Abstract:Poverty is a household name in developing countries such as Nigeria and has been recognized as a major problem inhibiting economic growth and development. As such, this study examined poverty, household characteristics and child health care in Nigeria with the aim of finding out how poverty affects child health care considering host of household characteristics. The theoretical framework is based on household utility maximization derived from the human capital analysis, while logit regression estimation techni… Show more
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