Breastfeeding practices and parental employment in Japan
Breastfeeding practices and parental employment in Japan
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DOI：
10.1007/s11150-014-9246-9
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发表时间：
2017-06-01
影响因子：
5.1
通讯作者：
Usui, Emiko
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作者：
Kobayashi, Miki;Usui, Emiko
许多研究表明，母乳喂养对母亲和孩子都有短期和长期的健康益处。然而，很少有研究调查可能促进或抑制日本母乳喂养的因素。为了填补这一研究空白，本文使用了2012年新收集的关于每位母亲的每个孩子的母乳喂养开始和持续时间的数据，这些数据使我们能够估计控制母亲之间未观察到的差异的母亲固定效应模型。与产后离职的母亲相比，产后一年内重返工作岗位的母亲在母乳喂养开始方面没有显着差异，但母乳喂养持续时间短1.654个月。另一方面，如果父亲在生育后按照弹性工作制工作，母乳喂养的开始率较高，持续时间延长了4 418个月。因此，让父亲在弹性工作制下工作将有助于促进日本的母乳喂养做法。
Much research shows that breastfeeding provides short- and long-term health benefits for both mothers and their children. However, few studies have yet investigated the factors which may promote or inhibit breastfeeding practices in Japan. To fill this research gap, this paper uses data newly gathered in 2012 on breastfeeding initiation and duration for each child of each mother, which enable us to estimate mother fixed-effects models that control for unobserved differences among mothers. Compared to mothers who leave their jobs after childbirth, mothers who return to work within a year after childbirth do not significantly differ in breastfeeding initiation but have a breastfeeding duration which is shorter by 1.654 months. On the other hand, when fathers work under a flextime system after childbirth, breastfeeding initiation is higher, and the duration is longer by 4.418 months. Therefore, letting fathers work under a flextime system would help promote breastfeeding practices in Japan.