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
Publications, by date of publication
Working Papers and Preprints
Gennetian, Lisa A. and Duncan, Greg and Fox, Nathan and Magnuson, Katherine and Halpern-Meekin, Sarah and Noble, Kimberly and Yoshikawa, Hirokazu, Unconditional Cash and Family Investments in Infants: Evidence from a Large-Scale Cash Transfer Experiment in the U.S (August 2022). NBER Working Paper No. w30379, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4203053 [PDF]
Magnuson, K., Yoo, P., Duncan, G., Yoshikawa, H., Trang, K., Gennetian, L., Halpern-Meekin, Sarah and Fox, Nathan and Noble, Kimberly, Can a Poverty Reduction Intervention Reduce Family Stress Among Families with Infants? An Experimental Analysis. (May 6, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4188131 [PDF]
Published Papers
Yoo, P.Y., Duncan, G.J., Magnuson, K., Fox, N. A., Yoshikawa, H., Halpern‑Meekin, S., & Noble, K.N. (2022). Unconditional cash transfers and maternal substance use: findings from a randomized control trial of low-income mothers with infants in the U.S. BMC Public Health. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-12989-1 [PDF]
Troller-Renfree, S., Hart, E., Sperber, J., Fox, N., & Noble, K. (2022). Associations among stress and language and socioemotional development in a low-income sample. Development and Psychopathology, 1-9. doi:10.1017/S0954579421001759 [PDF]
Troller-Renfree, S.V., Costanzo, M.A., Duncan, G.J., Magnuson, K.A., Gennetian, L.A., Yoshikawa, H., Fox, N.A., Halpern-Meekin, S, and Noble, K.G. (2022). The impact of a poverty reduction intervention on infant brain activity. Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. doi:10.1073/pnas.2115649119 [PDF]
Noble, K.G., Magnuson, K.A., Gennetian, L.A., Duncan, G.J., Yoshikawa, H., Fox, N.A., Halpern-Meekin, S. (2021). Baby’s First Years: Design of a Randomized Controlled Trial of Poverty Reduction in the United States. Pediatrics. doi: 10.1542/peds.2020-049702 [PDF]
Troller-Renfree, S.V., Morales, S., Leach, S.C., Bowers, M.E., Debnath, R., Fifer, W.P., Fox, N.A., & Noble, K.G. (2021). Feasibility of Assessing Brain Activity using Mobile, In-home Collection of Electroencephalography: Theory, Methods, and Analysis. Developmental Psychobiology doi:10.1002/dev.22128 [PDF]
Rojas, N.M., Yoshikawa, H., Gennetian, L., Rangel,M.L., Melvin, S., Noble, K., Duncan, G., Magunson, K. (2020) Exploring the experiences and dynamics of an unconditional cash transfer for low-income mothers: A mixed-methods study, Journal of Children and Poverty. doi:10.1080/10796126.2019.1704161 [PDF]