with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … contraceptive properties of nursing. Second, given a preference for having sons, mothers with no or few sons want to conceive again …

with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the … outcomes. We find that child-mortality patterns mirror those of breastfeeding with respect to gender and its interactions with … female child mortality in India, or about 22,000 "missing girls" each year …

infant outcomes once we implement a fixed effects approach that accounts for time-invariant factors common to mothers. While …