Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/161338 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 10715
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We evaluate the effects of home visiting targeted towards disadvantaged first-time mothers on maternal and child health outcomes. Our analysis exploits a randomized controlled trial and combines rich longitudinal survey data with unique administrative health data. In a context in which the target group has comprehensive health care access, we find that home visiting has no effects on most types of health utilization, health behaviors, and physical health measures. However, the intervention has a remarkably robust and sizable positive effect on maternal mental health, reducing depressions reported in the survey data and prescriptions of psycholeptics recorded in the administrative data.
Subjects: 
child health
disadvantaged families
mental health
early childhood intervention
JEL: 
I14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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