Are tuition-free primary education policies associated with lower infant and neonatal mortality in low- and middle-income countries?

Quamruzzaman, Amm; Rodríguez, José M. Mendoza; Heymann, Jody; Kaufman, Jay S.; Nandi, Arijit

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.09.016

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“…At least two researchers separately reviewed sources for each country and compared coding decisions to confirm standard interpretation and to reduce the potential for human error or inconsistency. This followed the rigorous methodology for creating quantitative indicators from detailed educational policy and legal texts used in previous studies (Heymann 2013;Quamruzzaman et al 2014;Heymann et al 2014).…”

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Is free pre-primary education associated with increased primary school completion? A global study

Earle

Milovantseva

Heymann

2018

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The world has made substantial progress in increasing primary education enrollment rates, particularly among girls, following a series of global commitments to increase access to primary education including the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child, Art. 28 (1989), UN Millennium Development Goal 2 (2000), and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Education for All goals (UNESCO 1990, 2010). The greatest overall increase was among lowincome countries where primary school net enrollment rates increased from 54% in 2000 to an estimated 85% in 2015, and the female-male ratio from 0.85 to 0.94 (UNE-SCO IS 2017a). In eleven countries in sub-Saharan Africa, primary enrollment rates rose at least 20 percentage points from 1999 to 2012 (UNESCO 2015).

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Is free pre-primary education associated with increased primary school completion? A global study

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Heymann

2018

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“…In a related study, Makate and Makate [21] established that increasing primary schooling of the mother by an additional year lowered the plausibility of infant and under-five mortality in Malawi by nearly 3.22 and 6.48 percentage points [21]. Quamruzzaman et al [34] used the propensity score matching technique to establish whether UPE policies in less-industrialized economies had any protective effect on neonatal and infant mortality rates. Their results indicated a beneficial effect of UPE policies on infant survival in these countries [34].…”

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“…Quamruzzaman et al [34] used the propensity score matching technique to establish whether UPE policies in less-industrialized economies had any protective effect on neonatal and infant mortality rates. Their results indicated a beneficial effect of UPE policies on infant survival in these countries [34]. In Nigeria, Osili and Long [35] used a differences-in-differences technique to analyze the influence of female learning on fecundity behavior.…”

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Education Policy and Under-Five Survival in Uganda: Evidence from the Demographic and Health Surveys

Makate

2016

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This study seeks to examine the influence of mothers' schooling accomplishments on child mortality outcomes by exploiting the exogenous variability in schooling prompted by the 1997 universal primary education (UPE) policy in Uganda. The UPE policy, which eliminated school fees for all primary school children, provides an ideal setting for investigating the causal effect of the subsequent burst in primary school enrollment on child mortality outcomes in Uganda. The analysis relies on data from three waves of the nationally representative Uganda Demographic and Health Survey conducted in 2000/01, 2006, and 2011. To lessen the bias created by the endogenous nature of education, this study employs the mother's age at UPE implementation as an instrumental variable in the two-stage least squares model. The empirical analysis shows that one-year spent in school translates to a 2.24 percentage point decline in under-five mortality as observed at survey date and a 1.58 percentage point reduction in infant mortality even after accounting for potential confounding variables. These upshots are weakly robust to a variety of sample sizes and different model specifications. Overall, the results suggest that increasing the primary schooling possibilities for women might contribute towards a reduction in child mortality in low-income countries with high child mortality rates.

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“…The latter cannot be achieved without the contribution of various stakeholders. The government, as a policymaker, has the main role and responsibility to pave the way to success, by pledging education for all throughout the nation, for example, education for free policy in developing countries (Quamruzzaman, Rodríguez, Heymann, Kaufman, & Nandi, 2014). Aside from the government's role, teachers also play an overwhelming role because they put in practice all educational policies and regulations.…”

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Teachers’ Knowledge About Higher-Order Thinking Skills and Its Learning Strategy

Retnawati

Djidu

Kartianom

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Higher order thinking skill (HOTS) is one of the students’ abilities that should be developed through teaching and learning. Teachers’ knowledge about HOTS and its teaching and learning tactics is a key to successful education. The purpose of this research is to describe teachers’ knowledge about higher order thinking skills (HOTS). The research involves qualitative study with the phenomenological approach. The research participants are 27 mathematics teachers from state and private junior high schools across 7 provinces in Indonesia. The researcher collected data with a test followed by focus group discussion (FGD) and interviews. The analysis of data involved Bogdan & Biklen model and descriptive statistics for data from the test. The analysis of FGD, and test data intends to get information on 6 sub-themes; teachers’ knowledge about HOTS, importance of HOTS, teaching about HOTS to students, improving students’ HOTS, measuring and assessing HOTS, and teachers’ ability for solving HOTS-based problems. The results indicate that teachers’ knowledge about HOTS, their ability to improve students’ HOTS, solve HOTS-based problems, and measure students' HOTS is still low. There are facts, however, that teachers already understand the importance of HOTS and teaching it by using various innovative learning models. Keywords: HOTS, measurement and assessment, teachers’ knowledge, teaching and learning

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Are tuition-free primary education policies associated with lower infant and neonatal mortality in low- and middle-income countries?

Cited by 16 publications

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Is free pre-primary education associated with increased primary school completion? A global study

Is free pre-primary education associated with increased primary school completion? A global study

Education Policy and Under-Five Survival in Uganda: Evidence from the Demographic and Health Surveys

Teachers’ Knowledge About Higher-Order Thinking Skills and Its Learning Strategy

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