Maternal breastfeeding and children's cognitive development
- Authors
- 고강혁
- Issue Date
- 8월-2017
- Publisher
- PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
- Citation
- SOCIAL SCIENCE MEDICINE, v.187, pp.101 - 108
- Indexed
- SCIE
SSCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- SOCIAL SCIENCE MEDICINE
- Volume
- 187
- Start Page
- 101
- End Page
- 108
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/139820
- ISSN
- 02779536
- Abstract
- Do children with lower test scores benefit more from breastfeeding than those with higher scores? In this paper, I examine the distributional effects of maternal breastfeeding on the cognitive test scores of 11,544 children who were born in 2000 and 2001 in the United Kingdom using a semiparametric quantile regression model. I find evidence that maternal breastfeeding has larger positive impacts on children with lower test scores. Effects for children below the 20th percentile are about 2-2.5 times greater than those for children above the 80th percentile. I also find that these distributional effects are larger when the duration of breastfeeding is extended. One policy implication is that a public policy aims at promoting breastfeeding might narrow a disparity in children's cognition. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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