New research suggests giving extra cash to low-income mothers can change their infants’ brain development.
“The brain changes speak to the remarkable malleability of the brain, especially early in childhood,” she said.Research has shown that a person’s position in the economic pecking order can have a lasting effect on cognitive development.
While the researchers can’t rule out that differences seen in total brain activity in both groups were due to chance, they did find meaningful differences in the frontal region, linked with learning and thinking skills. Higher-frequency activity was about 20% greater in infants whose families received the larger payments.
The findings build on evidence that cash support can improve outcomes for older children, said co-author, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty, based at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. It’s also the first rigorous evidence of how the payments may affect children in the earliest years of life, she said.The study recruited mothers shortly after childbirth at hospitals in four metropolitan areas: Minneapolis-St. Paul, New Orleans, New York City and Omaha. The women reported an average household income of about $20,000 and were randomly assigned to receive $333 or $20 each month on debit cards.
The larger cash payments in the study were similar to those distributed to low-income families during the pandemic in President Joe Biden’s
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