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 …

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 …

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 …