Age 3 Data from Baby’s First Years Released!
DSDR is excited to announce the release of Age 3 data for Baby's First Years (BFY), New York City, New Orleans, Omaha, and Twin Cities, 2018-2020 (ICPSR 37871).
The Baby's First Years (BFY) project is a randomized controlled trial that estimates the causal impacts of unconditional cash gift payments on the cognitive, socio-emotional, and brain development of infants and toddlers in low-income U.S. families. Mothers of infants with incomes below the federal poverty line from four diverse U.S. communities (New York City, NY; New Orleans, LA; Omaha, NE; and Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN) were recruited after giving birth at one of twelve hospitals across the four study sites between May 2018 and June 2019. Quantitative data are obtained at seven points: baseline after child is born, at around one year old, two years old, three, four, six, and eight years old. This release includes data and related materials from the Age 3 data collection, collected between July 2021 and July 2022.
Variables in the Age 3 data include information on the mother-father relationship, members of the household, neighborhood safety, maternal health, use of public assistance, family income and net worth, childcare, child health and social-emotional development, as well as child, mother, and father demographics.
New scales available with this release include the Child Behavior Checklist Achenbach and Ruffle, 2000) and Parents’ Evaluation of Developmental Status (Glascoe, 1997).
Future waves of BFY data are planned for release through DSDR.
Access the Baby’s First Years (BFY), New York City, New Orleans, Omaha, and Twin Cities, 2018-2020 study page.
Jan 16, 2024