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Dr Emilia Del BonoSenior Research Fellow

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Dr Emilia Del Bono is a Senior Research Fellow at ISER. She is currently Principal Investigator leading the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project entitled “The effects of breastfeeding on children, mothers and employers.” The £240,000 project, the most comprehensive study of its kind in the UK, examines the effects of breastfeeding not just on children, but also on mothers and employers.

The research explores the relationship between breastfeeding and a child’s early cognitive and social development. The study looks for any links between breastfeeding and the health of mothers, for example in areas such as post natal depression. It also explores the impact of family-friendly working practices on breastfeeding duration and the mothers’ decisions to return to work. The analysis will be conducted using a range of economic and statistical techniques apt to disentangle the true effect of breastfeeding from other spurious associations.

Emilia’s wider research interests include the economics of the family and labour economics, in particular: fertility and family formation; early childhood outcomes; gender wage gap; schooling; and compensating wage differentials.

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