Intensive Parenting: Fertility and Breastfeeding Duration in the United States.
Using 30 years of longitudinal data from a nationally representative cohort of women, we study the association between breastfeeding duration and completed fertility, fertility expectations, and birth spacing. We find that women who breastfeed their first child for five months or longer are a distin...
| Publicado en: | Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 55; no. 5; pp. 1681 - 1705 |
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