Increased educational attainment and its effect on child mortality in 175 countries between 1970 and 2009: a systematic analysis.

By E. Gakidou, Krycia Cowling, R. Lozano, Christopher J. L. Murray. The Lancet, 2010

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National, Regional, and Global Trends in Infertility Prevalence Since 1990: A Systematic Analysis of 277 Health Surveys (2012, methodology): “We used a time-varying covariate to inform our estimates, namely, maternal education (average years of schooling for women of reproductive age) [22].”
What We Learn about Girls’ Education from Interventions That Do Not Focus on Girls (2019, background): “…also have lower child mortality rates: data from 175 countries between 1970 and 2009 show that 51 percent of the reduction in deaths in children younger than 5 years in the past 40 years could be attributed to the increased education attainment in women of reproductive age (Gakidou et al. 2010).”
Paths to Development: Is there a Bangladesh Surprise? (2014, neutral): “This achievement is particularly striking considering the fact that maternal schooling is considered to be a key channel in explaining the global reduction in child mortality (Gakidou et al., 2010).”
Magnitude, temporal trends, and projections of the global prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (2017, methodology): “For example, it is assumed that the UN population projections for the future 21 are correct and that the covariates that we used in our model for access to health care 13 and literacy, 12 which have not been modelled into the future, will remain unchanged after 2015.”