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

Camehl, Georg F.; Spieß, C. Katharina; Hahlweg, Kurt

doi:10.1515/bejeap-2020-0084

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“…However, very few studies look at the specific impact on parents or investigate the role of additional childcare responsibilities (two exceptions, discussed below, are Adams-Prassl et al 2020b andEtheridge andSpantig 2020). Parental well-being is an important outcome, both in itself and as a predictor of negative child outcomes (e.g., Berger and Spiess 2011;Camehl et al 2020;Smith 2004;Mensah and Kiernan 2010;Spinelli et al 2020, Griffith 2020; UKE Hamburg 2020), relationship dissolution or divorce (Frank and Gertler 1991), costs to the economy (e.g., Oswald et al 2015;Naylor et al 2012;McDaid 2011), and even compliance with measures introduced to stop the spread of Covid-19 (Krekel et al 2020). As such, policymakers may wish to know the magnitude of impacts on parental well-being in order to decide on optimal lockdown policies and to direct remedial policy, such as mental health interventions during the pandemic and in its aftermath.…”

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Parental well-being in times of Covid-19 in Germany

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We examine the effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of day care center and school closures, which may be regarded as a “disruptive exogenous shock” to family life. We make use of a novel representative survey of parental well-being collected in May and June 2020 in Germany, when schools and day care centers were closed but while other measures had been relaxed and new infections were low. In our descriptive analysis, we compare well-being during this period with a pre-crisis period for different groups. In a difference-in-differences design, we compare the change for individuals with children to the change for individuals without children, accounting for unrelated trends as well as potential survey mode and context effects. We find that the crisis lowered the relative well-being of individuals with children, especially for individuals with young children, for women, and for persons with lower secondary schooling qualifications. Our results suggest that public policy measures taken to contain Covid-19 can have large effects on family well-being, with implications for child development and parental labor market outcomes.

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Parental well-being in times of Covid-19 in Germany

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Raising the future together: Assessing the impact of the Chics program on primary caregivers in low-income daycares

van der Merwe,

Senyolo,

van Niekerk

2024

Sustainable Futures

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Impacts of a Large-Scale Parenting Program: Experimental Evidence from Chile

Carneiro,

Galasso,

Garcia

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Journal of Political Economy

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This paper presents results from a large-scale experimental evaluation of the impacts on parents and children of a national parenting program in Chile. The program is low cost: it lasts only for six to eight weeks, and it is administered to groups (of 8 to 12 parents) rather than individuals. It is implemented by the national health system, taking advantage of its existing physical infrastructure, and the deep staff knowledge about the constraints faced by parents and children in each location. We find that children whose parents are offered the opportunity to participate in this program experience increases in their vocabulary and socio-emotional development scores of 0.1 standard deviations (SD), which are mirrored by improvements in parenting behaviors and parenting beliefs of the same magnitude. These impacts are observed almost three years after the intervention ends, far outlasting its duration.JEL No: H43, I10, I20, I38 Keywords: parenting, early childhood development 1 We thank participants in several seminars and conferences for comments.

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

Cited by 4 publications

References 52 publications

Parental well-being in times of Covid-19 in Germany

Parental well-being in times of Covid-19 in Germany

Raising the future together: Assessing the impact of the Chics program on primary caregivers in low-income daycares

Impacts of a Large-Scale Parenting Program: Experimental Evidence from Chile

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