Published May, 2016
By Robert A. Levine, Sarah LeVine, Emily Dexter, Beatrice Schnell-Anzola and Meredith L. Rowe
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP USA)
Series: Child Development in Cultural Context Series
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Women's schooling is strongly related to child survival and other outcomes beneficial to children throughout the developing world, but the reasons behind these statistical connections have been unclear.

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Published March, 2012
By Robert A. Levine, Sarah LeVine, Emily Dexter, Beatrice Schnell-Anzola and Meredith L. Rowe
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP USA)
Series: Child Development in Cultural Context Series
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Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)

Women's schooling is strongly related to child survival and other outcomes beneficial to children throughout the developing world, but the reasons behind this correlation have been unclear. In Literacy and Mothering, the authors show, for the first time, how communicative change plays a key role: Girls acquire academic literacy skills, even in low-quality schools, which enable them, as mothers, to understand public health messages in the mass media and to navigate bureaucratic health services effectively, reducing risks to their children's health. Assessments of these maternal skills in four diverse countries - Mexico, Nepal, Venezuela, and Zambia - support this model and are presented in the book.

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