Trajectories of Early Childhood Skill Development and Maternal Mental Health

Dilek Sevim, Victoria Baranov, Sonia Bhalotra, Joanna Maselko and Pietro Biroli
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Dilek Sevim: University of Basel
Victoria Baranov: University of Melbourne
Sonia Bhalotra: University of Warwick
Joanna Maselko: University of North Carolina
Pietro Biroli: University of Bologna

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Abstract: We investigate the impacts of a perinatal psychosocial intervention on trajectories of maternal mental health and child skills, from birth to age 3. We find improved maternal mental health and functioning (0.17 – 0.29 SD), modest but imprecisely estimated improvements in parental investments (0.07 to 0.11 SD), and transitory improvements in child socioemotional development (0.06 to 0.39 SD). We also find negligible influence of the intervention on physical health and cognitive development. Estimates of a skill production function reveal that the intervention is associated with reduced productivity of maternal mental health and narrowed depression gaps in mother and child outcomes.

Keywords: Mental health; stress; socioemotional; RCT; child development; technology of skill formation; gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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