5. RESULTS IN HEALTHIER, BETTER-EDUCATED CHILDREN

Better-educated mothers have healthier and better-educated children, who are more likely to benefit from adequate nutrition and immunizations, attend school more regularly and longer, and study more frequently.
On average, each additional year of school a mother attends leads to her children completing four more months of school by the age of 15 to 18.*

*Bhalotra, Sonia, Kenneth Harttgen, and Stephan Klasen. 2013. The Impact of School Fees on the Intergenerational Transmission of Education. Background paper commissioned for EFA Global Monitoring Report 2013/4. Paris: UNESCO.