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Food for thought? Breastfeeding and child development
Fitzsimons, Emla; Vera-Hernandez, Marcos - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331031
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Food for thought? : breastfeeding and child development
Fitzsimons, Emla; Vera-Hernandez, Marcos - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224803
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Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India
Jayachandran, Seema; Kuziemko, Ilyana - eSocialSciences - 2009
Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. The implications for breastfeeding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017996
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MOTHERS' MILK AND MEASURES OF ECONOMIC OUTPUT
Smith, Julie; Ingham, Lindy - In: Feminist Economics 11 (2005) 1, pp. 41-62
Thoughtful economists have long been aware of the limitations of national accounting and GDP in measuring economic activity and material well-being. Feminist economists criticize the failure to count women's unpaid and reproductive work in measures of economic production. This paper examines the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005484750
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Food for Thought? Breastfeeding and Child Development
Fitzsimons, Emla; Vera-Hernández, Marcos - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2014
breastfeeding support services at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on childrenâ …€™s development for a sample of uncomplicated births from low educated mothers. We find that breastfeeding has large effects on … breastfeeding affects parental investments in the child and the quality of the mother-child relationship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132451
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Are There Differences in the Health-Socioeconomic Status Relationship over the Life Cycle? Evidence from Germany
Bender, Keith A.; Habermalz, Steffen - 2005
Most research on the relationship between health and socioeconomic status (SES) controls for changing age or investigates the relationship for a particular age range. This paper, however, examines changes in the relationship across ages, as well as controls for potential endogeneity in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262661
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Economics of healthy aging in India: A multidimensional perspective
Malik, Manzoor Ahmad; Singh, S. P.; Pattanaik, Falguni - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-22
Aging is the foremost challenge in recent times, given the demographic shift in populations across the world. It implies the costs of healthcare burden and involves economic and social security challenges through shortage of labor supply, consumption-saving paradox, increase in expenditure on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014553740
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Six-Country Survey on COVID-19
Belot, Michèle; Choi, Syngjoo; Jamison, Julian C.; … - 2020
This paper presents a new data set collected on representative samples across 6 countries: China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, the UK and the four largest states in the US. The information collected relates to work and living situations, income, behavior (such as social-distancing, hand-washing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269908
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An Analysis of Sibling Correlations in Health Using Latent Variable Models
Halliday, Timothy J.; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014
We investigate sibling correlations in health status using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and Bayesian methods that allow us to estimate the covariance structure of a system of latent variable equations. Across a battery of outcomes, we estimate that between 50% and 60% of health status can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481572
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Six-country survey on COVID-19
Belot, Michèle; Choi, Syngjoo; Jamison, Julian C.; … - 2020
This paper presents a new data set collected on representative samples across 6 countries: China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, the UK and the four largest states in the US. The information collected relates to work and living situations, income, behavior (such as social-distancing, hand-washing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213141