Formal education, malaria preventive behaviour, and children's malarial status in Tanzania

Ninja Ritter Klejnstrup and Joel Silas Lincoln

No wp-2018-9, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: In this study, we assess formal education as a causal determinant of women's malaria preventive behaviour, as well as children's risk of malaria infection. For identification, we rely on exogenous variation in educational attainment generated by educational reforms during the 1970s. We use data from a total of four rounds of either Demographic and Health Surveys or Malaria Indicator Surveys, which allows us to explore variation in relationships over time.

Keywords: Health behaviour; Malaria; Education reform; Tanzania (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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