Jessica F Sperber, Lisa A Gennetian, Emma R Hart, Alicia Kunin-Batson, Katherine Magnuson, Greg J Duncan, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Nathan A Fox, Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Kimberly G Noble
IMPORTANCE: Children experiencing poverty are more likely to experience worse health outcomes, including injury, chronic illness, worse nutrition, and poorer sleep. The extent to which poverty reduction improves these outcomes is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of a 3-year, monthly unconditional cash transfer on health, nutrition, sleep, and health care utilization among children experiencing poverty who were healthy at birth. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This longitudinal randomized clinical trial recruited 1000 mother-infant dyads between May 2018 and June 2019...
September 5, 2023: JAMA Network Open