Female Education

Literature review
The importance of female education and empowerment for child survival in developing countries has been widely acknowledged (Masuy-Stroobant 2001; Caldwell 1979).
Mosley and Chen (1984) have been among the first scholars highlighting the importance of the mother’s role, by arguing that women’s education does has positive effects on the probability of survival of the children, because of its ability to increase their capabilities concerning nutrition, hygiene and treatment of illnesses.
Moreover, several other researchers have been highlighting that educated mothers are more likely to bring their children to healthcare facilities, that education can be seen as a starting point for the acquisition of capabilities and human capital

The study would be based on a repeated cross-section approach, based on the pooling of the data contained in the birth history of all the ever-married women having experienced the birth of a child in the five years preceding the survey.
Focus of the analysis would be every ever-married woman having had a live birth in the five years preceding the survey, and every child born in the same time period. The outcome variable would be the survival status of each child in the first 59 months of his or her life.
The methodology I intend to apply would consist in a multivariate analysis, based on the calculation of adjusted odds ratios to assess the impact of potential confounders in the relationship between female education, empowerment and child mortality, for every measure of empowerment chosen.
Among the alternative measures of empowerment that will be analysed, a focus will be put on a measure obtained through the use of Latent Class Analysis, in the form of the one suggested by Mizoguchi (2015), since it’s a measure that, to our knowledge, has not yet been applied in in the research concerning the relationship between female empowerment and child