Mother's Education, Health Practices and Children's Health Needs: A Variance Components Model
使用方差成分模型，发现母亲教育水平与儿童康复天数和就医次数正相关，且良好的母亲健康实践每年额外带来1.7天康复和2.3次就医。
The association between parents' health practices and children's health requirements is explored in this paper. A variance components model, incorporating unobserved family effects in the estimation procedure, is used. Mother's education is positively related to both children's days of recuperation and visits to medical facilities. Although each of the health practices examined here is significantly related to the mother's education, each health practice is also related to children's health needs independently of mother's education: Good maternal health practices are associated with 1.7 additional days of recuperation and 2.3 additional visits to medical facilities for a child per annum.