Maternal Education and its Impact on Child Health Outcomes
| Author: | Bc. Miriama Tóthová |
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| Year: | 2016 - summer |
| Leaders: | doc. PhDr. Julie Chytilová Ph.D. |
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| Work type: | Bachelors |
| Language: | English |
| Pages: | 80 |
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| Link: | https://is.cuni.cz/webapps/zzp/detail/151488/ |
| Abstract: | The aim of the presented thesis is to examine the relationship between maternal educational attainment and child health outcomes. The study attempts to distinguish between child’s nutritional status and mother’s health-seeking behaviour which is measured by child’s immunization status. Hypotheses are tested using a probit regression model based on the Demographic and Health Surveys data from two Sub-Saharan countries, namely Ethiopia and Kenya. The empirical results suggest that there is a strong significant relationship between maternal education and child’s chronic malnutrition, while the maternal education effect attenuates after inclusion of possible channels in the regressions explaining child’s acute malnutrition and child’s immunization status. The education effect on the probability of having diarrhea has shown to be insignificant. Furthermore, the effect does not differ either by the sex of the child nor by the place of residence. Lastly, we observe that secondary education represents the most important influence on the child health quality |
