Have you read this from 2023? Cautious optimism for pandemic babies: Jessica Sperber (she/hers) & Dr. Kimberly Noble found amt of time an infant spent during pandemic in 1st year of life was unrelated to language or socioemotional outcomes at 12 or 24 mos #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa.1…

✨New paper co-led w/ Monica Ellwood-Lowe out now! Here we bridge the emerging strength-based science of poverty to developmental cognitive neuroscience, and ultimately towards more humanistic, sensitive, & respectful policies that foster children’s thriving.🪡 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Easily one of my favorite efforts I’ve been a part of! 🧠📑

Such an important effort, led by Eryn Adams, PhD & Dr. Sonya Troller-Renfree. Reviews how cultural considerations around hair density, texture & styling have historically skewed pediatric EEG samples to be less representative, with recs to promote best practices for more inclusive science.

I could not be more proud of this work with Abria & the LEAD Lab UMD team! This is clearly not a problem I could solve on my own, and I'm so fortunate to have a team that prioritizes inclusion at every step of our research.🥰 Now to find more funding to support this hidden work!🤑

This new paper from Lisa A. Gennetian et al. evaluates the impacts of monthly unconditional cash transfers on family investments. Dr. Kimberly Noble Katherine Magnuson Hirokazu Yoshikawa nature.com/articles/s4156…

Congratulations to Rachel Romeo, PhD, CCC-SLP on being the 2024 recipient of the Flux Young Investigator Award

So proud of Jessica Sperber (she/hers), who was awarded an NIH F31! It’s a super exciting project focusing on maternal stress, child epigenetics, and early child development. She’s one to watch, folks!

Recent work demonstrates income/time tradeoffs associated w/ unconditional cash - What about families w/ children, whose development is influenced by both income & time investments? 🧵: new findings from Baby's First Years (BFY), presented at NBER SI this morning by Lisa A. Gennetian

So, households ended up with more income and more available time. How much of these resources was invested in children? The transfers increased expenditure on: Child-specific goods ($67.80) Childcare ($29.41) No statistically significant changes in other HH expenditures

Full paper here: nature.com/articles/s4156… For more on maternal labor supply impacts, see Sauval et al. (2024) in Journal of Public Economics: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… For more on the BFY study: babysfirstyears.com

🎺New pub! We show that low-income moms with poor health move to neighborhoods with more opportunity after receiving unconditional cash transfers. Thanks to the Baby's First Years team! Theresa Osypuk Lisa A. Gennetian Katherine Magnuson Dr. Kimberly Noble Paul Youngmin Yoo @tabruckner authors.elsevier.com/a/1jX6a4pqpj%7…

🎉 Congratulations🎉 Laurel Raffington Laurel Raffington, PhD receives the National Institute of Health NIH R01 Grant. The funded project investigates #epigenetic pathways of socioeconomic disparities in physical and cognitive health across the #lifespan. mpib-berlin.mpg.de/awards/laurel-…

Just published in Journal of Public Economics: "Unconditional cash transfers and maternal employment: Evidence from the Baby’s First Years study" By María Sauval, Lisa A. Gennetian, Katherine Magnuson, Dr. Kimberly Noble, Hirokazu Yoshikawa sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Thankful to receive this #R01 with my co-PI Kathryn Paige Harden and our brilliant co-Is Dr. Kimberly Noble, Binder Lab, Elliot Tucker-Drob, Colter Mitchell, Dan Notterman 🤗