ArticleThe Social service review2024
Unconditional Cash and Breastfeeding, Child Care, and Maternal Employment among Families with Young Children Residing in Poverty.
Article in The Social service review, 2024. 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 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind 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)
Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Associations Between Unconditional Cash Transfers and Postpartum Outcomes in the United States : A Systematic Review.Annals of internal medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of a monthly unconditional cash transfer starting at birth on family investments among US families with low income.Nature human behaviour · 2024Trial
- "Not an option": How Mothers with Limited Incomes View Barriers to Child Care Use for Infants and Toddlers.Children and youth services review · 2026Article
- Social Determinants of Health, the developing brain, and risk and resilience for psychopathology.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Review
- Social Determinants of Health and Early Brain Development.Pediatric clinics of North America · 2025Review
- Unconditional Cash Transfers and Maternal Employment: Evidence from the Baby's First Years Study.Journal of public economics · 2024Article
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9 authors.
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Abstract
Poverty interferes with parents' breastfeeding, child-care, and employment options and ability to meet their parenting goals. This study-the first randomized controlled trial of early childhood poverty reduction in the United States-investigates how increased economic resources affect 1,000 low-income US mothers' breastfeeding, child-care, and employment practices and the ability to meet their intentions for these practices in the first year of their infant's life. The likelihood and length of breastfeeding, use of nonparental child care, and maternal employment did not statistically differ among mothers who received a high ($333) or low ($20) monthly unconditional cash gift. The higher monthly cash gift, however, delayed the starting age of child care by almost 1 month and increased mothers' ability to meet their breastfeeding intentions reported at birth.
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