Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/249693 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IFS Working Paper No. W21/38
Publisher: 
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
Abstract: 
We show that children who are born at or just before the weekend are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer breastfeeding support services in hospitals at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children's development in the first five years of life, for a sample of births of low educated mothers. We find large effects of breastfeeding on children's cognitive development but no effects on health or non-cognitive development during the period of childhood we consider. Regarding mechanisms, we study how breastfeeding affects parental investments and the quality of the mother-child relationship.
JEL: 
I14
I18
J13
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
995.16 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.