Growing Pains: The Age 14 Follow-up of the Preparing for Life Trial

Health Economics seminar

Many early childhood intervention studies experience a dissolution of treatment effects in the aftermath of the intervention. Using a randomised experiment, this study investigates the impact of sustained investment in parenting early in life on outcomes later in adolescence. 

Speaker
Orla Doyle
Date
Tuesday 3 Dec 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
Type
Seminar
Room
3-14
Space
Polak Building
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The Preparing for Life programme, one of the longest running field experiments in Europe, provided at-risk families with an intensive home visiting programme from pregnancy until age five. End-line results, and follow-up results at age 9, demonstrate that the programme was effective in raising cognitive skills by between 0.55-0.7 SD. 

This paper will report on the results of the age 14 follow-up and will include measures of IQ, executive functioning, time and risk preferences, health behaviours, anti-social behaviour, as well as biological aging.

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