What have we learned about direct cash and it’s relationships with pre and post natal outcomes for moms and babies?

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Program Findings

Preliminary Research Findings: The Bridge Project (2024)

Unconditional Cash and Breastfeeding, Child Care, and Maternal Employment among Families with Young Children Residing in Poverty: Baby’s First Years (2024)

Mental health and sleep quality of low-income mothers of one-year-olds during the COVID-19 pandemic: Baby’s First Years (2024)

Estimating the Effect of a Universal Cash Transfer on Birth Outcomes (2022)

Seizing the Opportunity of Cash to Pursue Higher Education: The Bridge Project (2024)

Monthly unconditional income supplements starting at birth: Experiences among mothers of young children with low incomes in the U.S: Baby’s First Years (2024)

Effects of a monthly unconditional cash transfer starting at birth on family investments among US families with low income: Baby’s First Years (2024)

The impact of poverty reduction intervention on infant brain activity: Baby’s First Years (2024)

Associations between maternal stress and infant resting brain activity among families residing in poverty in the U.S: Baby’s First Years (2023)

Cash transfers: what does the evidence say?: ODI (2016)