Behrman (1982) find that child health and nutrition are positively associated with schooling, except in low-income rural areas. These references suggest the existence of bottlenecks that need to be addressed: low education does not allow other interventions to improve health care (as in Jalan and Ravallion, 2003) or poverty does not allow education to improve child health (as in Wolfe and Behrman, 1982). The paper is organized as follows: Section 2 outlines the basic methodology followed in the paper, Section 3 describe the sampling scheme while Section 4 describes the data and comments on the main variables of the analysis