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Study of Baby's First Years Unconditional Cash Transfer
Study quality: High
Study publications:
Gennetian, Lisa, Greg Duncan, Nathan A. Fox, Katherine Magnuson, Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Kimberly G. Noble, and Hirokazu Yoshikawa (2022). Unconditional cash and family investments in infants: Evidence from a large-scale cash transfer experiment in the U.S., NBER Working Paper 30379. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3386/w30379.
Gennetian, Lisa, Greg Duncan, Nathan Fox, Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Katherine Magnuson, Kimberly G. Noble, Hirokazu Yoshikawa (2024). Effects of a monthly unconditional cash transfer starting at birth on family investments among US families with low income [Supplementary information], Nature and Human Behavior 8: 1514-1529. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01915-7
Gennetian, Lisa, Greg Duncan, Nathan Fox, Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Katherine Magnuson, Kimberly G. Noble, Hirokazu Yoshikawa (2024). Effects of a monthly unconditional cash transfer starting at birth on family investments among US families with low income, Nature and Human Behavior 8: 1514-1529. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01915-7
Noble, Kimberly G., Katherine Magnuson, Lisa A. Gennetian, Greg J. Duncan, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Nathan A. Fox, and Sarah Halpern-Meekin (2021). Baby's First Years: Design of a randomized controlled trial of poverty reduction in the U.S., Pedatrics 148(4): Article e2020049702. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2020-049072
Sauval, Maria, Greg Duncan, Lisa Gennetian, Katherine Magnuson, Nathan Fox, Kimberly Noble, Hirokazu Yoshikawa (2022). Unconditional cash transfers and maternal employment: Evidence from the Baby's First Years Study, [Working paper], Available at: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4297310
Stilwell, Laura, Maritza Morales-Gracia, Katherine Magnuson, Lisa A. Gennetian, Maria Sauval, Nathan A. Fox, Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Kimberly G. Noble (2024). Unconditional cash and breastfeeding, child care, and maternal employment among families with young children residing in poverty, Social Services Review 98(2): 260-292. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1086/729364.