The Effects of a Parenting Program on Maternal Well-Being: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Georg Camehl, Kurt Hahlweg and Katharina Spiess (direktorin@bib.bund.de)

VfS Annual Conference 2018 (Freiburg, Breisgau): Digital Economy from Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association

Abstract: This paper evaluates how the Triple P parenting program affects maternal well-being. We analyze data from a randomized controlled trial and a separate sample of mothers from a deprived neighborhood without a control group. For the latter, we generate a control group using SOEP survey data and evaluate the validity of this procedure. Overall, our results show a positive effect of Triple P on maternal well-being – with the largest effects appearing three years after treatment. Thus, we illustrate that maternal well-being is an additional channel through which parenting programs, as examples of early childhood interventions, benefit families.

Keywords: parenting program; family well-being; instrumental variables estimation; Triple P (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 C26 I26 I31 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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