Differential effects of mother’s and child’s postnatal WIC participation on breastfeeding

Iryna Topolyan and Xu Xu

Applied Economics, 2017, vol. 49, issue 23, 2216-2225

Abstract: We evaluate the effect of postnatal participation in the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) programme on breastfeeding decisions using the data from the IFPS II. We find that the infant’s WIC participation positively affects the hazard of discontinuing breastfeeding, both partial and exclusive (and is thus associated with abbreviated breastfeeding duration). No significant association is found between the mother’s participation and the hazards of stopping exclusive or partial breastfeeding. Such differential effects might be a result of the programme’s policy, according to which the infant, but not the mother needs to be enrolled to receive free formula.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2016.1234702

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