Public health agencies around the world have renewed efforts to increase the incidence and duration of breastfeeding … significant increase in maternity leave mandates in Canada. We find very large increases in mothers' time away from work post …-reported indicators of maternal and child health captured in our data …

breastfeeding on child disability using data from the National Survey of Family Growth merged to the National Health Interview … Survey for a large nationally representative sample of children aged 1 to 18 years from the U.S. including over 3 … intensive margin among breastfed children, as any breastfeeding has no effect on the extensive margin. We conclude that very …

that promote child health. This study uses the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey - Birth Cohort to explore the causal … effect of breastfeeding on development across the early years of childhood. We examine a range of health, physical, and … health at 9 months. Furthermore, they are protective against obesity and improve cognitive outcomes at 24 months and 54 …

Building on prior evidence that mothers often have a stronger preference for spending on children than fathers do, we … use a randomized experiment to evaluate the impacts of a communication training program for mothers on child health in … husbands and, thereby, boost investments in children's health. We find that the program increases spousal discussion about the …

This paper analyzes the effect of Medicaid eligibility expansions on the health insurance coverage of women giving … birth and on the use of prenatal care and infant health, controlling for year and state effects and state-specific trends … construct estimates of the effect of health insurance on use of prenatal care and infant health. We find that the eligibility …

Because breastfeeding protects against water- and food-borne disease, our model also makes predictions regarding health … with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the … contraceptive properties of nursing. Second, given a preference for having sons, mothers with no or few sons want to conceive again …

Patients who receive more hospital treatment tend to have worse underlying health, confounding estimates of the returns … California births from 1991-2002, including nearly 100,000 births within 20 minutes of midnight, and find that children born just … uncomplicated births, longer hospitals stays incur substantial costs without apparent health benefits …

infant health,' few health economics studies based in developed countries have considered breastfeeding as an important … health behavior that can be influenced by labor market decisions and by public policies. This study examines the effect of … the probability that the mother will initiate breastfeeding by 16-18%. Among those mothers who initiate breastfeeding …