The association of maternal education with access to maternal care and child mortality in Nigeria: A secondary data regression-based analysis

Chekwube Madichie; James Lomas; Luigi Siciliani

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0337367

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The association of maternal education with access to maternal care and child mortality in Nigeria: A secondary data regression-based analysis

Chekwube Madichie ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: chekwube.madichie@york.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York, York, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9405-6264

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James Lomas,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York, York, United Kingdom
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Luigi Siciliani

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York, York, United Kingdom
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The association of maternal education with access to maternal care and child mortality in Nigeria: A secondary data regression-based analysis

Chekwube Madichie,
James Lomas,
Luigi Siciliani

Published: February 5, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0337367

About the Authors

Chekwube Madichie

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: chekwube.madichie@york.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York, York, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9405-6264

James Lomas

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Luigi Siciliani

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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