This study provides empirical evidence on whether literate kids augment the nutritional knowledge of their illiterate mothers. A mother's ability to correctly diagnose her child's height and weight for age is used to measure maternal nutritional knowledge. To mitigate the potential endogeneity of living with literate kids, we use an instrumental variable (IV) approach and estimate unobserved effect probit IV models using longitudinal data from the 2002 and 2006 Young Lives Ethiopian household survey. The results from our preferred specification suggest that an illiterate mother who lives with a literate kid is 6.2 and 4.4 percentage points more likely to correctly diagnose her child's height and weight for age, respectively, relative to an illiterate mother who lives with no literate household member. Falsification tests suggest that our results are not confounded by other factors.

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不识字的母亲会向有识字的孩子学习吗？来自孕产妇营养知识的证据

这项研究为有识字的孩子是否增加了文盲母亲的营养知识提供了经验证据。母亲有能力正确诊断孩子的身高和体重，以此来衡量母亲的营养知识。为了减轻有识字的孩子生活的潜在内生性，我们使用了一种工具变量（IV）方法，并使用2002年和2006年埃塞俄比亚青年生活家庭调查的纵向数据估计了未观察到的概率Probit IV模型。我们首选规范的结果表明，与没有识字家庭成员的文盲母亲相比，与识字孩子一起生活的文盲母亲正确诊断孩子的身高和体重的可能性分别高出6.2和4.4个百分点。 。