Trial reportNature human behaviour2024
Effects of a monthly unconditional cash transfer starting at birth on family investments among US families with low income.
Trial report in Nature human behaviour, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 14 papers.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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)
Advancing Health Equity Via Basic Income + Early Childhood Systems Integration: An RCT of the Baby Bonus Program
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effects of a randomized controlled trial of unconditional cash transfers on epigenetic measures of ageing and cognition in children and mothers.Nature human behaviour · 2026Trial
- Effects of unconditional cash transfers on family processes and wellbeing among mothers with low incomes.Nature communications · 2025Trial
- "Not an option": How Mothers with Limited Incomes View Barriers to Child Care Use for Infants and Toddlers.Children and youth services review · 2026Article
- "I teach her at home": Home learning environments amid resource constraints.Family relations · 2026Article
- Social mobility and parenting: Testing associations in a prospective longitudinal cohort study.Child development · 2026Article
- Social Determinants of Health, the developing brain, and risk and resilience for psychopathology.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Review
- "When I Can Make Them Smile": Cash Transfers and the Joys of Mothering in the Context of Poverty.Journal of policy analysis and management : [the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management] · 2026Article
- Social Determinants of Health and Early Brain Development.Pediatric clinics of North America · 2025Review
- How poverty shapes children's home, neighborhood, and school environments: An integrative conceptual framework and review.The American psychologist · 2025Article
- A framework and policy case for black reparations to support child well-being in the USA.Nature human behaviour · 2025Review
- The effect of unconditional cash transfers on maternal assessments of children's early language and socioemotional development: Experimental evidence from U.S. families residing in poverty.Developmental psychology · 2024Article
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- Handing Money to the Poor Is Never Enough: The Impact of Marginalization-Related Diminished Returns.Global journal of epidemiology and infectious disease · 2024Article
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Abstract
How does unconditional income for families in poverty affect parental investments for their young children? Mothers in four US metropolitan areas were randomized to receive a monthly unconditional cash transfer of either $333 per month (high) or $20 per month (low) for the first several years after childbirth. During the first 3 years, high-cash gift households spent more money on child-specific goods and more time on child-specific early learning activities than the low-cash gift group. Few changes were evident in other core household expenditures. Compared with low-cash gift families, high-cash gift families reported lower rates of public benefit receipt and fewer were residing in poverty, although mean income and wealth remain low for the majority of families by year 3. No statistically significant differences were evident in mothers' participation in paid work, children's time in childcare or mothers' subjective wellbeing.
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