Figure 1
The flowchart starts with a text box positioned in the top center, labeled “Maternal education”. A vertical line extends from below this text box and connects to a larger text box positioned directly below. The text within the larger box reads, “Mediator: Improved Health Practices, Increased Stimulation, Improved Nutrition, and Enhanced Decision-Making Power”. A vertical line extends from below this text box and splits into three vertical lines, each pointing at a text box. The first box on the left is labeled “E C D Outcome: Health, for example, walking, jumping, and dressing”. The middle box is labeled “E C D Outcome: Learning, for example, Language (saying 10 or more words), literacy and numeracy”. The third box on the right is labeled “E C D Outcome: Psychosocial well-being, for example, (offering to help someone in need, appearing sad or depressed)”.Hypothesised pathways from maternal education to ECD outcomes. Source: Figure created by the authors