- Speaker
- Date
- Tuesday 3 Dec 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
- Type
- Seminar
- Room
- 3-14
- Space
- Polak Building
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.
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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