Effects of early childhood intervention on fertility and maternal employment: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial

  • This paper presents the results of a randomized study of a home visiting program implemented in Germany for low-income, first-time mothers. Besides improving child health and development, a major goal of the program is to improve the participants' economic self-sufficiency and family planning. I use administrative data from the German social security system and detailed telephone surveys to examine the effects of the intervention on maternal employment, welfare benefits, household composition, well-being, and fertility behavior. The study reveals that the intervention decreased maternal employment by 9.3 percentage points and increased subsequent births by 6.4 percentage points, in part through a reduction in abortions.

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Author:Malte SandnerORCiD
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2018.11.003
ISSN:0167-6296
Parent Title (English):Journal of Health Economics
Publisher:Elsevier BV
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Reviewed:Begutachtet/Reviewed
Release Date:2025/02/24
Tag:Early childhood intervention; Fertility; Randomized experiment
Volume:63
Pagenumber:23
First Page:159
Last Page:181
institutes:Fakultät Betriebswirtschaft
Research Themes:Soziale & ökonomische Transformation
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