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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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Penaut exposure during pregnancy, breastfeeding and complementary feeding : perceptions of practices in four countries
Boulay, Annabelle; Gancheva, Vyara; Houghton, Julie; … - In: International journal of consumer studies 39 (2015) 1, pp. 51-59
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296958
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Modelling the cost-effectiveness of human milk and breastfeeding in preterm infants in the United Kingdom
Mahon, James; Claxton, Lindsay; Wood, Hannah - In: Health economics review 6 (2016) 54, pp. 1-8
breastfeeding preterm infants, and the differences between mother’s own and donor breast milk. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587181
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The Objective Measurement of World-Leading Research
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015
How should the productivity of research universities be measured? This task is difficult but important. The recent Research Excellence Framework in the UK, which was based on peer review, suggests that there has been a marked improvement in UK academic research in economics and in many other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500324
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Training, job satisfaction and workplace performance in Britain : evidence from WERS 2004
Jones, Melanie K.; Jones, Richard J.; Latreille, Paul L.; … - 2008
This paper analyses the relationship between training, job satisfaction and workplace performance using the British 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS). Several measures of performance are analysed including absence, quits, financial performance, labour productivity and product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003754935
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The UK labour market and the 2008 - 2009 recession
Gregg, Paul; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2010
The recession of 2008-2009 inflicted a larger cumulative loss of UK output than any of the other post-war recessions. Nevertheless, employment rates remained higher than might have been expected given the experience of previous recessions. The main reasons for this appear to be a combination of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003973882
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Employment, inequality and the UK national minimum wage over the medium-term
Dolton, Peter J.; Rosazza-Bondibene, Chiara; Wadsworth, … - 2010
This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the decade since its introduction in 1999. Identification is facilitated by using variation in the bite of the NMW across local labour markets and the different sized year on year up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009155048
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The objective measurement of world-leading research
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015
How should the productivity of research universities be measured? This task is difficult but important. The recent Research Excellence Framework in the UK, which was based on peer review, suggests that there has been a marked improvement in UK academic research in economics and in many other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010477884