children’s health and nutrition in developing economies. This study analyzed the mother’s year of schooling and its effect on child’s growth controlling most common factors, that affect mothers education along with others variables. By using data from HIES 2010, collected by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, this study have tried to find out the relation between maternal education and growth of child. OLS regression implies that while father’s education is positively correlated with child immunizations, mother’s education is more critically associated with longer term health outcomes. IV estimates suggested that mother’s education is highly associated with her own parental family education and within the home, mother’s education have significant positive impact on child’s height for age Z score.
Authors and Affiliations
Ripon Mondal, Monoj Majumder, Shah Rayhan
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