assessed. The main result was that the children’s age and breastfeeding were significant predictors of DoG in children, even …-regulation of energy intake, neuroscientific evidence, and breastfeeding. Further studies should use equivalent measures of DoG in … children and parents to further explore this link between breastfeeding and DoG in a genetically sensitive design. …

breastfeeding support services at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children's development … for a sample of uncomplicated births from low educated mothers. We find that breastfeeding has large effects on children …'s cognitive development, but not on non-cognitive development or health. Regarding mechanisms, we estimate how breastfeeding …

This paper estimates the causal effects of breastfeeding on early child development using exogenous variation in … breastfeeding support policies across UK maternity hospitals. Based on data from the Millennium Cohort Study, we find that mothers … exclusively at 4 and 8 weeks than mothers who give birth in other hospitals. The effect of breastfeeding are found to be large and …

Much research shows that breastfeeding provides short- and long-term health benefits for both mothers and their … children. However, few studies have yet investigated the factors which may promote or inhibit breastfeeding practices in Japan …. To fill this research gap, this paper uses data newly gathered in 2012 on breastfeeding initiation and duration for each …

formation. We start by presenting evidence showing that breastfeeding duration is a valid measure of the quality of early … breastfeeding duration is associated with higher levels of patience and altruism as well as a lower willingness to take risk …. We can further rule out that the results are purely driven by nutritional effects of breastfeeding. Altogether, our …

Background: Early initiation of breastfeeding and exclusive breastfeeding practices have been argued to be one of the … of timely initiation of breastfeeding on child health in Ghana. Methods: Cross sectional data using secondary data based … were used in estimating the effect of breastfeeding and other socio demographic indicators on the health of the child. Data …

investigated address particular complications and issues of RMNCH, e.g., preterm birth, non-exclusive breastfeeding, and sexually … example, the disease burden related to non-exclusive breastfeeding was given as 14.39 billion international dollars (ID) (2012 …

Sharia law increased fertility, the duration of breastfeeding and primary school enrolment. Evidence further suggests that …