Child health and mortality in Guinea-Bissau: does health knowledge matter?
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Child health and mortality in Guinea-Bissau : does health knowledge matter? / Kovsted, Jens Anders; Pörtner, Claus Christian; Tarp, Finn.
I: Journal of African Economies, Bind 11, Nr. 4, 2002, s. 542-560.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Child health and mortality in Guinea-Bissau
T2 - does health knowledge matter?
AU - Kovsted, Jens Anders
AU - Pörtner, Claus Christian
AU - Tarp, Finn
N1 - JEL Classification: I1, J13, O12
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - This paper studies factors that influence child health in Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau. This environment is characterised by high infant mortality, but not by malnutrition. We show that although maternal education is important in determining child health and mortality this effect diminishes or disappears when health knowledge is introduced as an explanatory variable. It emerges that health knowledge has large and positive effects on both child mortality and health when instrumented for to capture endogeneity
AB - This paper studies factors that influence child health in Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau. This environment is characterised by high infant mortality, but not by malnutrition. We show that although maternal education is important in determining child health and mortality this effect diminishes or disappears when health knowledge is introduced as an explanatory variable. It emerges that health knowledge has large and positive effects on both child mortality and health when instrumented for to capture endogeneity
U2 - 10.1093/jae/11.4.542
DO - 10.1093/jae/11.4.542
M3 - Journal article
VL - 11
SP - 542
EP - 560
JO - Journal of African Economies
JF - Journal of African Economies
SN - 0963-8024
IS - 4
ER -
ID: 129725