{Female Education As A Path To Family Health - Is It A Panacea? Evidence From Turkish Health Surveys

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2022-07-08

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Özen, İlhan Can
Ahsen, Aysenur

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The compulsory schooling reform introduced in 1997 had a substantial effect on the middleschool graduations of women. By taking advantage of this natural experiment, we aim at investigatingthe impacts of women education on health-related decisions and health outcomesfor themselves and their children. After confirming the validity of the reform effect, we continuedour research by using an instrumental variable approach in accordance with the fuzzyregression design. The results reveal that having at least a middle school diploma contributesto the possibility of using family planning methods and it also has a significant impact on thetiming, and frequency of antenatal care demand. We also observed alterations in healthcareinstitution preferences caused by middle school education. For instance, rather weak evidencesuggests a shift from private to public institution preference for antenatal care and delivery,and an adverse education effect on acknowledging family physician as a primary health serviceprovider is also reported. Even education effect on self health-related healthcare usagefound insignificant, results suggest a positive maternal education effect on the possibility of visiting a healthcare institution for healthy children aged between 0-6. Together with theimprovements observed in woman’s likelihood of being in a healthy BMI range, we find evidencefor that middle school education of mother also improves birth weight of female babies,reduce the probability of born with low birth weight and support higher anthropometric measuresfor children. Based on these results it is concluded that the impact of middle schooleducation can be traced into various elements that construct the woman’s decision pattern forhealth and consequently in her and her children’s health outcomes.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/98341

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İ. C. Özen and A. Ahsen, “{Female Education As A Path To Family Health - Is It A Panacea? Evidence From Turkish Health Surveys,” presented at the EUHEA- European Health Economıcs Association, Oslo, Norveç, 2022, Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://euhea.eu/session_details_conference_2022.html#id=469.