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Breastfeeding and Children's Early Cognitive Outcomes

Rothstein, Donna S. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 3, pp. 919-931

This paper investigates whether breastfeeding affects 5- to 6-year old children's cognitive development using three U ….S. longitudinal data sets. The results for the full samples roughly point to a dose-response effect of breastfeeding on children …'s cognitive outcomes, with breastfeeding six months or more associated with about one-tenth of a standard deviation increase in …

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Paid maternity leave and breastfeeding practice before and after California's implementation of the nation's first paid family leave program

Huang, Rui; Yang, Muzhe - In: Economics & Human Biology 16 (2015) C, pp. 45-59

from the Infant Feeding Practices Study to examine the changes in breastfeeding practices in California relative to other … states before and after the implementation of PFL. We find an increase of 3–5 percentage points for exclusive breastfeeding … and an increase of 10–20 percentage points for breastfeeding at several important markers of early infancy. Our study …

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Doing well by doing good : the role of Mexico's firms in achieving sustainable and inclusive growth

Gabriel, Mabel; Lenain, Patrick; Mehrez, Mirna; … - 2017

The private sector can be a strategic partner in the pursuit of sustainable and inclusive growth, with the ability to have a profound impact, particularly in areas such as climate change, inclusiveness, equality and good governance. Firms could contribute through three different approaches:...

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Monopsony in the Low-Wage Labor Market? Evidence from Minimum Nurse Staffing Regulations

Matsudaira, Jordan D. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2014) 1, pp. 92-102

This paper provides direct evidence on the extent of monopsony power in the low-wage labor market by estimating the firm-level elasticity of labor supply for nurse aides in the long-term care (nursing home) industry. Using exogenous variation in hiring induced by the passage of a state minimum...

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Transforming beyond self : fluidity of parent identity in family decision-making

Parkinson, Joy; Gallegos, Danielle; Russell-Bennett, Rebekah - In: Journal of business research : JBR 69 (2016) 1, pp. 110-119

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Food for thought? : breastfeeding and child development

Fitzsimons, Emla; Vera-Hernandez, Marcos - 2013

breastfeeding support services at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children's development … for a sample of uncomplicated births from low educated mothers. We find that breastfeeding has large effects on children …'s cognitive development, but not on non-cognitive development or health. Regarding mechanisms, we estimate how breastfeeding …

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Revisiting the relationship between WIC participation and breastfeeding among low-income children in the U.S. after the 2009 WIC food package revision

Zhang, Qi; Chen, Chun; Xue, Hong; Park, Kayoung; Wang, Youfa - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 101 (2021), pp. 1-15

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Beliefs about the benefits of breastfeeding : formation and effects on breastfeeding intention and persistence

Topolyan, Iryna; Xu, Xu - In: Journal of interdisciplinary economics 31 (2019) 2, pp. 143-164

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Got milk? : workplace factors related to breastfeeding among working mothers

Spitzmueller, Christiane; Wang, Zhuxi; Zhang, Jing; … - In: Journal of organizational behavior : OB ; the internat. … 37 (2016) 5, pp. 692-718

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Boundary creatures? : employed, breastfeeding mothers and "abjection as practice"

Gatrell, Caroline - In: Organization studies : an international … 40 (2019) 3, pp. 421-442

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