Maternal education and child mortality: Evidence from developing countries

Kien Le and My Nguyen

International Journal of Educational Development, 2024, vol. 110, issue C

Abstract: This paper evaluates how maternal education affects child mortality in the context of 52 low- and middle-income countries. The sister fixed-effects model is employed, where we compare the child mortality outcome between biological sisters who attain different numbers of educational years. We find that an additional year of maternal education is linked with a 0.4 percentage point decrease in the likelihood of child mortality (a 4.3 % reduction relative to the sample mean). Additionally, the mechanism analysis reveals that improved women’s labor market outcome, increased access to information, assortative matching, and health input allocation are possible pathways to the link between maternal education and child mortality.

Keywords: Maternal education; Child mortality; Developing countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I26 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103135

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