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58. How Important Is Breastfeeding, Really?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Is Timing of Birth Affecting Breastfeeding?

Bapu: We looked at children's cognitive development and mainly focused on expressive language, nonverbal reasoning and problem solving. And we observed strong effects lasting at least to age five. By age seven it appears that the effects are a little smaller and possibly fading out but we can't say for sure. Bapu: This is an absolute vital and open question. The effect was large. Obviously it's measured with imprecision so you know this is standard error around that.

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