caa a22 4500 386396981 CHVBK 20180307112141.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021932000025244 doi S0021932000025244 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021932000025244 Maternal schooling and childhood mortality [Elektronische Daten] There is nothing new about the belief that the spread of education with its influence on knowledge and outlook is a central force behind the demographic transition. In 1934 Penrose wrote: ‘when a community has gained the knowledge and acquired the habits necessary to reduce the death rate it will sooner or later gain the knowledge and acquire the habits necessary to reduce the birth rate. There may be time lag between the two processes, but both of them in a large share are the outcome of education' (Penrose, 1934). It is thus surprising that investigation of the specific influence of parental education on the mortality of children in developing countries was neglected until Caldwell's (1979) analysis of survey data from Ibadan, Nigeria, which demonstrated that mother's education was a more decisive determinant of child survival than other family characteristics such as husband's occupation and education. Other studies followed this influential investigation. The greater contribution to mortality decline of educational advance compared to health care provision, it has been argued, is a contribution to the development versus medical technology debate (Mosley, 1985). Inevitably the beginnings of a counter-reaction may be discerned. Caldwell (1986) stressed that the influence of education should not be considered in isolation from the wider context, while Cooksey et al. (1986, unpublished) consider that the effect of maternal education may have been exaggerated. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Cleland John ISI Research Centre, Voorburg van Ginneken Jerome Netherlands Institute of Preventive Health Care, TNO, Leiden, Netherlands Journal of Biosocial Science Cambridge University Press 21/S10(1989), 13-34 0021-9320 21:S10<13 1989 21 JBS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932000025244 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932000025244 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cleland John ISI Research Centre, Voorburg NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- van Ginneken Jerome Netherlands Institute of Preventive Health Care, TNO, Leiden, Netherlands NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Biosocial Science Cambridge University Press 21/S10(1989), 13-34 0021-9320 21:S10<13 1989 21 JBS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge