Maternal education and child health: Is there a strong causal relationship?

Demography

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 71-81

  Desai, Sonalde ^a   Alva, Soumya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD WELFARE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GROWTH; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MOTHER; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GROWTH; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MOTHERS;

EID: 0031992124     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3004028     Document Type: Article

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