MATERNAL EDUCATION AND CHILD SURVIVAL IN ADDIS ABABA

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Maternal education is found to be positively associated with child survival and its impact was generally more critical in the step from primary to secondary schooling than from the illiterate to literate group. Although once income/wealth is controlled, differences in maternal education resulted relatively little variation on child survival. The result also demonstrated that given the level of maternal education its proportionate effect on child survival improved as one ascends from the lowest to the highest income/wealth category. The findings have important implications for policy and further research.