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Revisiting the relationship between WIC participation and breastfeeding among low-income children in the U.S. after the 2009 WIC food package revision
Zhang, Qi; Chen, Chun; Xue, Hong; Park, Kayoung; Wang, Youfa - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 101 (2021), pp. 1-15
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Contextualizing online human milk sharing: Structural factors and lactation disparity among middle income women in the U.S.
Palmquist, Aunchalee E.L.; Doehler, Kirsten - In: Social Science & Medicine 122 (2014) C, pp. 140-147
months of their child's life. Internet-facilitated human milk sharing is an emergent response to breastfeeding challenges …, reproductive history, lactation history, and levels of social support and health care provider support for breastfeeding were …, breastfeeding exclusivity 0–6 months, and breastfeeding duration. Differences in lactation sufficiency and breastfeeding outcomes …
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Prenatal investments, breastfeeding, and birth order
Buckles, Kasey; Kolka, Shawna - In: Social Science & Medicine 118 (2014) C, pp. 66-70
immediately after birth. These investments include seeking prenatal care, taking prenatal vitamins, and breastfeeding. In this …
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Prenatal attitudes and parity predict selection into a U.S. child health program: A short report
Martin-Anderson, Sarah - In: Social Science & Medicine 95 (2013) C, pp. 128-132
toward breastfeeding determine enrollment in a U.S nutrition program that offers free Infant Formula. I also find that the …
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Tainted milk : breastmilk, feminisms, and the politics of environmental degradation
Boswell-Penc, Maia - 2006
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Rottenberg and the economics of sport after 50 years : an evaluation
Sloane, Peter J. (contributor) - 2006
Simon Rottenberg's seminal 1956 article in the Journal of Political Economy, 1956, is generally accepted as the starting point for the development of the economics of sport. While he recognised that certain features of professional sports leagues were unusual he saw little reason to treat this...
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Place of work and place of residence : informal hiring networks and labor market outcomes
Bayer, Patrick J.; Ross, Stephen L.; Topa, Giorgio - 2005
We use a novel dataset and research design to empirically detect the effect of social interactions among neighbors on labor market outcomes. Specifically, using Census data that characterize residential and employment locations down to the city block, we examine whether individuals residing in...
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Trends in quality-adjusted skill premia in the United States, 1960-2000
Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae - 2010
This paper presents new evidence that increases in college enrollment lead to a decline in the average quality of college graduates between 1960 and 2000, resulting in a decrease of 6 percentage points in the college premium. We show that although a standard demand and supply framework can...
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Decomposing the sources of earnings inequality : assessing the role of reallocation
Andersson, Fredrik; Davis, Elizabeth E.; Freedman, Matthew - 2011
This paper exploits longitudinal employer-employee matched data from the U.S. Census Bureau to investigate the contribution of worker and firm reallocation to changes in earnings inequality within and across industries between 1992 and 2003. We find that factors that cannot be measured using...
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Views among economists : professional consensus or point-counterpoint?
Gordon, Roger H.; Dahl, Gordon B. - 2013
To what degree do economists disagree about key economic questions? To provide evidence, we make use of the responses to a series of questions posed to a distinguished panel of economists put together by the Chicago School of Business. Based on our analysis, we find a broad consensus on these...
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