A Comparison Of The Effect Of Education On Healthier Birth In Egypt

Abstract

This study looks at whether better educated mothers in Egypt give birth to healthier children(N=69,631). We discovered that Egyptian mothers with higher levels of education have healthier children than Egyptian mothers with lower levels of education. In terms of numbers, one additional school year in Egypt is linked to a 2.8205 gram gain in Egyptian birth weight and a 0.29 percentage point reduction in the Egyptian probability of low birth weight.