This paper uses propensity score matching methods to investigate the relationship between breastfeeding and children …'s cognitive and noncognitive development. We find that breastfeeding for four weeks is positively and statistically significantly … associated with higher cognitive test scores, by around one tenth of a standard deviation. The association between breastfeeding …

This paper uses propensity score matching methods to investigate the relationship between breastfeeding and children …'s cognitive and noncognitive development. We find that breastfeeding for four weeks is positively and statistically significantly … associated with higher cognitive test scores, by around one tenth of a standard deviation. The association between breastfeeding …

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 …

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 …

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 …

countercyclical relationship between breastfeeding duration and rice prices, which may be a consequence of poorer health and induced …