Idiots in Science: Cash Aid to Poor Mothers Increases Brain Activity in Babies, Study Finds

The research could have policy implications as President Biden pushes to revive his proposal to expand the child tax credit.

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A study that provided poor mothers with cash stipends for the first year of their children’s lives appears to have changed the babies’ brain activity in ways associated with stronger cognitive development, a finding with potential implications for safety net policy.

The differences were modest — researchers likened them in statistical magnitude to moving to the 75th position in a line of 100 from the 81st — and it remains to be seen if changes in brain patterns will translate to higher skills, as other research offers reason to expect.

Still, evidence that a single year of subsidies could alter something as profound as brain functioning highlights the role that money may play in child development and comes as President Biden is pushing for a much larger program of subsidies for families with children.

“This is a big scientific finding,” said Martha J. Farah, a neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania, who conducted a review of the study for the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, where it was published on Monday. “It’s proof that just giving the families more money, even a modest amount of more money, leads to better brain development.”

.https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/us/politics/child-tax-credit-brain-function.html

Give them Monopoly money.

Or how about just a promissory note payable in 150 years? Will that change their brain too?

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Idiots in Science: Cash Aid to Poor Mothers Increases Brain Activity in Babies, Study Finds

Idiots in Science: Cash Aid to Poor Mothers Increases Brain Activity in Babies, Study Finds

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