Low levels of maternal education and the proximate determinants of childhood mortality: a little learning is not a dangerous thing.

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Published in Soc Sci Med on December 10, 2004

Authors

Alaka Malwade Basu1, Rob Stephenson

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Sociology, Cornell University, 352 Uris Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. ab54@cornell.edu

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