This document describes plans for the analysis of follow-up data from the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE) collected when participating children were in kindergarten or first grade. The overarching goal of MIHOPE is to provide information about whether families and children benefit from early childhood home visiting programs—specifically, those funded by the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program—as they operated from 2012 to 2017, and if so, how. The MIECHV Program is administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in collaboration with the Administration for Children and Families (ACF).

The prespecified research questions are:

• Did home visiting affect outcomes that could be improved through direct interactions between parents and home visitors?
   
• Did home visiting affect children’s social-emotional functioning in the home context?
   
• Did home visiting affect children’s social-emotional functioning in school settings?
   
• Did home visiting affect children’s language, early math, and cognitive skills?
   
• Did home visiting affect parent-child interactions?
   
• Did home visiting affect aggression, conflict, violence, and maltreatment?
   
• Did home visiting affect material hardship, employment, education, and income?
   
• Did home visiting affect maternal mental and behavioral health?