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Breastfeeding Practices and Parental Employment in Japan

Kobayashi, Miki; Usui, Emiko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Much research shows that breastfeeding provides short- and long-term health benefits for both mothers and their … children. However, few studies have yet investigated the factors which may promote or inhibit breastfeeding practices in Japan …. To fill this research gap, this paper uses data newly gathered in 2012 on breastfeeding initiation and duration for each …

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Does Breastfeeding Support at Work Help Mothers and Employers at the Same Time?

Del Bono, Emilia; Pronzato, Chiara D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper asks whether the availability of breastfeeding facilities at the workplace helps to reconcile breastfeeding … and work commitments. Using data from the 2005 UK Infant Feeding Survey, we model the joint probability to return to work … and breastfeeding and analyse its association with the availability of breastfeeding facilities. Our findings indicate …

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The Effect of Breastfeeding on Children's Cognitive and Noncognitive Development

Borra, Cristina; Iacovou, Maria; Sevilla, Almudena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper uses propensity score matching methods to investigate the relationship between breastfeeding and children …'s cognitive and noncognitive development. We find that breastfeeding for four weeks is positively and statistically significantly … associated with higher cognitive test scores, by around one tenth of a standard deviation. The association between breastfeeding …

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Is Leaving Home a Hardship?

Ribar, David C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Nest-leaving – the transition of young adults from their parents' homes to other living arrangements – is a major life-course milestone. Although the causes of nest-leaving have been extensively researched, only a few studies have examined the changes in young adults' own assessments of...

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Food Security and Wheat Prices in Afghanistan: A Distribution-Sensitive Analysis of Household-Level Impacts

D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR) estimator, based on influence functions to examine...

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Long-Run Effects of Gestation During the Dutch Hunger Winter Famine on Labor Market and Hospitalization Outcomes

Scholte, Robert; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Lindeboom, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial demarcations are clear, it was severe, it was not anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after...

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Conflict, Food Price Shocks, and Food Insecurity: The Experience of Afghan Households

D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Using nationally-representative household survey data and confidential geo-coded data on violence, we examine the linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict...

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The First World War and Working-Class Food Consumption in Britain

Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

In this paper we reassess the food consumption and dietary impact of the regimes of food and food price control and eventually, food rationing, that were introduced in Britain during the First World War. At the end of the War the Sumner Committee was convened to investigate into effects of these...

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The Effect of Economic Crises on Nutritional Status: Evidence from Russia

Stillman, Steven; Thomas, Duncan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

measures of nutrition – gross energy intake, two dimensions of diet quality, body mass index (BMI), which is a measure of net …

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A Validation Study of Transgenerational Effects of Childhood Conditions on the Third Generation Offspring's Economic and Health Outcomes Potentially Driven by Epigenetic Imprinting

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Pinger, Pia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

At the crossroads of economics and human biology, this paper examines the extent to which pre-puberty nutritional conditions in one generation affect productivity-related outcomes in later generations. Recent studies have found a negative association between conditions at ages 8-12 and the...

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