Compulsory education reform and child mortality in Peru

Abstract

Parental education plays an important role in shaping children's educational and health outcomes (Currie, 2009). It has been widely established in the literature that more educated parents tend to have better educated children (Black et al., 2005;Oreopoulos et al., 2006;Plug, 2004). However, the intergenerational effect of parental education, especially maternal education, on child health remains a matter of debate in the empirical research. A growing number of studies exploit various sources of exogenous variation in education to investigate the impact of maternal education on child health. While some studies find that mother's schooling improves child health (