Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
EUHEA- European Health Economıcs Association, Oslo, Norveç, 5 - 08 Temmuz 2022, ss.35-36
The compulsory schooling reform introduced in 1997 had a substantial effect on the middle
school graduations of women. By taking advantage of this natural experiment, we aim at investigating
the impacts of women education on health-related decisions and health outcomes
for themselves and their children. After confirming the validity of the reform effect, we continued
our research by using an instrumental variable approach in accordance with the fuzzy
regression design. The results reveal that having at least a middle school diploma contributes
to the possibility of using family planning methods and it also has a significant impact on the
timing, and frequency of antenatal care demand. We also observed alterations in healthcare
institution preferences caused by middle school education. For instance, rather weak evidence
suggests 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 service
provider is also reported. Even education effect on self health-related healthcare usage
found 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 the
improvements observed in woman’s likelihood of being in a healthy BMI range, we find evidence
for 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 measures
for children. Based on these results it is concluded that the impact of middle school
education can be traced into various elements that construct the woman’s decision pattern for
health and consequently in her and her children’s health outcomes.