Age 4 data from Baby’s First Years Released!
DSDR is excited to announce the release of Age 4 data for Baby's First Years (BFY), New York City, New Orleans, Omaha, and Twin Cities, 2018-2023 (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 4 data collection, collected between July 2022 and August 2023.
Variables in the Age 4 data include information on child\ cognitive, behavioral, and physical development from direct assessments as well as information from mothers about income and labor market participation, child focused expenditures, childcare, parent-child activities, child health and healthcare, economic stress and food insecurity, relationships, and pride in accomplishments.
Common scales used during the Age 4 data collection include the Receptive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test, Minnesota Executive Function, Wechsler Nonverbal Scale of Ability, and The Reading House: A Children’s Book for Emergent Literacy Screening During Well-Child Visits.
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, 2018-2023 study page
Feb 5, 2025