Del Bono, Emilia; Ermisch, John; Francesconi, Marco - 2008
, especially among British children. Parental behavior appears to respond to permanent family-specific unobservables and to child … idiosyncratic endowments in a way that suggests that parents have equal concerns, rather than efficiency motives, in allocating … their prenatal inputs across children. Evidence of equal concerns emerges also from the analysis of breastfeeding decisions …