Baby's First Years
The first study in the United States to assess the impact of poverty reduction on family life and infant and toddlers’ cognitive, emotional, and brain development
News and media
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Mississippi program shows how giving mothers guaranteed income helps children
By: Timothy Pratt
November 7, 2023
Mississippi program shows how giving mothers guaranteed income helps children
By: Timothy Pratt
November 7, 2023
This Is Your Brain on Poverty: Omaha Is One Site in Nationwide Study
By Leah Cates
September 6th, 2022
Policies to reduce child poverty can help in their growth and development, study finds
By PBS NewsHour
March 26th, 2022
Behind the scenes with researchers from the Baby’s First Years study
By Lisa Gennetian, Kimberly Noble, Danica Swiggart
February 22nd, 2022
By Pascale Santi
February 2nd, 2022
Cash Aid to Poor Mothers Increases Brain Activity in Babies, Study Finds
January 24th, 2022
Study on child brain activity another reason for congressional activity on child tax credit
January 27th, 2022
Cash support for low-income families directly affects baby brains
By Duke University
January 27th, 2022
Money given to low-income mothers affects their infants’ brain activity, a study shows
January 26th, 2022
By Linda Jacobson
January 26th, 2022
January 25th, 2022
Press Play with Madeleine Brand: Free cash is linked to babies’ brain development, study finds
Podcast
Guest: Greg Duncan (Co-PI)
Written by Amy TA, produced by Bennett Purser
January 25th, 2022
Study: Giving Cash To Low-Income Moms May Aid Babies' Brain Development
Morgan Brinlee
January 25th, 2022
Giving Cash To Low-Income Families Helps Babies' Brain Activity: Report
Cherranda Smith
January 25th, 2022
Cash benefits to low-income families may aid babies’ cognitive development
By Tahra Jirari & Ed Prestera
January 25th, 2022
By UMD - College of Education
January 25th, 2022
Giving low-income families cash can help babies’ brain activity
January 24th, 2022
Giving Moms Money Can Boost Babies’ Brain Activity, Study Finds
January 24th, 2022
Guaranteed Income Is Linked to Higher Brain Activity in Infants in New Study
By Ella Ceron
January 24th, 2022
When New Orleans moms in poverty got an extra $333 a month, their children benefited, study says
January 24th, 2022
Study shows that direct cash payments to families had meaningful impact on newborns’ brain activity
By Neal Freyman
January 24th, 2022
Do Cash Gifts for Mothers in Poverty Help Kids' Early Brain Activity?
By Lei Lei Wu January 24th, 2022
Giving low-income US families $4000 a year boosts child brain activity
January 24th, 2022
Cash support for low-income families impacts infant brain activity
January 24th, 2022
Le fait de donner de l’argent aux parents peut-il aider au développement du cerveau des bébés ?
January 24th, 2022
January 24th, 2022
Giving low-income families cash can help babies’ brain activity
By Kaitlin Sullivan
January 24th, 2022
New Study: Giving Mothers Cash Improves Children’s Brain Development
By Bryce Covert
January 24th, 2022
Study Suggests Giving Cash Payments to Low-Income Mothers Could Help Brain Development in Babies
By Brenton Blanchet
January 24th, 2022
This guaranteed income pilot gives low-income New York mothers $1,000 a month
By Talib Visram
January 24th, 2022
Why Does the Richest Country in the World Have So Many Poor Kids? (Ep. 475)
By Stephen J. Dubner
Produced by Mary Diduch
September 15, 2021
Trauma Disrupts Children’s Brains — but Researchers Are Finding New Ways Help Them Heal
September 24, 2020
July 11, 2020
Low-Income Moms In Four U.S. Cities Are Being Paid $4,000 A Year, With No Strings Attached
By Leslie Albrecht
June 8, 2019
100 Low-Income NYC Moms Will Get $13,320 To Participate In Child Development Study
By Summer Delaney
May 9, 2019
By Tom Kertscher
May 8, 2019
Can an Extra $333 a Month Improve a Baby’s Brain? A Research Team Wants to Know
By Leslie Brody
April 29, 2019
Baby's First Years Lead Neuroscientist, Dr. Kimberly Noble, Discusses The Study's Background
April 2, 2019
The Neuroscience of Inequality: Does Poverty Show Up In Children’s Brains
By Mike Mariani
July 13, 2017
Comment La Pauvrete Maltreaite Le Cerveau. [How Poverty Mistreats The Brain]
By Sandrine Cabut & Pascale Santi
March 13, 2017
New Brain Science Shows Poor Kids Have Smaller Brains than Affluent Kids
By Lyndsey Layton
April 15, 2015
Live Interview (20:20-22:55)
March 31, 2015
Brain Development in Children could be Affected by Poverty, Study Shows
By Ian Sample
March 30, 2015