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 …

was not due to increased health and welfare expenditures, but instead to improved governance. Treatment effects are … comparable to those of conventional child health interventions, though conventional programs are likely infeasible in this …

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 …

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 …

physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from … impacts of paternal access to workplace flexibility on maternal postpartum health. We model household demand for paternal … documented--but also indirectly, as fathers' inability to respond to domestic shocks exacerbates the maternal health costs of …

children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …Recent research shows that health at birth is affected by many factors, including maternal education, behaviors, and … generations. Exposure to environmental pollution is one potential determinant of health at birth that has received increasing …

benefits. If income is protective of health, we should see improvements over time in the health for mothers eligible for the … Surveillance Survey, we find in difference-in-difference models that for low-educated mothers of two or more children, the number … of days with poor mental health and the fraction reporting excellent or very good health improved relative to the mothers …

Research has found that season of birth is associated with later health and professional outcomes; what drives this … association remains unclear. In this paper we consider a new explanation: that children born at different times in the year are … women giving birth throughout the year in the United States. Children born in the winter are disproportionally born to women …