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 …

While the health benefits of breastfeeding for both mothers and children are well known, breastfeeding may make it … the old system. The current paper investigates whether this reform of parental leave impacted breastfeeding initiation and … 2012. Three breastfeeding measures are exploited 1) breastfeeding at birth or no breastfeeding initiation; 2) breastfeeding …

Much research shows that breastfeeding provides short- and long-term health benefits for both mothers and their … children. However, few studies have yet investigated the factors which may promote or inhibit breastfeeding practices in Japan …. To fill this research gap, this paper uses data newly gathered in 2012 on breastfeeding initiation and duration for each …

the poorest, and this translates to a slow decline in the national-level total fertility rate. We find that breastfeeding …

countercyclical relationship between breastfeeding duration and rice prices, which may be a consequence of poorer health and induced …