{"id":78873,"date":"2018-05-18T04:22:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T11:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/large-study-to-study-impact-on-early-brain-development-of-financial-assistance-to-low-income-mothers"},"modified":"2018-05-18T04:22:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T11:22:14","slug":"large-study-to-study-impact-on-early-brain-development-of-financial-assistance-to-low-income-mothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/large-study-to-study-impact-on-early-brain-development-of-financial-assistance-to-low-income-mothers","title":{"rendered":"Large study to study impact on early brain development of financial assistance to low-income mothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/large-study-to-study-impact-on-early-brain-development-of-financial-assistance-to-low-income-mothers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Important new study to track \u2014 \u201cThe team will start recruiting the first of 1,000 low-income mothers next week\u2026Of that 1,000, roughly half will be randomly selected to receive an unconditional $333 a month, while the others will form a control group that will receive $20. The money, which is completely unconditional, will be loaded onto a pre-paid debit card every month for 40 months, on the date of the child\u2019s birthday. The hypothesis is that this steady stream of payments will make a positive difference in the cognitive and emotional development of the children whose mothers receive it\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>___ Does growing up poor harm brain development? (The Economist): \u201cPlenty of evidence suggests that growing up poor, living through these kinds of scrapes, has a detrimental impact on child development. Children from rich families tend to have better language and memory skills than those from poor families. More.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/sharpbrains.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/18\/large-study-to-study-impact-on-early-brain-development-of-financial-assistance-to-low-income-mothers\/\">https:\/\/sharpbrains.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/18\/large-study-to-study...e-mothers\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Important new study to track \u2014 \u201cThe team will start recruiting the first of 1,000 low-income mothers next week\u2026Of that 1,000, roughly half will be randomly selected to receive an unconditional $333 a month, while the others will form a control group that will receive $20. The money, which is completely unconditional, will be loaded [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}