Parental Education and Child Health – Understanding the Pathways of Impact in Pakistan

By Monazza Aslam and Geeta Kingdon This study investigates the relationship between parental schooling on the one hand, and child health outcomes  (height and weight) and parental health-seeking behaviour (immunisation status of children), on the other. While establishing a correlational link between parental schooling and child health is relatively straightforward, confirming a causal relationship is [...]

Education’s role in health and fertility change in Pakistan

Feyza Bhatti, MHHDC, Pakistan One of the main outcomes of female schooling is supposed to be dramatic improvements in reproductive indicators, such as women’s access to health and family planning services, maternal morbidity and mortality, and indicators of infant and child health. Pakistan is a country where such beneficial outcomes are sorely needed: gross enrolment [...]

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