Child Health and Mortality: Does Health Knowledge Matter?

Child Health and Mortality: Does Health Knowledge Matter?

Author: 
Kovsted, Jens
Place: 
Oxford
Publisher: 
Oxford University Press
Date published: 
2002
Record type: 
Responsibility: 
Portner, Claus C., jt. author
Tarp, Finn, jt. author
Journal Title: 
Journal of African Economies
Source: 
Journal of African Economies Volume 11 Issue 4 Dec 2002 pp. 542-560
Abstract: 

This paper studies factors that influence child health in Bissau, the capital of Guinea?Bissau. This environment is characterised by high infant mortality, but not by malnutrition. We show that although maternal education is important in determining child health and mortality this effect diminishes or disappears when health knowledge is introduced as an explanatory variable. It emerges that health knowledge has large and positive effects on both child mortality and health when instrumented for to capture endogeneity.

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CITATION: Kovsted, Jens. Child Health and Mortality: Does Health Knowledge Matter? . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2002. Journal of African Economies Volume 11 Issue 4 Dec 2002 pp. 542-560 - Available at: https://library.au.int/frchild-health-and-mortality-does-health-knowledge-matter