The empirical literature on human capital investment generally focuses on education and health investments using reduced form models that integrate the health production process with a model of household choice. The demand studies for health outcomes usually evaluate the impact that household and community level characteristics, like the usage and availability of health facilities, may have on distinct health measures. Among these, many have focused on the effect that mothers’ education has on children’s health measures such as birth weight, height and weight for age Z-scores or nutrient intake. .
