Government analysis links female education with improved maternal/public-health outcomes.
Source
Government of Pakistan — https://finance.gov.pk/economic/pak_economy_2026.pdf. Verified in source set / retroactive normalization pending.
What it proves
Female education produces intergenerational externalities.
What it does not prove: This is an association reported in government analysis, not a causal estimate: educated mothers in Pakistan are also disproportionately urban and better-off, so facility access and income are doing part of the work attributed to schooling. The government's own antenatal figures show where education stops mattering — roughly 88% get prenatal consultation and 84% a skilled birth attendant, but postnatal care collapses to about 44%, a supply-side gap no amount of maternal schooling closes.
Memory hook: Educate a girl → maternal and public-health returns collected a generation later
Rebuts the claim: 'Girls' schooling is a welfare expenditure, not a health intervention' — government analysis treats female education as a determinant of maternal and public-health outcomes, making it health spending under another budget line.