A Cross-Section Assessment of Mother's Health and Child Health

Type Working Paper
Title A Cross-Section Assessment of Mother's Health and Child Health
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Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2014
URL http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2436549
Abstract
The general objective of this study was acknowledged of main points in mother’s Health and child health in developing country like Bangladesh. This paper examines the effects of socio-economic and demographic variables impact on mother health and child health (less than five years) in Bangladesh. It is found that the mother’s education is an important determinant of the health of those kinds of children even after we control for income, the number of children, health environments, access to safe water, access to hygienic toilet and other socioeconomic variables. The empirical results are suggestive that the mother’s education has a nurturing effect. The educated mother’s make a greater investment of emotion and time in their children than the uneducated mother’s. Mother’s education effects the health of mother because they attach a higher value to the welfare and health of her. They have greater decision making power on health related and other matters.

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