Paid Maternity Leave and Breastfeeding in Urban China
| Autor: | Xiao-yuan Dong, Yueping Song, Nan Jia |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Urban china 05 social sciences Breastfeeding General Business Management and Accounting Gender Studies 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Maternity leave 030225 pediatrics 0502 economics and business College education 050207 economics Psychology Demography Social status |
| Zdroj: | Feminist Economics. 24:31-53 |
| ISSN: | 1466-4372 1354-5701 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13545701.2017.1380309 |
| Popis: | Using data from the 2010 Survey on Chinese Women's Social Status, this contribution estimates the effect of paid maternity leave on breastfeeding duration in urban China during the 1988–2008 period. The analysis applies a policy-based identification strategy to control for the endogenous relationship between paid leave entitlements and breastfeeding decisions. Estimates show that paid maternity leave has a strong positive effect on breastfeeding duration. Specifically, if the length of paid leave increases by thirty days, then the probability of breastfeeding for at least six months increases by 12 percentage points. Between 1988 and 2008, the average length of paid leave for mothers without a college education decreased by twenty-three days, which reduced these mothers’ probability of breastfeeding for at least six months by 9 percentage points. These results support the view that paid maternity leave enhances the ability of employed women to sustain breastfeeding and call for universal paid leav... |
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