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 …

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 …

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 …

breakfast to all children to be eaten in the classroom during the first few minutes of the school day. We find both policies …. We find little evidence of overall improvements in child 24-hour nutritional intake, health, behavior or achievement …, with some evidence of health and behavior improvements among specific subpopulations …