Mother’s Education and Children’s Nutritional Status: New Evidence from Cambodia. Asian Development Review, Vol. 26(1), pp. 131-165
Miller, Jane E.; Rodgers, Yana V. | March 2009
Abstract
This study uses data from Cambodia’s 2005 Demographic and Health Survey
to examine how three measures of children’s nutritional status vary by
mother’s educational attainment. To identify mechanisms for that association,
the study analyzes birth size, which depends on factors during gestation, and
low height-for-age (stunting) and low weight-for-height (wasting), which are
affected by factors that operate after birth. In multivariate specifications that
control for socioeconomic status, mother’s education is strongly inversely
associated with stunting, but not small birth size or wasting. Addition of
household composition and environmental factors to the model reduces the
association between mother’s education and child nutritional outcomes only
slightly.
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Miller, Jane E.; Rodgers, Yana V.. 2009. Mother’s Education and Children’s Nutritional Status: New Evidence from Cambodia. Asian Development Review, Vol. 26(1), pp. 131-165. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/1682. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Citable URI
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