Can Early Intervention Improve Maternal Well-being? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Orla Doyle, Liam Delaney, Christine O'Farrelly, Nick Fitzpatrick and Michael Daly
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Christine O'Farrelly: Centre for Mental Health, Imperial College London
Nick Fitzpatrick: UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy, University College Dublin
Michael Daly: Behavioural Science Centre, Stirling Management School, Stirling University

No 2015-015, Working Papers from Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group

Abstract: This study estimates the effect of a targeted policy intervention on global and experienced measures of maternal well-being. Participants from a disadvantaged community are randomly assigned during pregnancy to an intensive home visiting parenting program or a control group. The intervention has no impact on global well-being as measured by life satisfaction and parenting stress or experienced negative affect using episodic reports derived from the Day Reconstruction Method (DRM). Treatment effects are observed on measures of experienced positive affect from the DRM and a measure of mood yesterday. This suggests that early intervention may produce some improvements in experienced well-being.

Keywords: well-being; randomized controlled trial; early intervention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 C93 I00 I39 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-12
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