The causal effect of increased primary schooling on child mortality in Malawi: Universal primary education as a natural experiment

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The causal effect of increased primary schooling on child mortality in Malawi: Universal primary education as a natural experiment

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd The primary objective of this analysis is to investigate the causal effect of mother's schooling on under-five health - and the passageways through which schooling propagates - by exploiting the exogenous variability in schooling prompted by the 1994 universal primary school...

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Main Authors:	Makate, Marshall, Makate, C.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Pergamon Press 2016
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/65683

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