 What matters more for child health: A father’s education or mother’s education?Apsara Karki Nepal World Development Perspectives, 2018, vol. 10-12, 24-33 Abstract: This research examines the relationship between parental education and child health outcomes using the Nepal Living Standards Survey 2010/11. Controlling for a range of observable characteristics, we find that a mother’s education has a positive and significant effect on child health outcomes. A higher level of a mother’s education has a larger direct effect on child health outcomes but mother’s education below 8th grade has no direct effect on child health regardless of the child's gender and the household’s location once we control for potential pathways and district fixed effects. However, surprisingly, no statistically significant relationship subsists between a father’s education and child health outcomes. In order to determine the exact gap between the health outcomes of children of mothers with higher versus lower education and the factors contributing to those gaps, we use the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method. This analysis shows that a healthy environment, access to information, and the demographic and economic characteristics of households are the major factors that explain most of the child health outcome gaps. Keywords: Child health; Nepal; Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition; Parents’ education; Stunting; Wasting (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:wodepe:v:10-12:y:2018:i::p:24-33 DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2018.09.002 Access Statistics for this article World Development Perspectives is currently edited by Ashwini Chhatre More articles in World Development Perspectives from Elsevier |
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