Mandal, Bidisha; Roe, Brian; Fein, Sara - In: Review of Economics of the Household 12 (2014) 2, pp. 237-257
duration and duration of any, as well as of exclusive, breastfeeding, and daily work hours and daily breastfeedings at infant …We study postpartum decisions about paid work and breastfeeding using a simultaneous equations model. For our sample of … age 3 months. We find that returning to paid work 1 week earlier reduces any breastfeeding duration by about two-thirds of …