We investigate the importance of subjective expectations of returns to and effort costs of the two main investments that mothers make in newborns: breastfeeding and stimulation. We find heterogeneity across mothers in expected effort costs and expected returns for outcomes in the cognitive,...

This paper evaluates the effect of Paid Family Leave (PFL) on breastfeeding, which we identify using California's enactment of a 2004 PFL policy that ensured mothers up to six weeks of leave at a 55 percent wage replacement rate. We employ synthetic control models for a large, representative...

This paper evaluates the effect of Paid Family Leave (PFL) on breastfeeding, which we identify using California's enactment of a 2004 PFL policy that ensured mothers up to six weeks of leave at a 55 percent wage replacement rate. We employ synthetic control models for a large, representative...

Intensive and controversial marketing of infant formula is believed to be responsible for millions of infant deaths in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), yet to date there have been no rigorous analyses that quantify these effects. To estimate the impact of infant formula on infant...

Intensive and controversial marketing of infant formula is believed to be responsible for millions of infant deaths in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), yet to date there have been no rigorous analyses that quantify these effects. To estimate the impact of infant formula on infant...

Ein zentrales Thema der Marketingforschung ist die Analyse und Beschreibung der Beziehungsqualität zwischen Anbietern und Nachfragern. Für die langfristige Bindung von Kunden an ein Unternehmen ist das Verständnis der Mechanismen, die zu Kundenloyalität führen, von grundlegender Bedeutung....

The road to capitalism -- Accountability, corruption, and the privatization of Alima -- Niche marketing and the production of flexible bodies -- Quality control, discipline, and the remaking of persons -- Ideas of kin and home on the shop floor -- Power and postsocialism.