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breastfeeding support policies across UK maternity hospitals. Based on data from the Millennium Cohort Study, we find that mothers … exclusively at 4 and 8 weeks than mothers who give birth in other hospitals. The effect of breastfeeding are found to be large and … literature, we find no statistically significant impact of breastfeeding on a number of health outcomes, but we see an …
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for a sample of uncomplicated births from low educated mothers. We find that breastfeeding has large effects on children … breastfeeding support services at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children's development …'s cognitive development, but not on non-cognitive development or health. Regarding mechanisms, we estimate how breastfeeding …
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€™s development for a sample of uncomplicated births from low educated mothers. We find that breastfeeding has large effects on …We show that children who are born at the weekend or just before are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer … breastfeeding support services at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on childrenâ …
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maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel …
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breastfeeding on children’s cognitive development but no effects on health or non-cognitive development during the period of … breastfeeding support services in hospitals at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children …We show that children who are born at or just before the weekend are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer …
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. Interestingly, the Adolescent Motherhood, Human Capital, Child Development, Cognition, Health, Nutrition, Gender, Parenting effect … age on offspring human capital in terms of health and cognition. The analysis relies on mother fixed effects to allow for … phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age …
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maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026021
have played a small part in reducing health inequalities in childhood weight in Gateshead when comparing with other local …
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This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149043
This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153307