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Experimental Evidence on Long-run and Intergenerational Impacts of Child Health Investments in the Kenya Life Panel Survey (KLPS)

Award Number: R01HD108281
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/30/2022
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 08/31/2027

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Experimental Evidence on Long-run and Intergenerational Impacts of Child Health Investments in the Kenya Life Panel Survey (KLPS) - Project Summary/Abstract This project will study the long-term effects of a child health program on recipients’ living standards, labor supply, health, marriage and fertility and other life outcomes. The project extends a longitudinal (panel) dataset of participants in a randomized health intervention (primary school-based deworming) when they were 8-15 years old. A novel aspect of the project is its intergenerational linkages: the dataset, the Kenya Life Panel Survey (KLPS), contains detailed information on health, nutritional, educational, demographic, and labor market outcomes for over 6,500 Kenyans during 1998-2021, and the health, behavioral and cognitive development of their 3-9 year old children (collected 2018-2021). The resulting 28-year longitudinal dataset will allow the study team to exploit experimental variation to estimate the long-run and intergenerational impacts of a child health intervention. Critically, the most recent KLPS round had an effective survey rate of 84% among adults 20 years after the start of the deworming program, with balance across treatment arms, alleviating leading concerns about differential attrition and bias. We will make use of the panel data structure to estimate the effects of major parental life events and shocks -- such as migration, marital separation, job loss -- on the cognitive and development outcomes of their children. Having access to repeated measures of both parents and children over time is unusual in any context but especially in low and middle income countries (LMICs), and we aim to create the premier intergenerational longitudinal dataset in Sub-Saharan Africa. The matched parent-child data will also allow us to estimate the correlation between performance on the same cognitive tests taken by parents (when they were in primary school) and their own school-age children. We propose to collect KLPS Round 5 with 6,500 adult survey respondents (aged 35-43) and a second round of surveys and assessments with over 5,000 of their children (aged 6-13). The KLPS sample contains individuals who participated in the Primary School Deworming Program (PSDP) mentioned above, and some who participated in an unconditional cash grant program. Previous research shows that deworming had substantial positive impacts on the health, schooling, living standards, urban residence and earnings of beneficiaries 10-20 years later; the cash grant program had positive short-run impacts on earnings. We also implemented two parent-child interventions (reading promotion and sleep promotion), and will estimate the medium-run (4-5 year) impacts of these interventions on child learning and development. The randomized design of all of these interventions addresses the key methodological problem of confounding. Causal long-run effects of health on life outcomes have rarely been demonstrated due to the near absence of experimental variation in combination with detailed longitudinal data on recipients and children. Accurate information on long-term direct and intergenerational impacts is essential for assessing the cost-effectiveness of child health programs.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $587,836 )
2025	2025	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE	1608 4TH ST STE 201	BERKELEY	CA	94710	ALAMEDA	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	4	8/26/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$587,836
														Subtotal = $587,836

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $588,798 )
2024	2024	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE	1608 4TH ST STE 201	BERKELEY	CA	94710	ALAMEDA	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	3	8/26/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$588,798
														Subtotal = $588,798

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $631,509 )
2023	2023	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE	1608 4TH ST STE 201	BERKELEY	CA	94710	ALAMEDA	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	002	2	9/9/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$631,509
2023	2022	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE	1608 4TH ST STE 201	BERKELEY	CA	94710	ALAMEDA	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	1	11/17/2022	NEW	$0
2023	2022	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE	1608 4TH ST STE 201	BERKELEY	CA	94710	ALAMEDA	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	001	1	12/2/2022	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $631,509

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $669,465 )
2022	2022	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE	1608 4TH ST STE 201	BERKELEY	CA	94710	ALAMEDA	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	1	9/23/2022	NEW	$669,465
														Subtotal = $669,465

Grand Total All Awards = $2,477,608

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Experimental Evidence on Long-run and Intergenerational Impacts of Child Health Investments in the Kenya Life Panel Survey (KLPS)

Award Number: R01HD108281

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/30/2022

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 08/31/2027

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