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Title: Women’s Labor Force Participation and Breastfeeding in Three African Countries

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2018

Abstract: While increases in women's labor force participation might be expected to reduce breastfeeding, prior research results for low and middle income countries are mixed. This study advances knowledge in this area by linking data on women’s employment from IPUMS-International (Minnesota Population Center 2017) with data on breastfeeding from IPUMS-DHS (Boyle, King, and Sobek 2017). We utilize a multilevel ordered logit of data on children drawn from three African DHS: in Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia. Our dependent variable is compliance with World Health Organization standards for exclusive breastfeeding, begun within one hour of birth and continued for at least six months. We test the effect not only of mother's own employment but also regional levels of female agricultural employment and female nonagricultural employment at the second administrative level. We find that women’s individual employment has no effect on length of breastfeeding, but greater levels of female nonagricultural employment are associated with reduced probability of compliance with the WHO standards. Further, mother’s employment interacts with regional female nonagricultural labor such that nonworking women in areas with high levels of nonagricultural employment have notably lower odds of WHO compliance than working women.

Url: https://paa.confex.com/paa/2018/mediafile/ExtendedAbstract/Paper22712/Working women %26 breastfeeding PAA 2018.04.06.pdf

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Authors: Boyle, Elizabeth, H; Gangestad, Greta; King, Miriam, L; Sarkar, Sula

Conference Name: Population Association of America Meetings

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Data Collections: IPUMS International, IPUMS Global Health - DHS

Topics: Fertility and Mortality, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

Countries: Kenya, Malawi, Zambia

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