Ohonba, Abieyuwa Itohan (PhD)
Abiey uwa Ohonba holds a Bachelor’s in Social Science and a Master’s in Economics from Nigeria, as well as a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Economics from the University of Cape Town. She lectures at the School of Economics, UJ College of Business and Economics, specialising in econometrics. Her innovative thesis applied a dynamic dataset and various econometric techniques to investigate the role of maternal education, employment and fertility choices on child health outcomes in South Africa. Understanding these relationships is particularly important, given the compelling evidence of early childhood health on economic and social trajectories. The empirical findings indicate that these socio-economic attributes are indeed significant drivers of children’s nutr itional health in South Africa. The inference from this thesis suggests that policies geared towards the improvement of mothers’ socioeconomic characteristics could contribute to children’s health in South Africa.
Supervisor: Prof NN Ngepah Co-Supervisor: Prof BD Simo-Kengne
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