Insights Into Heaping From Retrospective Breastfeeding Data

J.A. Klerman

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Abstract: Recall bias is a pervasive problem in the analysis of retrospective data (Shyrock et al., 1973; Ewbank, 1981). The problem is a recurrent concernin the litterature on the determinants of breastfeeding duration, its trend over time, and the effect of breastfeeding on infant mortality.

Keywords: WOMEN; CHILDREN; MORTALITY (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I12 I19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: pages
Date: 1996
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