- Publication ID
- WP1
- Publication Date
- December 1990
- Language
- English
- Country(s)
- Bolivia
- Document Type
- Working Papers
- Publication Topic(s)
- Education , Gender
- Author(s)
- George T. Bicego, J. Ties Boerma and Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems, Inc. Columbia, Maryland, USA s
Maternal Education, Use of Health Services, and Child Survival: An Analysis of Data from the Bolivia DHS Survey (PDF, 1237K)
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Abstract:
Studies using data from the World Fertility Survey have shown that , on average, each one-year increment in maternal education corresponds to a reduction of 7 to 9 persent in mortality for children under 5 years of age.
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