| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21013 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21013 |
| Effects of Peer Counseling to Support Breastfeeding: Assessing the External Validity of a Randomized Field Experiment | |
| Onur Altindag; Theodore J. Joyce; Julie A. Reeder | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-03-16 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In an effort to improve breastfeeding, the Oregon WIC Program tested whether a relatively low-cost telephone peer counseling initiative to support breastfeeding could increase the initiation and duration of exclusive breastfeeding among its participants. They conducted a large randomized field experiment (RFE) with over 1900 women from four WIC agencies in the state. In this study we use data from the RFE along with administrative data from the rest of the state to assess whether the results from the RFE can be extended to other agencies in the state. We find small or non-existent effects of peer counseling in the non-experimental settings, which suggest that the experimental estimates may reflect Hawthorne effects. We present evidence of selection into RFE in that exclusive breastfeeding among the controls is significantly greater than among women who were offered but declined to participate in the RFE as well as from women in the rest of the state who had no access to peer counseling. We conclude that despite the strong internal validity of the RFE, extending the program to other agencies in the state would have a limited impact at best on exclusive breastfeeding. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21013 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578686 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Onur Altindag,Theodore J. Joyce,Julie A. Reeder. Effects of Peer Counseling to Support Breastfeeding: Assessing the External Validity of a Randomized Field Experiment. 2015. |
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