Is There Any Threshold in the Relationship between Mother's Education and Child Health? Evidence from Nigeria

This paper explores the relationship between extending maternity leave and child health. To quantify the relationship of interest, we exploit the expansion of maternity leave in Zimbabwe Labour Amendment Act of 2005 that went into effect in December 2005. We find statistical evidence on the positive association between extending maternity leave and child health. Quantitatively, those exposed to the maternity leave extension grow 0.522 standard dеviations taller for their age, weigh 0.959 standard dеviations more for their age, and weigh 0.580 standard dеviations more for their height. The findings emphasize the significance of increasing maternity leave in enhancing child health.

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Globalization, Democracy and Child Health: Asia vs. Latin America

Forman Journal of Economic Studies ◽

10.32368/fjes.20211707 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (01) ◽

Author(s):

Hijab Agha ◽

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Child Health ◽

Child Mortality ◽

Important Indicator ◽

Under Five ◽

Child Health Outcomes ◽

Time Period ◽

Political Globalization ◽

The Relationship ◽

And Child Health

Child mortality in an important indicator of shortcomings in health provisions to the most vulnerable segments of the society i.e., children under five. In this highly connected world, the trends in child mortality need exploration within the context of institutional change and global connectivity. This study explores the effect of globalization on child health in Asia and Latin America. These two regions over the last three decades have undergone waves of liberalization as well as an inconsistent drive towards democratization with very different outcomes in terms of child mortality, making for apt comparison in the context of this study. The study also examines how the level of democracy changes the relationship between globalization and child health in the two regions for the time-period 1970 to 2016 using System GMM estimation technique. The results indicate that economic globalization improves child health in Asia while social and political globalization show different results for infant and child mortality. In Latin America political globalization was found to be most effective in reducing infant mortality, while all dimensions of globalization were found to be either insignificant or increasing under-five mortality. That said, the interactions between dimensions of globalization and democracy were found to be consistently significant and mortality reducing. This result signifies the existence of complementarity between democracy and globalization in improving child health outcomes.

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Urbanization and Child Health Outcomes in Nigeria

Journal of Population and Social Studies ◽

10.25133/jpssv292021.036 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 29 ◽

pp. 586-603

Author(s):

Olufunmilayo Olayemi Jemiluyi ◽

Keyword(s):

Child Health ◽

Health Outcomes ◽

Secondary Data ◽

Health Indicators ◽

Ordinary Least Squares ◽

Urbanization Process ◽

Child Health Outcomes ◽

Long Run ◽

The Relationship ◽

And Child Health

Against the rising trend of urbanization in Nigeria and the accompanying dramatic changes in the urbanization process, this study explores the health advantage of urbanization in Nigeria. The study specifically examines the relationship between various child health outcomes. Secondary data on neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortalities were used to measure child health outcomes. By obtaining cointegration among the collected data, the study investigates the long-run relationships between the degree of urbanization and the various child health outcomes using the Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares(FM-OLS) estimator. The results suggest the existence of positive relationships between urbanization and child health indicators. In particular, the results show that there exist child health advantages of urbanization, with urbanization having reducing impacts on the mortality indicators. Also, public health expenditure, literacy rate, and health aids are negatively correlated with measures of children mortality. In all the estimated models, the economic growth proxy by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has an insignificant effect on all the measures of child health outcomes. The result implies the need to pay attention to the urbanization process for an effective health plan.

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