Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/302733 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 11248
Publisher: 
CESifo GmbH, Munich
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the impact of workplace breastfeeding laws on the labor supply of mothers. We exploit a unique setting, when throughout 1998-2009 states in the US introduced laws requiring employers to provide break time and a private room for women to express milk or breastfeed. Our results show an increase in breastfeeding initiation and the probability that a child was breastfed at three and six months after birth. We find that workplace breastfeeding significantly increase maternal employment by 4% when children are in breastfeeding age.
Subjects: 
female labor supply
breastfeeding
workplace policies
JEL: 
J08
J13
J16
J18
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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