Staying Alive: Adult Literacy Programs and Child Mortality in Rural Ghana

Niels-Hugo (Hugo) Blunch

World Development, 2013, vol. 42, issue C, 114-126

Abstract: This paper estimates the causal effect of maternal participation in adult literacy programs on child mortality in rural Ghana, taking into account the possible endogeneity of program participation and endogenous program placement. Adult literacy program participation has a substantial impact on child mortality and is also cost-effective in reducing child mortality. The combined results of this paper point toward the potentially important role of adult literacy programs in promoting child health in Ghana through the acquisition of health knowledge by participants—in stark contrast with the decreased attention toward such programs in the developing world in recent years.

Keywords: child mortality; adult literacy programs; health knowledge; cost–benefit analysis; Africa; Ghana (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.06.021

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