%0 Report
        %A Chae, Minhee
%A Cai, Yong
%A Kim, Jun Hyung
%A Lavely, William
        %T Unintended Consequences of Family Planning Policies on the Breastfeeding Gap between Sons and Daughters
        %D 2023
        %8 2023 May
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 16190
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16190
        %X We examine the effect of a Chinese family planning policy (FPP) known as "Later, Longer, and Fewer" on the gender gap in breastfeeding. We find that FPP increased the daughter-son breastfeeding gap in favor of sons in rural areas. Mean intensity of the FPP predicts the gender gap to be 35% greater than the gap without FPP. 
The effects are explained by the skewed gender composition of last-born children produced by sex-selective stopping behavior. The findings indicate a way in which FPP, in the context of son preference, widens gender gap in child development.

        %K breastfeeding
%K “Later-Longer-and-Fewer” campaign
%K son preference
%K family planning