Length of maternal schooling and children's risk of malaria infection: evidence from a natural experiment in Uganda.

BMJ Global Health
Kazuya Masuda

Abstract

An estimated 216 million cases of malaria occurred worldwide every year. Cross-sectional studies have reported negative association between maternal education and child malaria risks; however, no randomised trial or quasi-experimental study using a natural experiment has confirmed a causal relationship between these two factors. I used the free primary education reform in Uganda to assess the causal effects of maternal schooling on children's risk of malaria infection. Malaria biomarkers of children aged <5 years were collected from the 2009 and 2014 Uganda Malaria Indicator Surveys (n=5316). In 1997, the government eliminated tuition requirements in primary schools, which increased the educational attainment of the affected cohorts. Using exposure to the reform as an instrumental variable, I used a two-stage least squares approach to estimate the causal effects of maternal year of education on the probability that a child would contract malaria at the time of the survey. I also evaluated the cost-effectiveness of primary schooling as a malaria control intervention. One extra year of maternal education reduced children's risk of malaria infection by 7.5 percentage points (p=0.057) from baseline (34.9%). The length of maternal e...Continue Reading

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