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US: Undoing poverty’s negative effect on brain development with cash transfers

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“Kimberly G. Noble, associate professor of neuroscience and education at Columbia University’s Teachers College, has published an article in Nature which summarizes her research background and an upcoming experiment into brain development and poverty. Noble asks whether poverty may affect the development, ‘the size, shape, and functioning,’ of a child’s brain, and whether ‘a cash stipend to parents’ would prevent this kind of damage. Noble here describes the background and methodological underpinnings of a larger experiment not yet begun; the development of which Basic Income News has covered in the past.”

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