We show that children who are born at or just before the weekend are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer … breastfeeding support services in hospitals at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children … breastfeeding on children’s cognitive development but no effects on health or non-cognitive development during the period of …

sample of children 0–59 months old in Bolivia and a rich set of child health and development outcomes including measures from … (SD) in height for age and weight for age z-scores respectively, between children in the top and bottom quintile of the … expenditure distribution. Children in the top quintile are less likely to have iron deficiency (11 pp) and anemia (17 pp), whereas …