Workplace Breastfeeding and Maternal Employment

Pia Heckl () and Elisabeth Wurm

No 11248, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of workplace breastfeeding laws on the labor supply of mothers. We exploit a unique setting, when throughout 1998-2009 states in the US introduced laws requiring employers to provide break time and a private room for women to express milk or breastfeed. Our results show an increase in breastfeeding initiation and the probability that a child was breastfed at three and six months after birth. We find that workplace breastfeeding significantly increase maternal employment by 4% when children are in breastfeeding age.

Keywords: female labor supply; breastfeeding; workplace policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J08 J13 J16 J18 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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