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Secondary Education and its Effects on Child Health: Empirical Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
African Journal of Economic Review
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Secondary Education and its Effects on Child Health: Empirical Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
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Byaro, Mwoya
Mpeta, Daniel |
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Education; child health; sub-Saharan Africa
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| Description |
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) experience higher under-five mortality compared to other regions. This study examines the effect of lagged parent’s secondary education on child health outcome in sub-Saharan Africa countries. It applies the System GMM (Generalized Method of Moments) estimator for 17 years period from 2000 to 2016 using a panel data of 33 selected countries. The findings show strong evidence that lagged parent’s secondary education; income (GDP per capita) and measles immunization have significant effects on improvements of child health in sub-Saharan Africa. Increasing an access to secondary education in the region has achieved better child health status over the period 2000-2016. Lagged parent’s education skills acquired in leaving secondary school are the most important channels that affect child health. The findings suggest expanding and strengthening secondary education in sub-Saharan Africa to meet a Sustainable Development Goal target (SDG) in reducing under-five mortality by the year 2030.
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Centre for Economics and Community Economic Development
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2021-04-14
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajer/article/view/205922
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African Journal of Economic Review; Vol. 9 No. 2 (2021); 116-128
2453-5966 1821-8148 |
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eng
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https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajer/article/view/205922/194169
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