Mandal, Bidisha; Roe, Brian; Fein, Sara - In: Review of Economics of the Household 12 (2014) 2, pp. 237-257
We study postpartum decisions about paid work and breastfeeding using a simultaneous equations model. For our sample of … duration and duration of any, as well as of exclusive, breastfeeding, and daily work hours and daily breastfeedings at infant … age 3 months. We find that returning to paid work 1 week earlier reduces any breastfeeding duration by about two-thirds of …