ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022
The impact of a poverty reduction intervention on infant brain activity.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03593356 (Household Income and Child Development in the First Three Years of Life), which is not on this map. Cited by 127 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Household Income and Child Development in the First Three Years of Life (Phase 1) Household Income and Child Development in the First Years of Life (Phase 2)
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127 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Effects of unconditional cash transfers on family processes and wellbeing among mothers with low incomes.Nature communications · 2025Trial
- Poverty reduction and childhood opportunity moves: A randomized trial of cash transfers to low-income U.S. families with infants.Health & place · 2024Trial
- Effects of a monthly unconditional cash transfer starting at birth on family investments among US families with low income.Nature human behaviour · 2024Trial
- Parenting Practices May Buffer the Impact of Adversity on Epigenetic Age Acceleration Among Young Children With Developmental Delays.Psychological science · 2023Trial
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- Insights Into Patients' Perceptions of Health-Related Social Needs and the Role of the Adult Primary Care Clinic.Journal of primary care & community healthTrial
- Effects of a randomized controlled trial of unconditional cash transfers on epigenetic measures of ageing and cognition in children and mothers.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Social programme receipt and child health, healthcare access and utilisation among low-income US households: a cross-sectional analysis of the National Survey for Child Health.BMJ paediatrics open · 2026Article
- Power struggles: Absolute vs. relative EEG power in developmental neuroscience.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Environmental Exposures Influence Fetal Brain Growth and Risk of Neonatal Brain Injury in Congenital Heart Disease.Pediatric cardiology · 2026Article
- Child opportunity and cognitive development in a clinically referred sample.Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence · 2026Article
- Machine learning algorithm reveals neurodevelopmental signatures of combined family income and neighborhood disadvantage in adolescents.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Associations of neighborhood deprivation and household income during pregnancy on child externalizing and internalizing problems.Development and psychopathology · 2026Article
- Income insufficiency impacts early brain development in infants facing increased psychosocial adversity: A network-based approach.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Structural stressors, neurocognition in reward-related decision making and substance use risk in Puerto Rican early adolescents at two sites: study design.Frontiers in public health · 2026Observational
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Abstract
Early childhood poverty is a risk factor for lower school achievement, reduced earnings, and poorer health, and has been associated with differences in brain structure and function. Whether poverty causes differences in neurodevelopment, or is merely associated with factors that cause such differences, remains unclear. Here, we report estimates of the causal impact of a poverty reduction intervention on brain activity in the first year of life. We draw data from a subsample of the Baby's First Years study, which recruited 1,000 diverse low-income mother-infant dyads. Shortly after giving birth, mothers were randomized to receive either a large or nominal monthly unconditional cash gift. Infant brain activity was assessed at approximately 1 y of age in the child's home, using resting electroencephalography (EEG;
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