Effects of early childhood intervention on fertility and maternal employment: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial.
Early childhood intervention
Fertility
Randomized experiment
Journal
Journal of health economics
ISSN: 1879-1646
Titre abrégé: J Health Econ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 8410622
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 2019
01 2019
Historique:
received:
25
04
2018
revised:
25
09
2018
accepted:
20
11
2018
pubmed:
31
12
2018
medline:
2
4
2020
entrez:
31
12
2018
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
This paper presents the results of a randomized study of a home visiting program implemented in Germany for low-income, first-time mothers. Besides improving child health and development, a major goal of the program is to improve the participants' economic self-sufficiency and family planning. I use administrative data from the German social security system and detailed telephone surveys to examine the effects of the intervention on maternal employment, welfare benefits, household composition, well-being, and fertility behavior. The study reveals that the intervention decreased maternal employment by 9.3 percentage points and increased subsequent births by 6.4 percentage points, in part through a reduction in abortions.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30594608
pii: S0167-6296(18)30386-2
doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2018.11.003
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Pagination
159-181Informations de copyright
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