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The effect of breastfeeding on children's cognitive and noncognitive development
Borra, Cristina; Iacovou, Maria; Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283990
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The effect of breastfeeding on children's cognitive and noncognitive development
Borra, Cristina; Iacovou, Maria; Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009558933
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The Effect of Breastfeeding on Children's Cognitive and Noncognitive Development
Borra, Cristina - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104046
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The effect of breastfeeding on children's cognitive and noncognitive development
Borra, Cristina; Iacovou, Maria; Sevilla, Almudena - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 19 (2012) 4, pp. 496-515
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009690223
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Work and breastfeeding decisions are jointly determined for higher socioeconomic status US mothers
Mandal, Bidisha; Roe, Brian; Fein, Sara B. - In: Review of Economics of the Household 12 (2014) 2, pp. 237-257
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010410250
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The effect of breastfeeding on young adult wages : new evidence from the add health
Cesur, Resul; Sabia, Joseph J.; Kelly, Inas Rashad; … - In: Review of Economics of the Household 15 (2017) 1, pp. 25-51
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011748247
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Returning to work after childbirth : maternal experiences and spillover-crossover effects on the infant
Beijers, Roseriet - In: Maintaining a sustainable work-life balance : an …, (pp. 139-145). 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014582667
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Height and the disease environment of children : the association between mortality and height in the Netherlands 1850-1940
Quanjer, Björn - In: The economic history review 77 (2024) 2, pp. 391-415
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534677
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Labour Income Uncertainty, Risk Aversion and Home Ownership
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2004
In this paper we investigate the effect of labour income uncertainty on the probability of home ownership in Germany and Spain. This study is motivated by two facts. Firstly, theoretical models provide ambiguous results in this issue. Secondly, there is limited previous empirical evidence and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261778
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Gender Differences in Job Assignment and Promotion on a Complexity Ladder of Jobs
Vartiainen, Juhana; Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2004
This paper studies gender differences in the allocation of workers across jobs of different complexity using panel data on Finnish metalworkers. These data provide a measure for the complexity of the workers' tasks that can be used to construct a complexity ladder of jobs. We study whether women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261929