Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, İktisat Bölümü, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2021
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Öğrenci: Aysenur Ahsen
Asıl Danışman (Eş Danışmanlı Tezler İçin): Ilhan Can Özen
Özet:
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 modifications in healthcare
preference over institutions caused by middle school education. For instance, some evidence
suggests a shift from private to public preference over institutions for antenatal care and delivery,
and an adverse education effect on acknowledging family physician as a primary health
service provider is also reported. 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 identified on the different
dimensions of decision-making for women in the different spheres of health, with specific importance
given to the consequences of child health of these decisions. We have also checked
for the exogenous effect of father‘s education and results suggest that the parent’s education
effect on children that we have found may not be a gender-neutral effect.