Trajectories of Early Childhood Skill Development and Maternal Mental Health
研究围产期心理社会干预对母亲心理健康和儿童技能从出生到3岁发展轨迹的影响，发现干预改善了母亲心理健康和功能，对儿童社会情感发展有短暂改善，但对身体和认知影响微弱。
We investigate the impacts of a perinatal psychosocial intervention on trajectories of maternal mental health and child skills, from birth to age 3. We find improved maternal mental health and functioning (0.17 to 0.29 SD), modest but imprecisely estimated improvements in parenting (0.07 to 0.11 SD), and transitory improvements in child socioemotional development (0.06 to 0.39 SD). The intervention had negligible influence on physical health and cognition. Estimates of a skill production function reveal the intervention attenuated the negative association between maternal depression and child outcomes, and narrowed outcome gaps between mothers who were and were not depressed in pregnancy.