Arbeitspapier
Food for thought? Breastfeeding and child development
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 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 affects parental investments in the child and the quality of the mother-child relationship.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IFS Working Papers ; No. W13/31
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Health and Inequality
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- Thema
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Breastfeeding
timing of birth
hospital support
instrumental variables
optimal instruments
cognitive and non-cognitive development
health
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Fitzsimons, Emla
Vera-Hernandez, Marcos
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
- (wo)
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London
- (wann)
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2013
- DOI
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doi:10.1920/wp.ifs.2013.1331
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Fitzsimons, Emla
- Vera-Hernandez, Marcos
- Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
Entstanden
- 2013
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