Del Bono, Emilia; Rabe, Birgitta - 2012
This paper estimates the causal effects of breastfeeding on early child development using exogenous variation in … 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 …