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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 …

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Breastfeeding and Children's Early Cognitive Outcomes

Rothstein, Donna S. - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 3, pp. 919-931

This paper investigates whether breastfeeding affects 5- to 6-year old children's cognitive development using three U ….S. longitudinal data sets. The results for the full samples roughly point to a dose-response effect of breastfeeding on children …'s cognitive outcomes, with breastfeeding six months or more associated with about one-tenth of a standard deviation increase in …

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Determinants of breastfeeding : the case of a Philippine urban barangay

Tanaka, Rachel M. - In: Philippine Review of Economics 45 (2008) 2, pp. 185-204

This paper determines the factors that affect breastfeeding initiation and continuation in a low-income urban barangay … mother initially feeds her child with breast milk or not. On the other hand, continuation of breastfeeding is also attributed … fed initially with breast milk or not. This paper concludes that breastfeeding measures should therefore be aimed at …

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Paid maternity leave and breastfeeding practice before and after California's implementation of the nation's first paid family leave program

Huang, Rui; Yang, Muzhe - In: Economics & Human Biology 16 (2015) C, pp. 45-59

from the Infant Feeding Practices Study to examine the changes in breastfeeding practices in California relative to other … states before and after the implementation of PFL. We find an increase of 3–5 percentage points for exclusive breastfeeding … and an increase of 10–20 percentage points for breastfeeding at several important markers of early infancy. Our study …

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Les déterminants du statut nutritionnel au Matlab : une analyse empirique.

Grira, Hayfa - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2007

any evidence that a long breastfeeding period has a payoff in terms of better health and nutrition. In contrast, it has a …

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Industrial robots, workers' safety, and health

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca; Wang, Tianyi - 2020

This study explores the relationship between the adoption of industrial robots and workplace injuries using data from the United States (US) and Germany. Our empirical analyses, based on establishment-level data for the US, suggest that a one standard deviation increase in robot exposure reduces...

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