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- 09-20-2010
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US News & World report
Increasing levels of education among women worldwide helped save the lives of millions of children a year, a new study shows. Between 1970 and 2009, the average number of years of education among women aged 25 and older more than doubled. The increase was more than triple for women in poor countries. During that same period, deaths among children under age 5 dropped from 16 million to 7.8 million a year. About 51 percent of that drop in children's deaths can be attributed to increased levels of education among women of childbearing age, according to the researchers. (more…)
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