title: The changing role of breastfeeding in economic development:  a theoretical exposition.
authors.forename: W P
authors.initials: WP
authors.lastname: Butz
mesh_terms: D001695:Biology; D001721:Birth Intervals; D001723:Birth Rate; D001942:Breast Feeding; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003710:Demography; D004467:Economics; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005193:Family Planning Services; D005298:Fertility; D006262:Health; D007182:Income; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D007774:Lactation; D018803:Models, Economic; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D010827:Physiology; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011247:Pregnancy; D012106:Research; D012922:Social Change; D013997:Time Factors; D014886:Weaning
keywords: Biology; Birth Intervals; Birth Spacing; Breast Feeding; Cost Benefit Analysis; Demographic Factors; Economic Development; Economic Factors; Economic Model; Evaluation; Family Planning; Family Planning, Behavioral Methods; Family Size; Fertility; Fertility Measurements; Health; Income; Infant Nutrition; Lactation; Lactation, Prolonged; Maternal Physiology; Models, Theoretical; Nutrition; Physiology; Population; Population Dynamics; Quantitative Evaluation; Research Methodology; Social Development; Supplementary Feeding; Time Factors; Weaning; World