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58. How Important Is Breastfeeding, Really?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Parenting's Biggest Questions Using Data

Emily Oster is a professor of economics at Brown University. Her books about pregnancy and early parenting have been best sellers. She studies health behaviors and also statistical methods. It's hard to know if breastfeeding is causing improved health outcomes, or if they're due to factors that researchers can't see or control for.

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